How To Make Melt & Pour Soap - Beginners Step By Step Guide

Melt and pour soap making is quick, fun and easy, whether you want a new hobby, or to make gifts for friends & family.

What you'll learn

Make a range of melt and pour soaps , that will be ready in a few hours, using pre-made soap bases, colours and fragrances.

Use a variety of techniques to create stunning visual effects in the soap

Use natural and cosmetic colours to get the look you want, whether you want fun or the natural rustic feel.

Add natural ingredients to achieve an exfoliating effect in your soap

Embed objects and soap shapes in bars or loaves of soap to create fun, fabulous soaps

How to make soap without lye

How to make soap for children to help with

Requirements

This course is for complete beginners or people who have used melt and pour soap but would like to learn additional techniques.

No previous knowledge is required as this course takes you step by step through the process

You need to be able to calculate simple percentages

Description

Take this course and you will learn how to make fun, visually stunning soaps, using pre-made bases, colours and fragrances
You will be able to create a whole range of fabulous soaps using a range of techniques, from rustic, natural soaps to fun, eye catching soaps that children and adults will love
You will have a new hobby that you can do with older children, safely in your kitchen
The course will give you all the information that you need about oils, butters, fragrances and colours, so that you can you can ingredients to your soaps to add enriching and moisturizing qualities to them. You will also see how to add natural ingredients to your soap to create exfoliating properties.
You will discover the difference between essential and fragrance oils and how and when to use them
I will share ideas for saving money on molds and equipment so you can get started cheaper.

You will make products so amazing that your friends and family will be asking you to make some for them.
The packaging ideas will enable you to create fabulous gifts for family and friends.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 How To Improve Your Course Experience

Section 2: What You Need To Get Started

Lecture 3 Introduction To What You Need to Get Started

Lecture 4 Equipment

Lecture 5 Molds

Lecture 6 Making a Wooden Loaf Mold

Lecture 7 Lining a Wooden Soap Mold

Lecture 8 Soap Bases

Lecture 9 More About Soap Bases

Lecture 10 Preparing Work Area

Lecture 11 Finding Suppliers

Section 3: Ingredients

Lecture 12 Ingredients

Lecture 13 How To Determine The Shelf Life Of Your Soap

Lecture 14 Fragrances

Lecture 15 Creating Blends

Lecture 16 Colours

Lecture 17 Using Natural Colourants in Your Soaps

Lecture 18 Using Lab Colours

Section 4: Making a Basic Bar of Soap

Lecture 19 Introduction To Making a Basic Bar of Soap

Lecture 20 Making a Basic Bar of Soap

Lecture 21 Clearing Up

Lecture 22 Making Soap Using a Natural Colourant

Lecture 23 How to Create Your Own Recipes

Lecture 24 Course Recipes

Lecture 25 How To Increase The Lather in Your Soap

Section 5: Additives

Lecture 26 Introduction To Additives

Lecture 27 Other Additives

Lecture 28 Adding Emollients to Your Soap

Lecture 29 Adding Seeds To Your Soap

Lecture 30 Making Loofah Soap

Lecture 31 Cutting The Loofah Soap

Section 6: Creating Stunning Effects in Your Soap

Lecture 32 Introduction to Creating Stunning Effects In Your Soap

Lecture 33 Creating Marbling Effects in Your Soap

Lecture 34 Creating Layers in Your Soap

Lecture 35 Making 3D Xmas Tree Soap

Section 7: Embedding

Lecture 36 Introduction To Embedding

Lecture 37 Creating Soap Shapes For Embedding

Lecture 38 Embedding Soap shapes in a bar of soap

Lecture 39 Embedding Soap shapes in a loaf of soap

Lecture 40 Pouring Soap, Turning Out and Cutting Loaf Soap

Lecture 41 Making Tube Embed For Column Soap

Lecture 42 Embedding soap shapes in a column mold

Lecture 43 Cutting Column Soap

Lecture 44 Embedding objects in your soap

Lecture 45 Turning Out Soap With Embedded Objects

Lecture 46 Mango Swirl

Section 8: Sugar Scrub Bars

Lecture 47 Sugar Scrub Bars

Section 9: Troubleshooting

Lecture 48 How To Increase The Lather in Your Soap

Lecture 49 Fixing Your Mistakes

Lecture 50 Some Troubleshooting Tips

Section 10: Wrapping and Storing Your Soap

Lecture 51 Introduction To Wrapping And Storing Your Soaps

Lecture 52 Wrapping and Storing Your Soap

Lecture 53 Labeling Your Soap

Section 11: Bonus Section

Lecture 54 Bonus Lecture

This course is for anyone looking for a fun, creative new hobby that they can do at home, and children can join in, with supervision,The complete beginner, or someone has got very basic experience with melt and pour soap and wants ideas of ways to create different effects with ingredients, techniques and colours,Anyone who is looking to produce soaps that don't contain skin irritants,Anyone who makes Cold Process Soap and wants a simple, quick way to make embeds to use in, or the decorate their soap,Anyone who is looking for a way to make some money with a side business, or just earn some extra money to fund this new hobby.