Holiday Soap

I made these for the fundraising event  my friends and I organized for the Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda victims in the Philippines.  These are fun whimsical and Christmasy soaps made just in time for the holidays.  I gave some to friends and a few mentioned that they accidentally placed them into their mouths before realizing that they are soaps.  I am still learning how to seal the soaps with shrink wrap and a hot gun.  Got the idea but the wrap still needed to tighten a bit more to look more professional.

Winter Soap

 

Christmas is just around the corner and so I decided to make more of the gingerbread men.  The mold held after being used a couple times.

 

I am also taking advantage of my friend D's molds that I still have with me.  Will have to return them soon.  I called the above soap "Winter scene".  Original idea was from my supplier's website.  I used the circle mold from D and added some shredded white soap base and two green tree soaps I made earlier to  a red and white base and poured a clear soap base on top to keep everything in place. This was my first attempt and I am very happy with the result.  

 

I also made a tiny snowman and placed them on top of the gingerbread men for the picture.  I guess they would look better added to some colorful winter scene.

 

D also lend me some flower soap molds and I played with them by just pouring the colored soaps in the main flowers and poured a white soap base for the rest of the mold.

 

I also tried to embed a tree, the awareness ribbon and flowers into some of the regular soap molds.  Although better than my previous attempt at embedding, I waited to cool the clear soap too long and they started to harden when I poured them and thus I got wrinkles and uneven clear top layer to the soaps.

 

Still needed a lot of practice but I am enjoying every creations so far.

Gingerbread Men Soap

Today, Friday October 18, 2013, I decided to make some gingerbread men.  I used the leftover soaps for a few happy faces and a musical mold I got from our grocery store.  They turned out great as well.  The details showed and did not break at all as I was expecting.  My daughter Lyn saw the molds when they got home and just started peeling the soaps off.  The designs held and came off the mold just fine. The house smells like Christmas time. 

 

This time, I did not freeze the mold.  Practiced my patience and waited for a few hours before attempting to unmold the soaps.  They came out pretty easy and were not wet at all.

 

 

Because I sometimes like to do things fast.  I over poured the white details and had to do some cosmetic surgery to give the gingerbread men a sharp and clean look.  The hubby saw me removing tiny bits of pieces in the eyebrow area and was like " I thought it is just melt and then pour ". 

Definitely, not just melt and pour if you have different colors to add and has to be precise with the detailings.  Noticed the white soap in the supposedly only red top botton?  This is what happens when my impatience took over and I was not meticulously doing what I should have.



 

 Since the soap came out dry and I don't want any crystallization to happen.  I wrapped them right away and practiced making my own soap box.  I obviously still need to practice wrapping the soaps and making it tighter.  But at least these soaps are going to be protected from the elements.