One last chance to make some fabulous stocking stuffers and gifts for Christmas.
Glycerin “melt & pour” soap is a great way for beginners to experience the wonderful world of soap making. Because the soap base is pre-made for you, melt & pour soap has several advantages over traditional cold process soaping for beginners. An added bonus is that you do not have to handle any lye. This soap method is easy in concept:
"Melt and pour soap making is simply choosing your soap base, cutting it into pieces to melt. Add color and fragrance and pour into molds."
However, these are some issues we will address, and we bet you didn't even know they were issues.
Melting your base correctly so it's not too hot and doesn't cool on you too quickly. Each base has a different melting point
Making embeds (those cute shapes people put into their soaps). Making sure you don't melt them either! Making sure embeds stick in your soap. Ensuring you put the embeds in the correct way!
Find out why filling a mold with water to find out how much soap it can hold, doesn't quite work.
You will get lots of tips and tricks and some experience to ensure your day of melt and pour soap making is a success.