Here's a soap that makes a great gift, or just a special treat for yourself. These are called "loofah scrubby soaps". And we're going to start by using this natural loofah here, that has been soaking in water for about five minutes, and then dried off. We're going to use a serrated knife, and we're going to cut a slice that's about one and a quarter inch thick. This is really simple to do once it has soaked. We're going to made a little mold for that by putting it in a piece of parchment paper, and before we wrap it up, we're going to spritz it with rubbing alcohol. Whenever you layer your soaps, or embed something in soap, the rubbing alcohol is a necessary step. It will help the soap adhere to it. Once it's in the center here, we're going to just bring up the sides, and we're going to use rubber bands to hold this paper up in place, just like that. We'll set that aside. And in this measure cup I have the clear olive oil soap base and there are six ounces in there, precut, and I'm going to melt that in the microwave. Okay, so we'll check that, give it a stir. And I have here a seafoam green coloring and I'm just going to put a drop or two to my liking in there, and I'm also going to add my fragrance which is a stress relief formula. It smells really citrusy. Give that a stir up. I'm going to add one more green. And then we're just going to bring our form over that we have formed earlier. I made sure that the rubber band is right up to the very top of that loofah that's inside, and one down lower holding onto it. And we're going to pour our soap right in the center, covering the loofah. Just keep pouring and you can see all the holes filling up, until the soap comes and completely covers it, at the very top. That looks good right there. It's hot, I don't know if you can see much of it in there, but it comes right up to the top, and we're going to let that set up. Alright, and to finish off our loofah scrubby, we have had it sitting out, and it feels set up. You can even put these in the refrigerator to set up if you want to for a bit, before you pop them out of their molds. But we're just going to remove the rubber bands and gently peel off our parchment paper. Smooth it out if you've got any little flakes hanging on, you can just smooth it out. And there you have a loofah scrubby soap!
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