Happy, Stripey Cubes Melt & Pour Soap Recipe

Sometimes it’s fun to have a play with colour and soap!  This project is just that, a geometric styled soap, but not with perfectly straight lines, a more relaxed geometry!  After unmoulding, cut half the bars diagonally, for a unique soap bar shape too!

Ingredients:

• 1500g Shea Butter Natural Melt and Pour Soap
• 520g (4 x 130g) SFIC Clear Natural Melt and Pour Soap (for coloured stripes)
• 25 - 40g/ml Crisp Apple Rose Fragrance
  
  The colours we used are: 
  
  
• Salsa Red Colour Block
• Deep Seagreen Liquid Pigment Dispersion or Neptune Green Mica Powder
• Astral Blue Colour Block
• Bumblebee Colour Block
• Silicone 9 Cubes Mould *While this mould is unavailable, we recommend adjusting the tutorial for our Budget-Wise Flex Mould - 4 Square Deep.
• Pipettes
• Isopropyl Alcohol and Blue Spritzer Bottle
  
  

Equipment:

Several microwave safe jugs
Spoons or stirring sticks
Low props for the mould - I used plastic rulers
Electronic Scales - helpful though not essential
Thermometer - helpful but not essential

The finer details:

• To make a striking contrast, I’ve mixed bold, bright colours, with white Shea Butter Melt and Pour Soap Base
• Crisp Apple Rose Fragrance is “water white” – this ensures there is no discolouration later on down the track.
• I poured at 65 °C, and used 2 or 3 rulers for each shift in height and angle
  
  
• SUBSTITUTIONS:  Due to the recent fire that destroyed our premises and stock, we recommend the above changes.  Note:  To use the colour blocks, shave pieces of colour into the melted soap and stir to dissolve.  If using the Budget-Wise Deep Square mould adjust the depth of the layers and stripes as the depth of the mould is less.  The other alternative is to make a long loaf, and then slice into cubes.

I eyeballed all the soap pours – the coloured soap is around 2 – 3mm thick.  I used around 40ml of Fragrance, (splitting this eveny into the layers as I mixed in the colour).

Here's our slide show tutorial: