Handmade soaps

These soaps were part of Devon’s mother’s Christmas present. (For his birthday, his dad got the weird-ass watch-winder that Devon STILL has not blogged about. Go over to evilsoft.org and give him crap about it.) These melt-and-pour soaps were a bit of an experiment for me. I can’t find soap paint anywhere except online, and I wanted a way to add layers of color.

With the soap on the top right and bottom right, I filled the design part of the mold with soap to which I’d added liquid dye, and I let it set until hardened. Then I filled the rest of the mold with white soap for a color contrast. With the soap on the top left, I filled the mold about two-thirds full of dyed soap, let it harden, and filled the rest with white soap. The other two are solid colors.  Sadly, the one in the middle is the last soap like that I will make (at least until I make another trip to the craft store). I woefully overestimated how hot I could let the soap get and really made a mess of the mold.

For the box, I painted an ordinary cardboard box metallic plum, let it dry, and adhered ribbon around the edges of the lid. Then I added a round, beaded thing-a-ma-bob I found in the jewelry section of the craft store.