Saturday, November 24, 2012

I made some pepermint bark soap today. I just wanted to show you guys how I did it and how it turned.

I started out with one chunk of clear melt and pour, I am not sure how much a chunk weighs but I got it at Nature's Garden Candles. After I melted the clear soap base, I added about a teaspoon of cocoa, and mixed the two together. 

The chocolate part came out a little darker then I would have wanted.  If I do it again I will probably use a white base instead of clear, to make the chocolate look a little more like milk chocolate.

 Next I melted about a chunk and a half of white shea butter base. To that I added a little peperiment extract for smell and added it to the top of the brown.

Next I melted another chunk of white shea butter and added some more pepermint extract.  I poured that in a thin layer on top of some plastic wrap.
I then melted yet another chunk of white shea butter base and added some red dye.  Because I used a white base the red came out a little on the pink side, but it ended up looking really good. I poured the pinkish red in a thin layer on top of the white and let them harden. 


Then I pealed the white and pink off of the plastic wrap and cut it into small chunks
I melted a little more white and poured it on top because the first layer had already dried so the peperiment pieces would not have stuck. Then I simply sprinkled the pieces onto the bar of soap.  

 Tada!

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