HOW TO MAKE HANDMADE SOAP

Once you have prepared all the equipments and selected the recipe. It's time to start making your melt and pour soap.

Process to make melt and pour soap step by step...

1. To start making melt and pour soap. The first step is weight & cut the melt and pour soap base. The weight depends on your recipe and your mold.

2. Melt the soap base you have weighted. By using hot plate or microwave. If you use microwave to melt the base , wrap the container first before starting the microwave - to protect the soap base from drying out when it is being heated.

3. Add essential Oil and fragrance of your recipe to the completely melted soap base...gently stir.
Tips : A good amount of fragrance is .4 ounce of fragrance per pound of soap. (Or you can use about 2-3% per weight of the soap.)

4. Then add color to the Melted Soap Base..gently stir.
Note: Ensure that you're using soap-safe dyes. If the supplier uncertain that they are soap-safe or not, avoid to use them.

5. Continue stir until all ingredients mixed well. Beware! , just gently stir - if you stir too hard the soap mixture will have a lot of bubbles in it. If this problem occured , use the light spritz of rubbing alcohol from a spray bottle to gets rid of these bubbles.

6. Pour the completely mixed melted soap mixture into the mold...beware again! - Slowly pour the soap into the mold to avoid bubbles occured in soap. Once you have poured all the soap mixture into the mold, after that about 2-3 hours , it's ready to unmold your soap. Congratulation!!! It's finished!!!

To make you more clearly understand about the process , watch this melt and pour soap making video :