10 Top Tips For Melt And Pour Soap Making

Making soap can be a fun hobby. You also have the pride and satisfaction of making your own soap, controlling exactly whats in it and wowing your friends and family with your hand made soap creations.

The melt and pour process is an easy way to make your own soap. Melt and pour soap comes in ready made blocks of uncolored and unscented soap. Basically, you melt the blocks, add your own color, fragrance, fun additives (optional) and pour it into molds. Once its set, its ready to use!

Here are ten top tips for melt and pour soap making:

1. Use a good recipe. Even though its easy to make soap this way, you still need a recipe to ensure the color, fragrance and optional additives are in the right amounts.

2. Make sure you wear the appropriate safety equipment. I like to wear protective clothing, shoes, gloves and safety goggles. Melted soap is very hot! You dont want to get burned if you accidentally splash yourself.

3. You need suitable soap making equipment. You can melt the block of soap in the microwave, but you need a sturdy microwave safe bowl or jug for doing this. If melting on the stove, you need a double boiler. You also need rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle, measuring spoons and a metal whisk or spoon.

4. Ensure you make soap in a well ventilated area (eg, with window/s open).

5. Dont be disturbed by children or pets when making soap. You dont want them (or you) to be accidentally splashed, which can happen when youre distracted by an interruption.

6. Ensure youre using a good quality melt and pour soap base with colors and fragrances suitable for soap making.

7. Have fun choosing the molds youre going to use. You can use shell molds, flower molds, heart molds, or whatever kind of molds take your fancy.

8. Allow enough time for the soap to set. It usually takes a few hours to set in the open or about one hour in the refrigerator. Never place it in the freezer to set.

9. If you have trouble unmolding your soap, run some warm water over the base of the mold. The soap should pop right out.

10. Enjoy using your scentsational hand made soap! Once its set, you can use it right away!

Jennifer Christine is a Super Soap Making Enthusiast! Grab your FREE exclusive mini report, Secret Online Soap Making Supplies when you visit http://www.MakeYourOwnSoapToday.com and discover how you can make your own hand made soap today!

Soap Making Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to common soap making questions:What is soap made from?Soap is a composite product made from fats, lye, and water. It can also contain botanicals, fragrance, and dyes.What makes homemade soap different from mass produced soap?Handmade soap is softer and more luxurious than mass produced soap. It also is less likely to crack and dry out then...

How to Make Cold Process Soap
The process of making cold process soap is very simple. First you will need safety equipment including goggles and rubber gloves. Next you will need a scale to measure out your ingredients and additives, a large stainless steel pot, measuring cups, a stirring spoon to use only for the lye, a stirring spoon to use only with the essential oils, two k...

Homemade Lye Soap
You can make your own lye soap at home; its really not hard to do. Soap is what you get, when you combine fat with some sort of caustic agent, using water as your catalyst. You wont need anything exotic to make your own soap; most of the ingredients you need may be as close as your grocery store.What will you need? For a basic soap, you only need w...

How to Make Hot Process Soap
Learning how to make hot process soap is not difficult. In fact this ancient process of soap making goes back centuries. The most difficult part about making hot process soap is getting it out of the molds. But well get to that later.Step one. The first step is to gather your equipment and your ingredients. The equipment that you will need for this...

Homemade Soap Products - The Benefits of Using Natural Ingredients
You can make your own lye soap at home; its not hard to do! All you have to do is combine fat with some sort of caustic agent, using water as your catalyst, and you have soap. Saponification is the technical name for the chemical process between lye and fat.And you wont need anything exotic to make your own soap; most of the ingredients you need ma...

Creative Soap Molds
If you are interested in making your own soap then you will need to find soap molds. There are many different types of soap molds including character molds, simple molds, silicone molds, and wood molds. The type of soap molds that you use will depend on the soap making process that you use, the type of wax that you use, and your design preferences....

Handmade Soap Coloring Options
There are several different soap coloring options that are available to soap makers and crafters. The first types of dyes that you can use to color your soap are natural soap colorants. These soap colorants use natural ingredients to tint your soap. For example Turmeric can be used to give your soap a golden glow, Moroccan Red Clay can be used to g...