Homemade Peppermint Layered Soap
This layered peppermint soap is soothing, cooling, and nourishing to the skin. A simple melt and pour recipe, you'll love these easy soap bars this Christmas and winter!
Servings: 12 bars
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 lb melt and pour soap base
- 1 tsp mica powder
- 25 drops peppermint essential oil
Instructions
- Chop the soap base into small pieces and place in a medium saucepan.
- Melt the soap base over medium heat, stirring frequently, until it is a smooth consistency.
- Remove from heat and stir in the peppermint essential oil. Then, pour the melted soap equally into two pitchers.
- Stir the mica powder into one of the pitchers of melted soap base.
- Pour the melted soap into your silicone molds one layer at a time, waiting about 5 minutes before pouring the next layer. You can make them as thick as you want; I made my layers about a quarter of an inch thick.
- Allow the soap bars to harden before removing them from the molds.
Notes
- If you want to add more colored layers to this recipe, you can just separate the soap into more pitchers and stir in different colors of mica powder.
- This recipe will make about 12 soap bars, depending on the size of your molds.
- The soap base can take quite a while to melt down, so I recommend cutting it into small pieces. The smaller the chunks, the faster it will melt.
- Homemade soap bars make excellent holiday or Christmas gifts! I like to tie them up with twine and add them to a Christmas gift basket, give them for a hostess gift, or use them as stocking stuffers.