Teach Soap

Hey Everyone,

This week I am making gifts for Easter.. Candles, Homemade Chocolate and some Soap.

I have ordered some white M&P base and a soap mold in the shape of chocolate bars.

I couldn't find any brown soap colour on my suppliers website, so I looked up natural colourants and read that you can use Cocoa powder to colour the soap brown. I am going to attempt a few different methods, White/Brown swirl, White on brown layered and I wanted to use something that would look like coconut.. now here is the part I was thinking might not be possible, or maybe it is possible, because I have read you can use dessicated coconut in c.p soap.. but can it be used in melt and pour soap?

I wouldn't mind incorporating the coconut into the soap, and also putting some into the mold cavity first and then pouring the soap in so it gives it a coconut topping effect..

any advice or help will be appreciated

- Stacey.

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How about just using grated soap for the coconut? I do that all the time and it works really well.
You could even scent it with coconut first.

Thanks rainbow kitty, that's a really good idea! I could use the smaller finer grater for a coconut texture, and then i could also do shaved chocolate texture too.

- Stacey.

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Stacey - Victoria,Australia.
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Cocoa powder will bleed. You would be better off using chocolate mica. To get a chocolate color, it's best to start with a clear base, then add a small amount of the white base, to make it seem more opaque. You color will come better with this mix too. I wouldn't use dessicated coconut. Since when you wash, you introduce water to your soap, over time that coconut will absorb the moisture and can go moldy. I would shred you white base and use that for the "coconut".

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Irena
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Thanks Soapbuddy -

I haven't got chocolate mica, only gold, so I will change my plans and just do plain white soap and scent it.

- Stacey

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Stacey - Victoria,Australia.
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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

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