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Soapylove Tutorial: Lucky Star Soaps
If you love bright colors and plastic jewelry (or did when you were a kid, like me!), then this soap project is for you! A sweet little heart is floating inside the new Soapylove stacked star. It’s simple and fun, and I bet Martha Quinn* would love them!
Makes 4 stars, instructions are for the yellow style.
Supplies:
1 lb Naturally Clear soap base
Non-bleeding liquid red colorant
Sunshine Yellow from the Jewelry Box Colorant Set
Cherry Pop fragrance oil from the Candy Jar Fragrance Set
Small heart polymer or fondant cutter
Small plastic storage container or lid, approximately 6″x6″ or smaller
Knife, cutting board, bottle of rubbing alcohol, Pyrex measuring cup
Instructions:
Melt 3 oz of clear soap, color darkly with liquid red colorant. Pour into plastic storage container (or into the lid, like I did), to 1/8″-1/4″ thickness. Allow to harden and unmold.
Cut red soap sheet with heart cutter.
TIP: to prevent your cutter from splitting at the seam, wrap the seam in tape before using.
Melt 12 oz of clear soap and stir in a few drops of Sunshine Yellow colorant and Cherry Pop fragrance oil. Fill mold to second star, spray with alcohol to pop any bubbles, and allow to harden.
Remelt remaining soap if a skin has formed but make sure it’s not above 120 degrees (or too hot to touch with your bare fingertip). Spray hardened yellow soap with alcohol, then pour a thin layer of soap into the mold.
Quickly spray a red heart with alcohol and put into the hot soap. Spray again with alcohol and top off mold. Repeat for remaining cavities.
Allow to harden overnight at room temperature. Pull away sides of mold to create an air pocket, then invert and push on back until soap pops out.
For pink and purple variation, I used Sparkle Dust from the Jewelry Box Colorant Setand non-bleeding purple colorant for the hearts and stars, then Fiery Fuchsia colorant with Pink Strawberry Fragrance Oil for the soap bar. You can create another layer of soap plus an embed to add more dimension to your design, too!
*Do you remember Martha Quinn? She was a “VJ” on MTV. The good ol’ days! 
Have fun!
-Debbie, Soapylove
Fall Mash-Up
Flexy Fast Fall Pumpkins
Pumpkin Puree Cold Process Soap
Pumpkin Shimmer Eyeshadow
Thanksgiving Turkey Soap
Butternut Squash Turnovers
Fig and Stilton Square Recipe
Almond Biscotti Fragrance Blends
We’d hate for you to miss any of the great inspiration from years past. Click through to the links if any of them sound unfamiliar to you.
Stenciled Glitter Soap
Here’s what you’ll need to make this versatile, easy-to-make soap:
Cranberry Fig Fragrance Oil
Merlot Mica
Liquid Black Colorant
Clear Soap Base
Leaf PDF
Hair Spray
Craft Knife
Printing your homemade stencils: Download the PDF file here or choose your own Fall design. Print the design on sticker labels. Allow the ink to dry then use your craft knife to cut out the design or lay the paper design over contact paper. Keep in mind that you will be able to use both the cut out and the silhouette for your stencil.
ONE: Melt 4 ounces of clear melt and pour soap and mix in 1 ml of your favorite fall fragrance oil (we used Cranberry Fig).
TWO: Stir in a couple drops of liquid black colorant and 1 mini scoop of Merlot Mica and pour the soap into 1 cavity of the scalloped rectangle mold. Allow the soap to cool for 3-4 hours. You can use any combination of colors so long as they are dark enough to let the glitter really shine.
Color Variation: OR stir in a mini scoop of Brick Red Oxide. Try mixing the oxide with a little rubbing alcohol before adding it to the soap. This will eliminate any clumping of the colorant.
THREE: Cut out your leaf design with a craft knife. Then remove of the backing and adhere the sticker to your soap.
FOUR: Spray the top of the soap with hair spray to make sure the glitter adheres to the soap.
FIVE: Sprinkle the soap with your colored glitter and let dry for at least 5 minutes. Do one solid color or an array of colors like I did. Get creative with this part.
SIX: Once the glitter has dried onto the soap, dump the extra glitter on the soap into a container to use for another soap or project. Then, carefully peel off the backing and marvel at your creativity. Give it another spritz with hair spray to make sure the glitter really sticks.
