Making soap from melt & pour soap base is an incredibly simple, fast and safe process that even a child can do. Also, kids love to make soap from a soap base because the result is bright, beautiful and can be used right away!

However, this fun hobby is not just for kids! Making soap from a soap base is a vast field for creativity!

How to make handmade soap from a soap base? Very simple!

1. Choose a soap base – clear or white. If you make clear soaps with herbs, different colored soap pieces, glitters or micas, choose our clear or amber soap base. For opaque soaps, choose a white or soap base with shea butter.

2. Cut the soap base into cubes with a knife.

3. Melt the soap base in the microwave at 10-15 second intervals or in a water bath until the soap base is completely melted, not allowing it to boil.

4. If you want the soap to have a milder effect on the skin, you can add a carrier oil (like avocado oil or other, no more than half a teaspoon per 100 grams of base, or 1 to 3%) to the melted base. The soap base with shea butter contains 3% oil, so there is no need to add base oils when using this base.

5. Add colorant (a couple of drops) and fragrance 1-3% or up to 10-30 drops to 100 grams of soap base or natural essential oil. Essential oils need to be added more than fragrances (up to 5% or a teaspoon per 100 grams of base) because they do not contain fixing and odor-enhancing substances. When preparing clear soaps, choose water-soluble dyes to prevent the base from losing transparency. The micas and glitters also look wonderful in the transparent soap. Any dyes and pigments can be used for opaque soaps. Micas and glitters on a white base look less impressive.

6. Pour the base into the soap mold. If you pour several different layers of soap into the mold or use multicolored inserts from different soap pieces, we recommend using liquid pigments and micas, as the color of water-soluble dyes migrates over time (a week or more) into an adjacent layer, creating a blurred line between layers. If, as a creative idea, you don’t want the colored layers of the soap to migrate, use liquid pigments and micas.

7. As soon as the soap hardens completely (1-2 hours), remove it from the mold and you can use it immediately!