Last Friday, I made some bars of soap! I can’t take much credit for this project, since I had a lot of help from a wonderful subscription box. This was a fun way to relax on a Friday afternoon, and I enjoyed knowing I could fully complete a project from start to finish!
Homegrown Collective is kind of like “Pinterest in a box.” Each month they send a special curated box filled with everything you need to make eco-friendly projects. Key words: everything you need. No more rounding up supplies only to find you’re missing an “ingredient” when you go to start the project!
This month’s box contained a melt & pour soap kit.
I was really excited about everything in the box! Melt and pour soap is very easy to make, since you just have to… yep… melt the bar (grated first) and pour it into the mold along with any add-ins.
Here’s what was included:
-directions and recipes for three kinds of soap
-goats milk melt and pour soap base
-clear melt and pour soap base
-white melt and pour soap base
-metal grater
-loofa
-mason jar
-stirring sticks
-pipette (for transferring oils)
-essential oils: lavender/chamomile, cedarwood, and tuberose
-rolled oats
-chamomile flowers
-dead sea salts
-activated charcoal
-three plastic soap molds
The first kind of soap was charcoal and cedarwood. This is a nice, manly soap that Tad will definitely enjoy using! The charcoal is detoxifying to the skin, and the cedarwood has a woosdy scent.
The next soap was dead sea salt and chamomile soap. This bar also included a loofa to cut up and put in the mold if you wanted. I got a little crazy with this one and left out the dead sea salts and loofah and swapped out lavender petals (from another box). So what I really made was lavender chamomile soap! The clear base allowed the flower petals to be visible and suspended in the soap, which was neat!
The last kind of soap was oatmeal, luffa, and tuberose soap. The tuberose essential oil smells amazing, and this was definitely my favorite soap. The oats add moisture to the skin, and the loofa exfoliates. I liked the goats milk base as well!
Here are all three soaps I made!
There were plenty of leftover add-on items to make many more bars of soap, so I ordered more soap base from an etsy seller so I can make more soap for gifts!
Homegrown Collective sends out a completely different box every month, so I can’t wait to see what next month’s box contains! As a busy mom, having everything all together in one kit really helps me out, plus I get to try new things that I maybe wouldn’t without this little “push”!
Learn more about the Homegrown Collective here!
Have you ever made soap?
