Handmade Guest Soap Done in 2 Seconds

This wonderful orange Spring flower-shaped handmade soap for my guest bathroom was literally made in 2 seconds.

What’s my secret? I cheated, and you can too. Rather than using new soap flakes and make it from scratch, I recycled.

Wanna try it?

How to Make a Fun Mother’s Day* or Guestroom Soap Fast

This is the easiest homemade soap recipe you’ll find – guaranteed.

1. Delve into the back of your bathroom cabinet and search for an old or used glycerin hotel soap.’
2. Go to your kitchen cabinet and find a metal cookie mold that is slightly smaller than your soap remnant.
3. Put the soap for 2 seconds in the microwave, which will soften it by ‘a tat’.**
4. Press your mold over the softened soap* to create a personal hand soap in a delightful shape, that will look adorable in your guest bathroom…. or your own.

You could certainly make this for Mother’s Day as a wonderful darling gift in a nice embellished gift bag, perhaps with some potpourri or rose pedals thrown in.

SAFETY WARNINGS
* NOT for children. I don’t recommend kids to every use microwaves, let alone for this project. This craft idea is for adults only.
** if your soap is still too hard, put it in the microwave for another second. Be verrryyy conservative with those seconds. Put your microwave on low & stick to glycerin soaps. Particularly other types of soaps may be flammable.
** If you happen to have an old pan you could use as a double boiler, than do this instead. The ‘pan within a pan with boiling water’ (i.e. double boiler) method is safest as there is no direct heat coming to the soap.
** NEVER put a metal mold in the microwave !!)

Soap Mold Shapes & Soap Textures to Suit the Season

I chose a fresh colored soap, and a flower-shaped soap mold because it’s Spring, and I wanted to create a Spring craft.

However, you can choose your shape and texture of your soap to suit the season: Hearts are good for Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day; actually they are good year round for women or girls.

Animal shapes are good for visiting children. Choosing a speckled oak-meal type soap would be great for this. White Christmas tree and star shapes are good for the winter holiday season.

Tips for Successful Soap Making

1. After you press then glycerin soap through the mold, rub the soap’s surface with a rag till it shines.
   Preserve the soap by putting it in clear plastic wrap.

2. While you could use plastic molds, I recommend the metal ones, because they’re sturdier and won’t break if you really press on them.
3. Ideally, create dedicated art supplies. While you could re-purpose your regular cookie shapes for this project, I find that I hold 2 collections of molds: one collection of molds and shapes that I use for food and the other collection of molds I use for all kinds of crafts, such as soap making, but also for image tracing, and stamp making, etc. It’s a healthy habit to do it my way.

Be sure to read my other articles on soap making… See below!

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