This Handmade Lavender Soap is wonderful for homemade gifts this holiday season. Melt and pour soap is super easy and versatile. Instead of gift cards or trinkets, give friends and family a handmade gift.
How To Make Easy Homemade Soap Without Lye
The older I get the less presents I buy for Christmas. I used to go cuckoo-crazy around the holidays and buy way too much stuff. Don’t feel too bad for my daughter, I still get her several presents that she really wants. It’s the adults in my life that get the homemade gifts
I’m always on the lookout for Homemade Gift Ideas. For years I thought about making soap at home but I was always a bit intimidated. But then I learned that I could make homemade soap without lye. Thanks to melt and pour soap bases handmade soap is quick, easy and fun!
While I mostly stick to recipes, homemade gifts are often similar to cooking. In the past I made beauty products like these scrubs: Grapefruit Sea Salt Body Scrub, Coffee Body Scrub, Vanilla Coconut Scrub and Lavender Sugar Body Scrub.
Where Do You Buy Soap Making Ingredients?
I bought most of my ingredients on a site called Brambleberry. This Melt & Pour Sampler is great for beginners because you can try all the soap bases and decide which ones you like best.
I also bought an Essential Oil Sampler Kit, rectangle soap molds and some colorants.
But, you can also find most Soap Supplies on Amazon.
Making melt and pour soap is pretty easy. You will want to set up all of your supplies before beginning because you’ll want to get through the process as quickly as possible so the soap base doesn’t seize up on you.
But, after you make a couple batches of soap you will get your own flow and figure out what works best for you.
Handmade Lavender Soap
This Handmade Lavender Soap is wonderful for homemade gifts this holiday season. Melt and pour soap is super easy and versatile. Instead of gift cards or trinkets, give friends and family a handmade gift.
Ingredients
- 1 Lb White Shea Soap Base, - cut into 1" cubes
- 2 Tablespoons Dried Lavender Buds
- 6 Rectangle Silicone Mold
- Spray Bottle with 99% Isopropyl Alcohol
- Purple Soap Color Block
- Lavender Essential Oil (cosmetic grade)
Instructions
- Pepare all supplies before beginning.
- Place soap mold on a baking sheet (this will make it easy to move if needed)
- Divide dried lavender between the soap molds.
- In a large glass measuring cup, melt half of the soap base in the microwave. This will take between 30-60 seconds.
- Once base is stirred and melted, gently pour into soap molds (divide between the 6 molds). Spray with alcohol to prevent bubbles. Allow to cool and set.
- Melt remaining soap base then immediately stir in colorant until it reaches desired color. Then add essential oil. 15-20 drops will give you a lightly scented soap.
- Spray the top layer of soap again with alcohol. Carefully pour the second layer of soap base over the top of each soap. Spray with alcohol then allow to cool and set completely before removing from soap molds.
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Wow these soaps are beautiful! I will be making these soon. Thanks for sharing! Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanks! I have more homemade soaps on the way 🙂
The recipe was awesome but my soaps smell like the alcohol! What can I do?
Weird, perhaps you used a tad too much. It should just evaporate off of the soap very quickly.
How do you get the lavender buds to be evenly disbursed throughout the soap.. not just on the top?
You can swirl the lavender into the soap when still melted. Just be aware that flowers in soap will discolor over time and leaving them on the outside prevents this a bit.
Just made these soaps, they turned out so pretty! Thank you for this simple and beautiful recipe.
What is a purple soap color block?
Hi there, with the melt and pour method, when I pour the mixture into the soap mold, all the lavender buds will settle and go to the bottom, right? So my question is, how did you get yours to be on the sides. I’m looking at the photos you provided, and the white part of the soap has the lavender on top of it which I understand, but also everywhere on the sides. So what do I need to do to make that happen? Thank you so much!