How to Make Baby Soap Molds

The good news about baby soap molds is that there are plenty of ways to make them. You can mold them out of clay, make them with objects shaped the way you want, adapt candy molds or anything that holds water, and/or use cookie cutters to cut alphabet letters/baby animals/etc. out of thin bars of soap. The way you go is up to you!

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Going with clay molds
• - Clay that can be fired
• - Clay tray: compartments filled w/clay that can be fired
• Going with objects that are the shape you want
• -Clay tray: compartments filled w/clay that can be fired
• Going with objects that hold water
• - Toy, candy mold, whatever you find
• Going with cookie cutters
• - Cookie cutters that go with the occasion

1. Clay Molds:
   a. Take some clay and make it into the shape you have in mind. For baby soap you could make it an alphabet letter, baby animal, rocking horse, etc. Form it so one side is scooped out and the other - the side that protrudes - has a design on the outside. (Too much detail won't transfer so make it a simple design.)
   b. Fire the clay so the mold becomes hard.
   c. Put clay into a square or rectangular clay tray. It will have cells filled with clay, but held to a square shape by the wood that forms the sides of the cell. There will be many of these square cells in the overall clay tray.
   d. Push the fired mold into the clay to form the heart-shaped impression that will serve as the mold, one square at a time. In this way you will make several molds with the same design.
   e. Fire each of the squares of clay.
   f. After they've cooled, spray with a no-stick spray.
   g. Pour the soap into the mold.
   h. Wait for it to dry.
   i. Remove it from the mold.
   j. Voila! Baby soap.

2. Objects that are shaped the way you want:
   a. Get out your clay-tray (described in Step 1 above.)
   b. Press the object into the clay to form the an impression that will serve as the mold.
   c. Fire each of the squares of clay.
   d. After they've cooled, spray with a no-stick spray.
   e. Pour the soap into the mold.
   f. Wait for it to dry.
   g. Remove it from the mold.
   h. Voila! Baby soap.

3. Objects that hold water, like candy molds or kids toys or decorative dishes or muffin tins:
   a. Find a toy you like and open it so the hollow side has the shape you want or use a candy mold or some other water-holding shape.
   b. Pour the soap into the mold.
   c. Remove the soap when cooled.
   d. Voila! Baby soap.
   NOTE: You shouldn't have to treat these before pouring the soap. If the soap doesn't come right out, cool it a bit and try again.

4. Cookie Cutters - my favorite because I have zero in the clay molding department:
   a. Pour the soap into a large jelly roll pan or other pan with sides.
   b. Wait for it to dry.
   c. Use metal cookie cutters in cute shapes to cut the soap.
   d. Remove the shapes.
   e. Voila! Baby soap.
   (You can save the scraps or make them into soap balls.)

Tips & Warnings

• You don't want to line the molds with oil that will be melted by the heat of the soap when you pour it into the molds.
• Try one ahead of time to be sure it works as you intend and looks the way you expect!

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