Heavenly Spa Bars Melt & Pour Soap Recipe

Using only the natural colours from the raw materials in this soapy spa bar has resulted in a warm, apricot coloured soap, scented with our Heavenly pure essential oil blend, with a diagonal strip of exfoliating scrub granules through the centre of the bar.

You'll make two batches of 6 soaps (12 total) and you'll have some ingredients left over for another project.

What you need (per batch of 6 soaps):

• 500g Stephenson Crystal TBS (Triple Butter) MP Soap Base or you can subsitute SFIC Cocoa Butter or Palm Free Mango Butter
• 100g SFIC Clear Melt & Pour Soap Base
• 10ml Heavenly Essential Oil Blend
• 1 teaspoon Caramel Mediterranean Clay
• 5g Apricot Kernel Scrub Granules
• 5 - 10ml Sodium Lactate Plus
• Budget Wise Flex Mould –  Square (Large Guest)

Equipment:

• 2 x 750ml microwave safe jugs
• Small beaker or glass
• Spatulas, spoons or stirring sticks
• Digital Scales - helpful but optional
• Spare tray or baking tray to place the moulds on
• Thermometer – helpful, though optional
• Pipette or dropper for essential oil or fragrance
• Isopropyl Alcohol & Spritz Bottle
• Clean Up Tool (or similar)

Method: 

• Measure 5 - 10ml Sodium Lactate into the small beaker or glass and add the Caramel clay to this, stirring to remove any dry spots.
• Cut the opaque Triple Butter Soap Base into small cubes and place half (510g - 540g) into the first microwave jug and place in the microwave.
• Heat in short bursts until the soap is liquid. Take care not to overheat the soap (optimal temperature is around 55 - 60°C).
• Once liquid, remove from the microwave and add small amounts of the hydrated clay to the soap, stirring well, until you reach a colour you are happy with.
• Now add 10ml Heavenly Essential Oil Blend and stir well.
• Pour into the soap mould, spritz the surface with Isopropyl Alcohol to remove surface bubbles and allow to set.

• Once this has set fully, mark one corner of the mould (so you keep it at the front left) and remove the soaps, one by one, and then slice a piece diagonally from the centre about 2 - 4mm wide.
• Then carefully replace the two halves into the cavity they came from and continue to divide the rest of the bars and replace back into the mould, leaving a gap in the center for the exfoliating strip.

• Use a chopstick or spatula to keep the halves pushed to the edges of the mould cavities.
• These are now ready for the exfoliating scrub stripe.

• Dice approximately 200g of clear soap base and melt in the microwave in the second jug. Take care not to overheat, as this will cause the exfoliating granules to sink to the bottom of the soap when it sets.
• Once melted, remove from microwave and add some of the pre-hydrated clay mixture if you are using it (this is optional).
• Add 1 rounded teaspoon (5g) exfoliating scrub granules and mix well.
• Spray the gap between the halves in each soap cavity with isopropyl alcohol to ensure the soap stays stuck when unmoulded.
• Carefully pour the melted exfoliating soap into the gaps in each of the cavities and then allow to set up.

• You can see the soaps in the three left hand cavities have three different colour tones of scrub. We used some of the Triple Butter Soap offcuts to make the left hand side lines a lighter colour shade.
• The three on the right were made with clear soap base, as per the above instructions.
• Once completely set up remove from the mould and clean up any over pour or soap that has seeped under the bars.
• Now wrap as usual.
• Repeat the above steps for your second batch!