DIY Orange Creamsicle Soap
DIY orange creamsicle soap is easy to make and smells amazing! Perfect for handmade gifts, this is a soap bar you'll make on repeat.
Servings: 12 bars
Equipment
- Double Boiler or a glass bowl and a pot of water
- 2 Plastic pitchers
Ingredients
- 2 lbs melt and pour soap base
- 0.5 oz vanilla bean fragrance
- 0.05 oz orange essential oil (40 drops)
- ½ tsp orange mica powder
- ½ tsp light brown mica powder
Instructions
- Chop the melt and pour soap base into small pieces. Melt it in a double boiler, then remove from heat and stir in the fragrance oil and essential oil.
- Split the melted soap base into two pitchers and stir in the mica powder. Make each pitcher a different color.
- Pour the soap base into the silicone molds, alternating between colors to give it a layered look.
- Allow the soap bars to harden completely before removing them from the molds.
Notes
- Melt and pour soap base can take a long time to melt down. The smaller you chop it up, the faster it will melt.
- Work quickly! The soap will begin to harden rather quickly, so it's important to get it into the molds as fast as you can.
- Rather than a double boiler, you can melt the soap base in a glass bowl set atop a pot of boiling water.
- This recipe will make about 12 bars of soap, depending on the size of your molds.
- If you're giving the soap as a gift, I like to add a piece of hemp twine and a gift tag or dried orange slice before gifting. You can also put it in a paper bag or small box. Packaging your gift beautifully adds that extra special touch!