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Honey & Goats Milk Soap
A cold process soapmaker gave me this soap idea. I instantly fell in love with it and set out to make it work with melt and pour soap. I hope you like it too!
Ingredients
2 lb Creamy Goats Milk Soap
3/4 lb Sweetened Honey Soap
Crafter's Choice 24 Karat Liquid Sparkle Gold
2 1/2 Tbs Honey & Shea Type FO
Crafter's Choice Short Loaf Mold
Bubblewrap (with un-popped bubbles)
Directions
Melt honey soap and fragrance with 1 tablespoon of fragrance. Add gold color until desired level of sparkle is achieved. Pour a small amount of soap in the bottom of your mold. Allow to cool until just warm but still liquid. Place bubblewrap on top of this soap. As the soap hardens, the bubblewrap will stick to it. This is good because it provides the "glue" for the bubblewrap and soap...without this, your bubblewrap will float in your loaf of soap.
Pour remaining honey soap on top of bubble wrap. While cooling, melt goat milk soap and add remaining fragrance. Once the honey soap is ready for the next layer (you can press your finger into the soap but it is not yet completely hard), heavily spritz the honey soap with rubbing alcohol (the rubbing alcohol is what causes your layers to stick together). Pour your goat milk soap into the mold. Allow to completely cool for at least 4 hours. Unmold as usual.
Once loaf is unmolded, remove bubblewrap from loaf. Slice the loaf and package as desired. In our picture, we have sliced the loaf into very thick slices using our straight soap cutter. We then cut those slices in half. I would recommend wrapping in cello wrap and then making a gift tag and tie with natural raffia.
This soap would make a great gift set with out Goats Milk & Honey Lotion!
Wishing You Much Success!
Debbie May
http://www.wholesalesuppliesplus.com/
1-800-359-0944
5 comments:
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You want to put a small layer of soap down first...then the bubble wrap. The soap will stick to the bubble wrap and hold it down. If you do not do this....the bubble wrap will float in the first layer of soap.
If this doesn't make sense..please calll us at 1-800-359-0944 and Sue or Debbie May can walk you through it.
Debbie
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sounds like the bubble wrap stays in the middle of the soap - that would be quite the experience when washing :) *pop* *pop*
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That would be quite an experience!
You peel the bubble wrap off of the loaf prior to slicing.
Since I have had many calls and emails about this specific soap, I will make a movie of this process after the holiday break.
Merry Christmas!
Debbie
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Hi Debbie...made the soap and it turned out GREAT!...finally understood what you meant when you said place a small amount in the bottom of the mold to hold the bubblewrap. Gave out as stocking stuffers for my xmas dinner guest and they LOVED it(had a bar in the guess bathroom), so needless to say this will be part of my product line...keep the great recipes coming!
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This recipes sounds really good....question, is the bubble wrap going into the mold before the soap? The way the recipes reads is that the honey soap goes in the mold first, then the bubblewrap, then the goatsmilk soap is poured on top of that....