How to Make Homemade Soap Balls

Make homemade soap balls using bars os soap you have accumulated.

Soap balls are a decorative form of soap that many people enjoy displaying and using in their homes. Or put several soap balls together in a soap dish or basket and give them as gifts. Homemade soap balls are easy and fun to make, and they are a useful way to use up all those bars of soap that you have accumulated.

Things You'll Need

• Bars of soap
• Cheese grater
• Large bowl
• Water

Instructions

1. Choose your favorite soap that comes as a bar. You can use any fragrance, color or brand of bar soap to make homemade soap balls.

2. Grate your bar of soap or multiple bars of soap.

3. Place the shavings into the bowl.

4. Wet your hands with water and scoop up a handful of grated soap. Firmly press the soap shavings together.

5. Wet your hands again and add more grated soap to the soap ball you are forming. Continue adding soap shavings to your soap ball until you form a soap ball of the size that you prefer. You can make multiple small soap balls or one large soap ball with one bar of soap.

6. Adjust how much water you add to the soap shavings as needed. If the grated soap will not stick together, add more water. If the soap is beginning to lather up and become very mushy, use less water. If your soap ball is too wet, let it dry out before adding more soap shavings, or re-grate it and start over.

Tips & Warnings

• Try grating multiple bars of soap that are different colors or fragrances and combining the shavings together to form new scents and color combinations.