It has taken me many years to become comfortable working with Melt and Pour clear soap base. I am s stickler for a clear soap with no bubbles so when I couldn't get it right I just gave up, for a while anyway. Then I decide it can't be that hard and tried again. Now it is like second nature. You can see an earlier attempt at this technique here. I am using this technique and a few others in a team building exercise with Grindrod this week. I think they should have a lot of fun.
| You will need: |
| Clear soap base |
| Green oxide |
| Titanium di oxide |
| Blue mica |
| Flash Gold Mica |
| IPA |
| Fragrance oil |
| Any small mould you want to use |
| Cookie cutters or a craft knife to cut our your shapes |
| Microwave jugs |
| How to: |
| Melt some clear soap base, enough to create your grass, clouds and sun. |
| Separate the soap into smaller containers and mix your colours |
| Green oxide with Titanium Di oxide for the grass |
| Titanium di oxide for the clouds |
| Flash Gold mica for the sun |
| Pour a thin layer of each colour into your moulds, or just onto a marble counter top. These will be used to cut out your embeds. |
| When the soap is hard enough cut out your grass |
| Cut out your sun |
| Cut out your clouds |
| Once all your pieces are cut out place them in your mould to see that they will fit comfortable |
| Remove the pieces and place them face up |
| Now make sure you have melted more clear soap base ready for the next step |
| Spray all your soap embeds with IPA |
| Pour a small layer of clear soap into your mould and quickly place your embeds FACE DOWN into the soap and spritz with IPA |
| Now take the rest of the clear melted soap add desired amount of fragrance and add your blue mica and titanium di oxide and stir well |
| Feel your clear layer of soap with the embeds to make sure it is hard enough to take the blue layer you are about to pour and spritz it with IPA if it is |
| Pour the blue layer carefully over the embeds |
| Spritz with IPA and walk away and have a cup of tea |
| Wait for about 40 minutes or until the soap is cold to the touch |
| To release from the mould break the airlock by squeezing the corners together gently. you can see above the airlock has been broken |
| If the soap does not pop out easily then leave it for a while longer |
