Melt-and-Pour Loaves and Popular Scents

If you ever have a large event and need a creative gift idea, melt-and-pour soap loaves are the way to go. We're putting together an order for a ladies golf tournament and on occasion, we'll have customers come in and make a loaf to cut for wedding or baby shower presents. It's really easy and a lot of fun! I like to melt clear soap and split it into different cups for multiple colors, and then swirl in a little bit of white base for an extra pop. You can also chop up hardened pieces of soap and drop them in for a neat geometric look. Our 12" loaf mold and crinkle cutters work great for this project!


Some of our most popular fragrances include:

1. Oatmeal, Milk and Honey
2. Vanilla Select
3. Sensuous Sandalwood
4. Lavender
5. Lilac
6. White Tea and Ginger
7. Relaxing
8. Plumeria
9. Island Coconut
10. Yuzu Cybilla

Packaging is super easy, too! Simply wrap each bar in plastic wrap, cut off the extra from the back of the bar and do a couple of passes with a heat gun to shrink the wrap to the soap. Add a personalized sticker and you're done!

Lime Wave Soap with Calendula

All this sunshine calls for a refreshing and crisp bar of soap! Lathering up with lime essential oil is so awakening with its zesty punch-- it's the perfect scent for this time of year. I teamed it up with some dried calendula flowers for an extra pop of color, along with lime and brilliant blue labcolors for the perfect green gradation.

The Domed Wave mold works great for this project. I ended up using a discontinued mold that I pulled from the Soap Bar stash, but it gives the same effect.
Your soap will be created by a series of layers. To begin, pour a thin clear layer scented with lime essential oil (4ml per pound) on the bottom of the mold and spray with rubbing alcohol. Now sprinkle a pinch of calendula on the surface. Here comes the color. We're going to build up a darker color with each layer so that when it's popped out of the mold, the base of the bar is a beautiful deep green and the top is bright lime. Add one drop of the lime labcolor, mix and pour over the hardened clear layer with calendula.

With each new layer of color, add another pinch of calendula and spray rubbing alcohol between layers. Make sure to hold your spritzer high above the calendula when spritzing, otherwise it will blow off all the pedals. For the next layer of green, add one to two drops of brilliant blue labcolor to one drop of lime labcolor.
Your final layer of green is the darkest-- up to five drops of brilliant blue to two drops of lime labcolor. You'll be able to see the layers build up and the gradation from light to dark as more blue is added to the lime.


Let it harden up in the freezer for 10 minutes, de-mold and enjoy!

Private Class Sneak Peak!

Hi everyone, this is Kat. We've had a fantastic week at Otion complete with sunshine and two days of private "Design Your Own Day" instruction. I had the pleasure of teaching a couple classes and wanted to share with you some of the colorful melt-and-pour projects we made on Wednesday.






We used the scraps from our plaid project to embed into a swirled loaf for our final project. I love how it turned out! The embedded eraser soaps were made with a clear base and a double and triple-pour technique. Simply wait until your colored soap has cooled a bit (that phase right before it gets too hard to pour), and pour each color on opposite ends of the mold until they meet in the middle. The soap is thick enough to stay in place without swirling together.

Anne-Marie has made a great tutorial on plaid soaps. You can find it here. You can also purchase a plaid soap online video tutorial here.

Thanks for taking a look and have a great weekend!