Spring Fling Melt and Pour Soap Making

Hi everyone, this is Anna from Koala Soap and today we're going to be making, I'm going to

be testing the soap in a smaller mold before I put it in a loaf mold and make a larger batch of it

So first of all what I'm going to do is I need to make the embeds and I really don't need a lot

of soap for this at all because I'm only going to be filling the very bottoms of these cavities

with just a very very little bit of goat's milk and I'm going to be using some fondant cutters

and I want them to be cut fairly thinly so I don't want to I really just don't

want a lot of soap because I don't want it to pop out but you'll see what I mean in a second so first of all I'm just gonna go ahead and melt the soap okay so

I have the melt and pour melted I'm gonna use a lab color from bramble berry

it's already diluted with distilled water it is called canary once you dilute

this you need to keep it refrigerated I'm just gonna put a little bit of color

in there so the one thing to remember is that anything you mix with goats milk is

going to turn a pastel color pretty much black will turn into gray in any of

these really beautiful colors that are even micas will turn into a pastel so

basically what I'm doing is I'm just mixing this little lab color in there could be a little bit more I'm just going for a very pale yellow I'm going

for this this little embed right there and we'll show you how we do it in just

a second I'm gonna add a little bit more just gonna mix it a little bit okay so

now here is the secret my favorite mold okay link will be down below or on my

website I only mixed a little bit of melt more because I'm just I'm just testing this design okay so I only want to pour just enough so that I don't see

the bottom of the mold here just enough so I don't see the bottom because if I

pour too much then it'll be way too thick when I cut which I'll still be

able to cut but it'll really really stand out I think a little bit too much

on the soap design that I'm going for so as you can see it's covering just the

bottom give it a little shake there okay I have a little couple bubbles that's

fine we'll spray it Okay, so now that they're dry, you can just peel them out

This one, it's still big enough to do something with. And you see how thin these are

These will always be pliable. Never ever will this get hard because it's so thin

And then I save these little embeds for later So what I going to do today is I want to do some flowers So this piece is probably too small for that so I just going to put that there and we do something with that later This is again very pliable This is a little bit more detailed a little bit bigger so I really not going to get more than a couple out of this I still start at the end because there some left here I might find something else I want to do with that I don know

until I do and then what I do is sometimes if it's a little hard for you

to push down you can have it on top and push it in with your fingers just like

this okay kind of help it around like this is why you you want it to be thin

and then I kind of tear away from around it like so and I push down and then I'm

going to push it out and it comes right out okay so it should come right up if

I'm pushing here and I notice it's not coming out, what you've done is you've

kind of locked it. Some of these have this weird lock. You just twist it, then

push and you see how that comes right out. Okay, so I'm gonna cut a few of these

flowers out. So I've cut my flowers out, I have a little bit left and I found this

cute little one. So basically I'm just gonna cut a few of these out. Really easy

to do. This one doesn't have a pattern so I'm just gonna pop it out there

okay so for this next part what I'm going to do is I'm going to melt some clear glycerin

and I'm going to add a little bit of aqua pearl mica I'm also going to remelt what's left of our

embed cutouts and then I'm going to be putting it in this mold and we're going

to attempt to have a little bit of a swirl and let's go ahead and melt the

glycerin. Okay so I've remelted everything. I'm going to add in a summer

fling. It's part of a tester pack from Bramble Berry. Put a little bit in here

and yes I'm using a different dropper than what I used for the

lab colors. Okay so we're gonna do that and then I'm gonna add just a smidge of

alcohol to my aqua. It's a really pretty green. I'm gonna add that in too

okay that's our green all right and here's our yellow and it is the same

yellow that we did these cutouts with so I'm actually going to just the main

color of the soap will be this color and I'm gonna try swirl in a little bit so

again I just gonna pour as much as I can and I guess we pour it almost I think three quarters three fourths of the way up will be good Because I still want to pour a little bit of this yellow in

So it looks like I'm only going to have room for two

I'm going to pour all this in the next mold and maybe we'll do a cutout, some cutouts there

Okay. a little bit of alcohol there I'm gonna see what this is might be two so it's

143 145 133 I guess it'll be okay so we'll go ahead and pour I don't want a

skin really yeah just want to pour in I'm gonna pour from high so I should have

those spouted ones but here we go and I'm gonna fill up the rest of this mold

with this color hopefully there's enough there may not be enough that's okay this

was a test batch anyway so I'm not that worried about it screw or these I got

from smart and final they were on sale for 79 cents for like 500 of them so if

you can get your hands on it do it and I'm not gonna go crazy you know how I

like love to go crazy with this world thing but I'm not going to promise

myself I'm not going to I'll leave it at that I'm gonna get these air bubbles out

and then as this cools a little bit what I usually do is I use a little bit of

the I remelt this and I'm going to use this melt and pour or this melt and pour

it doesn't matter I'm going to use it as glue so I'm still going to spray the top

with alcohol I'm still going to spray the flour with alcohol but I'm also going

to use the melt and pour as glue okay and we're going to just kind of see how

turns out. We're gonna wait for these to cool down. Okay, welcome back everybody. We

are here to unmold these soaps. They are done and I have my little embeds here

We'll kind of see how it came out. It's a nice nice swirl in there. We actually

did it yay a little swirl there but it looks kind of nice okay we'll just turn

them upside down this is I have a little bit of that green left as you saw and so

what I decided I have a little bit of purple soap on there from that butterfly

in bed I was just seeing how it looked there was a little bit of green left and

I thought you know what that's such a pretty color and the interesting thing about this Pearl Mica from Bramble Berry, Aqua Pearl Mica, is I don't know if you

can see it, but it looks like I have glitter in there, and I don't. So it's

nice because I have a glitter effect without having to use my glitter. Okay

and then we have our embeds, and then what I want to do is I kind of want to place them and see how they're gonna look. And the part that's the top of the

mold the part that was sitting up top if you moved it all i don know if you can see but there like little ridges you see that okay so you you going to be putting your embeds on the flat part the part that was at the bottom here and so that is these sides okay and

I'm going to keep them a little elevated I kind of want to see how you know how these little embeds

are going to look before I put them on so I'm thinking something like this and then I thought

Well, if I can do that, these are so pliable, can I do something like this where it's kind of going around the edge

And you can, but sometimes they may break. So I broke my butterfly in half

So you kind of have to be really careful. You can do it. Okay, you can

Yes, you can. And then you can go ahead and put your alcohol on it

Oh, see, that one broke. You kind of have to be really careful, but you can do it

You just have to be very careful when you're bending it. And some of them will bend, some might break, but that's why you can just remelt it and try it again

Okay, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to adhere these to the soaps

And what I did is, if you remember, we had a little bit of glycerin left

I have my alcohol and I have my embeds. So we're just going to make sure that this glycerin is warm or at least hot enough so that I can dip it onto the soap bar

So what I'm going to do, I guess we'll do this one. I'm going to do this one last

I'm going to make this my cover photo for this video. I'm going to work on these two. Okay, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to use my little spoon here

I get these little spoons at the yogurt shop, the little local yogurt shop that my kids love

you see I kind of put a little dab right there and then I'm going to squirt squirt

and just push it down and let it set you

I really like it I think less is more in this case so I think this is gonna be

really pretty this one might have a little bit too much yellow in it because because I think the flowers might get a little lost

But the point is, it's a cute little design. My mom will love it, which is really important

because I like to send these soaps to her. She's in Pennsylvania, and they haven't seemed to have stopped getting blizzards there right now

So it's kind of a little care package. It cheers her up. Thank you