Melt and pour soap is a fun and easy way to make your own soap. You don’t have to worry about wearing safety gear or using caustic soda like you do with cold process soap. It can be a fun project to do with kids or adults alike.
These little soaps are poured straight into our round clamshell moulds, so once they’re set you can just close them up and they’re all ready to sell or give away. There’s also the added bonus of not having to wash a soap mould!
The round clamshells are easy to make guest size soaps. If pink isn’t your thing, try any of our other micas in your favourite shade. You can see the difference in colour between the clear and white soap bases. Even though it’s the same mica, it looks different. So combining both soap bases is a nice effect.
What you’ll need
(makes one clamshell – 2 x 50 gram soaps)
50 grams Clear Melt & Pour Soap Base
50 grams White Melt & Pour Soap Base
3 mini scoops Pink Honeysuckle Mica
5ml Forbidden Fantasy Fragrance Oil
1 x Round Clamshell Mould
2 x Heat safe containers
Isopropyl Alcohol
Step One
Chop and melt the Clear Melt and Pour Base in a small heat safe container. Because you are melting such a small amount of soap, you can microwave for about 20 seconds at first, then stir and use 10 second bursts stirring in between to slowly melt without burning. Make sure you don’t heat above 60 degrees C, anything higher than that can cause the soap to burn. Once the melt and pour is melted, add 1 mini scoop of Pink Honeysuckle mica and stir to combine.
Add 2.5ml of the fragrance oil. If the soap begins to harden, pop it back into the microwave for 10 seconds.
Step Two
Chop and melt the White Melt and Pour Base in a small heat safe container. Because you are melting such a small amount of soap, you can microwave for about 20 seconds at first, then stir and use 10 second bursts stirring in between to slowly melt without burning. Make sure you don’t heat above 60 degrees C, anything higher than that can cause the soap to burn. Once the melt and pour is melted, add 2 mini scoops of Pink Honeysuckle mica and stir to combine.
Add 2.5ml of the fragrance oil. If the soap begins to harden, pop it back into the microwave for 10 seconds.
Step Three
Once both soap bases reach 50 degrees (approximately, a few degrees out either way won’t matter too much), pour both soaps into the clamshell at the same time, start at opposite ends of the circle and slowly move the jugs around while you’re pouring – kind of like how a barista makes fancy coffee. The trick is to make sure your soap isn’t too hot otherwise the clear and white soaps will just blend together.
Repeat for the second soap in the clamshell. If you’ve found the soap has started to harden just pop back in the microwave for 5 seconds.
Step Four
Once your moulds are full, spritz with isopropyl to get rid of any bubbles and leave to harden. This normally takes a few hours. You can speed things up by putting the soap in the fridge. Don’t close the clamshell up yet though as you don’t want to trap any steam as the soap cools.
Once your soap has cooled completely. Close up the clamshell and you’re ready to go! To use simply press down on the back of the clamshell and the soap will pop right out.
Hi there how much would this make please?
This recipe makes one clamshell (2 x 50 gram soaps) To make more than one clamshell just multiply the recipe for the number of clamshells you’d like to make 🙂