Cookie Cutter Soaps
Melt and Pour soap base(opaque)
Scent (optional)
Color (must be liquid, like gels)
cookie sheet (must have at least a 1/2 in. edge on it)
knife (to swirl your colors!)
cookie cutters
Melt down the soap base and scent. You can give the main base a color if you
wish or leave it white. Pour the base on the cookie sheet and add colors and
swirl them all over - be creative! When this dries, pop the block of soap
out of the cookie sheet. Use cookie cutters to cut up the soap.
There are lots of different things you can do with this… Some ideas:
Christmas Soap: Swirl red & green into white and use cookie cutters
Candy Cane Soap: Swirl red into white with peppermint scent and candy cane
cutters
Easter/Spring: Swirl multiple pastels and find some fun cookie cutters
4th of July: Patriotic white soap with a beautiful red & blue swirl (find a
nice star cutter!
City Shampoo (Removes Impurities from Hair)
3/4 cup distilled water
1/4 cup shampoo concentrate (or substitute with 1/2 cup unscented shampoo
and increase salt to 1 tsp.)
1/2 tsp. table salt
1 tbs. dried thyme
1 tbs. dried peppermint
1 tbs. dried lavender
1 tsp. witch hazel
1 tsp. almond oil
7 drops cinnamon oil
3 drops ylang-ylang oil
This shampoo is known to be effective in removing impurities such as smog
and city grime from the hair. In a heavy saucepan, bring the water to a
boil and add the dried thyme, peppermint and lavender. Remove the pan from
the heat and let steep for 30 minutes. Strain the herbs from the water and
pour the herbally infused water into a ceramic bowl. Add the shampoo
concentrate and stir until well mixed. Add the salt, witch hazel, almond
oil, cinnamon oil and ylang-ylang oil to the mixture, stirring until thick.
Bottle and close.
Citrus Yum
You will need:
½ lb. Transparent MP base
½ TB. Coconut oil
3 drops lemon oil
3 drops grapefruit oil
3 drops orange oil
fruit wedges mold
orange/yellow colorant
Melt the MP base and cocon ut oil. Remove from heat and whisk well. Add
essential oils and whisk well. Add a few drops of yellow/orange dye. I mixed
red and yellow food coloring. Pour into molds. When I want to do each the
“correct” color and flavoring for each fruit wedge, I use plastic leftover
yogurt
cups, pour my base into it (after heated) then do the color mixing and
flavoring.
Citronella Soap
1 cup grated Castile soap
1/2 cup water
10 drops citronella essential oil
5 drops eucalyptus essential oil
1 T. dried, crushed pennyroyal leaves
Mix the ingredients into the melted soap/water mixture. With an electric
mixer, whip the soap until it has doubled in volume. Spoon the soap into the
prepared molds, pushing it into the molds as best you can (the beating
action cools the mix, so work quickly). If the mixture has cooled off and
thickened so much you can’t put it into the molds, hand mold the soap into
large balls.