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Basic melt and pour soap
Making soap at home is a practical and satisfying skill to learn. Whether you'd like a natural alternative to store-bought soap, or you're a crafty person looking for a new creative venture, making soap is fun and not too difficult.
Melt and pour soap is basically melting a pre-made soap base and then pouring it into a soap mold, hence the name! Although some soapers consider using this method as ‘cheating’, I find that there are some techniques where melt and pour is the more suitable soap than cold process soap.
1. Cut up the soap base in small cubes and add them to the heat proof glass jug.
In the past few years, many kinds of melt and pour soap bases have become available, such as goats milk, olive oil, shea butter, honey, and even a wobbly jelly-like soap base!
Cut up the required amount of melt and pour soap base into small cubes and place them in a heat proof glass jug .
2. In short 20-30 second bursts, melt the soap base in your microwave on your highest setting.
The technique of melting and pouring the pre-made soap is very simple. Be careful your soap does not boil! If you don’t have a microwave, you can melt the soap on the stove using the double boiler method (placing one smaller pot inside a bigger pot of water).
3. Once the soap is completely melted, add your fragrance and colour and mix well.
You can use essential oils or skin-friendly fragrances. To colour your soap, you can use special soap dyes or powders, micas, or liquid food colouring. Note that colours added to a white soap base will become pastel coloured. To achieve bright vivid colours, you will need to use a clear soap base. And if you find your soap has hardened in the meantime, just pop it back into the microwave again for another 20 seconds.
4, Carefully pour the soap into your soap mold and let it harden before removing the soaps from the molds.
If there are any bubbles on the surface, you can disperse them by spritzing some isopropyl alcohol (available from pharmacies) on it. Leave the soap to harden fully before removing from the mold.
Because melt and pour soap contains glycerin, a humectant, which attracts moisture, it is important to wrap your soaps in glad wrap as soon as they have cooled down and hardened.
Finished soap
Arby-1204
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2024
This mold produces a nice looking shellAbout 1 oz if you are using it for soap
Maryland
Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2023
I've made all my own soaps for years. I love all natural soaps and having essential oils that promote healing used to scent my soap. When I started it was impossible to find useable, practical molds. Since silicone molds became available for baking, i found them perfect for soap molds. I like this one because it makes perfect travel sized hand soaps. Love them as guest soaps in our beach house.
Rach
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2023
Finally got around to making soap and the shapes are lovey but the red and green molds transferred some color onto the soap which is pretty disappointing.
Alfred
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2023
They keep the same shape and durability as the first day and the quality of the soap when I take it out of this mold is like polished. Everybody is happy with this shells and I keep making more and more. Bought two additional ones some weeks ago.
April
Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2022
This mold makes the cutest soaps. Great for samples, beauty bars, guest soaps, etc
Ann
Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2021
I made salt dough shells for a summer camp class to paint and this was perfect!
Master Leon
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2021
I love the shape, texture and depth of these molds. They're absolutely perfect for my project!
ohblahdi
Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2019
I like the size of these shells..just right for a soap dish display. The shells are large sized and about as thick as a real sea shell. The details are excellent and they look wonderful in a seaside or beach decor. The mold works great and I have found that X-Haibei molds are of good quality and I use them often for my soap-making projects.
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