DIY Melt and Pour Soap: Make your own melt and pour soap for a perfect, handcrafted gift. The Hippie Hobby shows us how.

Soap making, although daunting, is actually quite simple with the right ingredients and instructions. Here are step-by-step instructions for making your own melt and pour soap. This is a perfect handcrafted gift, just in time for the holidays. This makes three different two-ounce soap bars: green tea peppermint sugar soap, peppermint oatmeal soap and lavender peppermint soap.

 

 

 

6 oz goat milk soap base 


¼ tsp organic, Japanese matcha 
green tea powder 


2 Tbs lavender flowers, ultra blue grade 


2 Tbs rolled oats

1 packet granulated sugar


5/8 dram peppermint essential oil

¼ dram sunflower oil


Mini-loaf pans


Wooden craft sticks

Household items:

Pyrex bowl or Mason jar


Spoon, rolling pin, or mortar and pestle

Hot pad


 

Step 1:  First, coat bottom of each mini-loaf pan with dried goods; one with lavender flowers, one with whole rolled oats and one with sugar.

Step 2:  Crush or grind up remaining lavender flowers and set aside for later. Repeat step with rolled oats and set crushed oats aside separately.

Step 3:  Pour sunflower oil into a small dish or bowl and add a tiny bit of green tea powder to oil; stir green tea powder in until oil is tinted olive green.

TIP: Use the green tea powder sparingly, otherwise the mixture will be tough to pour; set aside.

Step 4:  Cut goat milk soap base into cubes and put into Mason jar or Pyrex dish. Microwave in 20-second bursts until completely melted. The soap base melts quickly, so be careful not to overheat it.

TIP: Keep in mind that you are using natural materials for coloring so over time, the green tea and lavender will oxidize a little.

Step 5:  Carefully remove Pyrex bowl or mason jar from microwave; quickly stir in peppermint essential oil.

Step 6:  Pour melted soap base and peppermint essential oil mixture evenly into each mini-loaf pan.

 

Step 7:

Green Tea Peppermint Sugar Scrub: Quickly stir tinted green tea tinted sunflower oil into the mini-loaf pan with sugar; mix color throughout.

Peppermint Oatmeal Soap: Add a couple pinches of crushed oats to mini-loaf pan with rolled oat coating; quickly mix crushed oats throughout.

Lavender Peppermint Soap: add a few pinches of crushed lavender into mini-loaf pan with lavender flowers; quickly mix crushed lavender in.

Put mini-loaf pans into the fridge to set for at least 30 minutes until solid. Once your soap sets up completely, they are ready to be enjoyed.

 

Recipe courtesy of The Hippie Hobby, a bimonthly subscription box that takes the guesswork out of DIY crafting, shipping across the U.S. and Canada starting at $23.95. Visit TheHippieHobby.com for more information, to purchase all ingredients for this melt and pour soap project, and use code NATURAL for 25 percent off the first box.