Site Meter Wax and Bubbles » Blog Archive » Making (Melt & Pour) Soaps

Making (Melt & Pour) Soaps

by

soap.jpgHere’s some basic recipes on how to make soaps. Most of the soap on the market contains chemicals and colors that aren’t good for your skin or your body. Making them at home is a great way to bypass all of those harmful ingredients.

• Cirtus Beeswax Soap:

4 ounces (114 grams) glycerin soap base (available at any healthfood store)
10 drops grapefruit essential oil
1 teaspoon beeswax

How to:

Melt glycerin over low heat in a double boiler or microwave. Add beeswax and remove from heat. Stir until wax is melted. Add essential oil. Stir and pour into mold.
The trick to glycerin when using melt and pour soaps is to keep the heat as low as possible. Too much heat will cause a mushy or beaded appearance after a very short storage time. Keep glycerin soaps sealed in plastic to keep the glycerin from attracting moisture from the air.

• Lavender Soap:

2 cups glycerin soap
1/2 cup dried lavender blooms (ground up in a food processor)
7 drops lavender essential oil

How to:

Melt glycerin in double boiler or slowly in microwave. Add lavender bloomks, stir until slightly cooled. Add essential oil. Pour into molds. Cool.

• Green Tea Chammomile Soap:

2 cups glycerin soap base
1 tablespoon powdered chamomile
1 tablespoon glycerin or aloe vera
3 tea bags of green tea

How to:

Melt glycerin base in double boiler on low heat. Blend the green tea, tear open the bag and combine with glycerin or aloe. Stir this mixture into melted glycerin. Pour into small tupperware style containers and leave uncovered until cool.

**Marlee Matlin To Guest-Star on Nip/Tuck and Robyn Charles over at Watching Showtime has the details. Read about it here.**
______________________________________________________________
WAX AND BUBBLES PRODUCT SHOWCASE:

content_bottom_vday.gif General Wax & Candle Company has been providing quality candles since 1949. Their origins are in institutional sales such as restaurants and churches. These institutions burn millions of candles per year and always insist on the best quality. Many insist on using only General Wax candles. They pride themselves in creating the best burning candles in the industry.


Leave a Reply


About Wax and Bubbles

Wax and Bubbles is your oasis for candle and soap making. Create luxurious items for your own home, or make beautiful gifts for every occasion. Find out about new trends, innovative designs, where to find supplies, how to package and sell your soap and candles, and discover oodles of recipes. Whether you're a total newbie or an experienced crafter, Wax and Bubbles is the perfect place to begin!

Wax and Bubbles Author(s)

Crafts & Hobbies Channel Posts

  • Playing with Hearts
    Sometimes playing with hearts leads to playing with fire . . . Lessa writes about two (essentially) children who played with fire . . . which led to the inevitable result of a third life being [...]
  • Make your own Cranberry Body Polish
    What you will need: 1 cup purees cranberries 1 cup body lotion or carrier oil such as jojoba, olive or even grape seed oil 1 cup sugar-organic brown sugar without molasses or organic white [...]
  • Another heart pattern
    Yeah, I kind of got away from that, didn't I? I still have a few more to share with you, so will get another one here. This is for some of you . . . maybe not all. It is designed around a photo [...]
  • Tired Wrists
    I have been really pushing it - between Tuesday and Thursday this week I knit seven cloths! Yeah, that is a lot of knitting even by MY calculations. At this rate, I hope to have all 36 cloths for the [...]
  • Look Fabulous with Oraia
    Here at Wax and Bubbles I have been posting a lot of skin care products lately that can help restore and help balance out your skin's problem issues. The one thing I have found through all of these [...]
  • Try something from PCA Skin for Free
    PCA Skin is wanting your to try a free trail of their brightening therapy with TrueTone. The brightening therapy helps to correct hyper pigmentation and helps control your proper pigment in the [...]
  • Rhonda Allison Skin Peels
    Rhonda Allison's skin peels are peels that are actually reversing the signs of aging and showing the softer more elegant side of your skin. It's similar to peeling the skin from an apple and [...]
  • Soldering your stained glass project
    It's hard to believe but I'm nearly done with my stained glass project now. It's been a really great class that I've very much enjoyed. One more class and we'll be done! This past week we [...]
  • Pine Cone Bird Feeder
    February is Bird Feeder Month. Birds needs extra food this time of the year as they get ready for spring. There are always bird out on the lawn in the morning hours. So we know there are several [...]
  • Friday Roundy Uppy: Dinosaucers Should Be a Movie
    Item: Just to wrap things up, the contest winners of the Facebook/Comment contest have been notified. So sorry if you didn't win, hopefully I can give out free stuff soon. Seriously, it's like an [...]

Hot Off The Press


Warning: Unknown: write failed: No space left on device (28) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct () in Unknown on line 0