Things You'll Need:
- 3 bars white soap
- 2 bars of green, blue, or pink soap
- Four or five 8 inch squares of fabric
- A couple yards of satin ribbon
- Flower petals-optional
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Step 1
Cut the 3 bars of white soap and the 2 bars of the colored soap into small pieces and drop into a medium sized bowl. Pour 1 1/2 cups of boiling water, perhaps adding 1 teaspoon of your favorite perfume, over the soap pieces in the bowl. Wait for it to cool a bit and then mix it up a bit with your hands. Let it rest for 20 minutes and then divide the soap into 4 or 5 parts. Roll each part into a ball (Decide now if you want the flower petals or not. If so, then roll the moist ball into the dry flower petals).and put each ball on to a square of fabric. Pull fabric closely around each soap ball. Gather it at the top and tie up with the satin ribbon.
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Step 2
Hang the soap balls to dry. The soap will be dry when it is completely hard, about 4 days. When dry, open the fabric and use the soap or give to a friend, rewrapping in the fabric and tying with the ribbon.
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Step 3
Gift ideas: if you use white/pink soap or white/blue soap, you can re-wrap the dry soap in colored cellophane and attach to a baby shower gift.
Or buy a small basket, cushion the bottom with shredded paper, put some soap balls and herbal tea packets and a bottle of fragrant bath oil for a nice gift to someone needing some pampering or recovering from the hospital.
Comments
sonni57 said
on 3/15/2009 Fun idea I'm going to try it out thanks for sharing.
amazedanew said
on 3/5/2009 Very cool! Thanks! I can't wait to try this! I also want to start making candles--sounds much fun. I've recommended you :)
herbalist said
on 2/25/2009 Thank you so much and I'm glad you enjoyed my article!
chenderson00 said
on 2/22/2009 Very neat. 5*s I have to try it sometime.