How to Make Decorative Christmas Soaps

A soap Christmas star

Making your own Christmas soap shows your friends and family how much you care about the smallest details of your decorating. This is a quick and easy project that you will be proud to put by your kitchen and bathroom sinks. Because they look so nice, no one will even realize it's real soap.

Things You'll Need

• Glycerin
• Heat-and-pour soap
• Color drops
• Peppermint and pine or balsam scent drops
• Silk holly leaves
• Artificial holly berries
• Tongues
• Wax paper
• Square soap molds
• Small round soap molds
• Toothpicks
• Spray bottle filled with alcohol
• Candy or candle thermometer

Instructions

1. Put out some square molds, and lightly spray them with alcohol. Alcohol keeps bubbles from forming on your soap. Melt glycerin in the microwave to about 160 degrees. Pour about 1/4 to 1/2 inch into the mold. While the glycerin is still liquid, lay in a holly leaf or two. Let that start to set up and harden.

2. Melt more glycerin. This time, when you take it out, add some green color drops and a balsam scent. Mix the ingredients. Spray the hardening glycerin lightly with the alcohol. Pour the colored glycerin in and fill the mold. When it is hard, pop it out of the mold and you will be able to see the leaf. Place soaps on a nice dish and garnish with artificial holly berries.

3. Melt some white soap in the microwave. Spray your small round molds with alcohol. When the soap is completely liquid, mix in some peppermint scent. Pour into the molds. Drop a drop of red coloring in the center of the poured soap. Take a toothpick and swirl the red in circles to look like a peppermint. Let them harden for a few hours. Pop the hardened soaps out of the mold and place in a candy dish. Garnish with some artificial holly leaves, and place by the sink.

4. Melt glycerin or clear melt, and pour soap in the microwave. You will be making three different colors, but you will need to do one batch at a time. When it is completely liquid, mix in green coloring a drop at a time until it is dark green. Then mix in your pine or balsam scent. Put it back in the microwave and heat for about another 20 seconds. Pick up your artificial holly leaves with tongues. Dip them into the soap mix for about 10 seconds. Let the excess drip, and place on a piece of wax paper to dry. Place on a Christmas dish and set by the sink. Each leaf is a single hand wash.

Tips & Warnings

• There are many molds you can use for Christmas, such as stars and Christmas balls. Be creative and add glitter or rope, for soap on a rope.

• Be careful working with melted soap or glycerin. You can get burned.