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Basic melt and pour soap
Making soap at home is a practical and satisfying skill to learn. Whether you'd like a natural alternative to store-bought soap, or you're a crafty person looking for a new creative venture, making soap is fun and not too difficult.
Melt and pour soap is basically melting a pre-made soap base and then pouring it into a soap mold, hence the name! Although some soapers consider using this method as ‘cheating’, I find that there are some techniques where melt and pour is the more suitable soap than cold process soap.
1. Cut up the soap base in small cubes and add them to the heat proof glass jug.
In the past few years, many kinds of melt and pour soap bases have become available, such as goats milk, olive oil, shea butter, honey, and even a wobbly jelly-like soap base!
Cut up the required amount of melt and pour soap base into small cubes and place them in a heat proof glass jug .
2. In short 20-30 second bursts, melt the soap base in your microwave on your highest setting.
The technique of melting and pouring the pre-made soap is very simple. Be careful your soap does not boil! If you don’t have a microwave, you can melt the soap on the stove using the double boiler method (placing one smaller pot inside a bigger pot of water).
3. Once the soap is completely melted, add your fragrance and colour and mix well.
You can use essential oils or skin-friendly fragrances. To colour your soap, you can use special soap dyes or powders, micas, or liquid food colouring. Note that colours added to a white soap base will become pastel coloured. To achieve bright vivid colours, you will need to use a clear soap base. And if you find your soap has hardened in the meantime, just pop it back into the microwave again for another 20 seconds.
4, Carefully pour the soap into your soap mold and let it harden before removing the soaps from the molds.
If there are any bubbles on the surface, you can disperse them by spritzing some isopropyl alcohol (available from pharmacies) on it. Leave the soap to harden fully before removing from the mold.
Because melt and pour soap contains glycerin, a humectant, which attracts moisture, it is important to wrap your soaps in glad wrap as soon as they have cooled down and hardened.
Finished soap
Alyssa
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2025
Good quality, did exactly what I needed it to do.
Hannah H.
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2025
This is the perfect mold for making DIY birthday candles. It’s very durable and nice quality. Easy to clean and simple to use.
Alex
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2024
Worked great for my beeswax candles. The candles pop out easily once cooled.
Jes
Reviewed in Canada on June 17, 2024
Great quality product. Exactly what I needed, first attempt turned out perfect
yolanda
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2024
Works easy.
Susanne
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2022
Very cute. The only negative is the wick holder is in the wrong place. It should be in the middle of the solid wax and not in the middle of the frame and solid wax. So ur wick shows. The wick falls on the solid place in the mold so the wick always shows in the front. I found a way around that but takes ages to get it right. Will post a pic so u can see the wick in front. Otherwise very cute. Ps i am a candle maker for many years.
Melinda Hoeffer
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2021
Very great love it. Delivered early.
Timothy I. Angelone
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2019
Great cheap mold. I’ve turned this $9 investment into hundreds of dollars in candles. $3 a candle or 2 for $5Haven’t used one drop of silicon mold release on them although I’m sure that would make them release easier. Let them cool in about 20-30 minutes and they pop right out with a little bit of muscle.
jackie
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 17, 2019
Love this mould, great addition to add to my candle parties
Michelle Vu
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2018
I honestly had a great experience with these molds. I got two and both worked great. I noticed it was easier to pull the numbers out when the wax was close being completely cooled, otherwise it stuck.
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