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Melt-and-pour soap bases are an excellent material for making beautiful gifts. If you are chocolate lovers, you should not miss this tutorial for making chocolate soap pralines with a strawberry “filling”. The production is not complicated; it is only about layering soap in combination with fragrance oils with chocolate and strawberry scents.
The base for making soap chocolates is soap base. Specifically, the soap base ZENIOSOAPBASE Pro-W was chosen, which is white and fast‑setting, so you do not have to wait long for the individual layers to harden. The stated weights are sufficient to make 20 pieces of soap, i.e. to fill the entire specified mould.
Working with soap bases is simple and fun, but we still bring you a few pieces of advice and tips that can make soap making easier for you.To melt the soap base, choose containers that can withstand heating in the microwave, ideally heat‑resistant glass. Plastic can absorb the scents of fragrance oils. You can also melt the soap base in a water bath; this takes longer, but there is a lower risk of the soap boiling and foaming over.If the soap has set before you have poured it, you can melt the base again in the microwave or in a water bath. Do not wash the containers from the first brown layer immediately, you can weigh the soap base for the second brown layer into them and thus save yourself washing another container.Try to spray the layers as quickly as possible after pouring the base so that no bubbles or foam remain on them.If you want to save on colorants and you have a transparent base at hand, prepare a mixture of 70 % white base and 30 % transparent. Thanks to this, you will need a slightly smaller amount of colorant; however, for simplification of the procedure, we have in this case used only white base. The stated amounts of soap base, colorants and fragrance needed are given in grams and not in percentages, precisely so that you maintain the correct proportion of ingredients to create the desired appearance of the soap. The weights are related to the mould we used; if you change the mould, you will need different amounts of soap base, but you can keep the ratios if you do not want to change the thickness of the individual layers.
Below we will introduce in more detail the individual ingredients for making soap chocolates.You will also learn more about their possible substitutions so that you can prepare soap exactly according to your ideas.
ZENIOSOPABASE Pro-W is a great base suitable even for beginners, thanks to which you will easily create soaps due to its faster setting. In addition, it is non‑sweating, so you do not have to worry that droplets of dew will appear on your soap over time.Of course, you can replace this base with any other white soap base, or combine it with a transparent base, as stated in the tips and tricks for reducing the amount of colorant needed.However, the chosen ZENICOLOR colorant is intended for ZENIOSOPABASE soap bases, and in other bases you may obtain a slightly different colour shade.
A beautiful chocolate colour is given to the soap chocolates by the ZENICOLOR SOLO colorant, which is intended to be combined with the soap base we selected. If you want a lighter shade of soap, reduce the dose of colorant. It is not necessary to dose the colorant with gram‑level precision; you can add the colorant in small amounts until you achieve the desired colour. It is also possible to use mica powders in brown, but with a larger amount of mica powder used, the soap will slightly shimmer (mica powders are shiny and gently shimmering).
To achieve the scent of chocolate and strawberries, fragrance oils were chosen, since essential oils cannot be obtained with these scents. This is precisely why fragrance oils are an excellent choice if you want a product with the scent of a specific food or fruit.If you do not like strawberries, try peppermint essential oil as a substitute for the strawberry scent and prepare chocolate‑mint soaps. In this case, replace the pink mica powder with a small amount of green mica powder. Or try another combination of scents, for example with orange essential oil.
The pink mica powder in the shade Frosty rose petal was chosen to give a light pink colour to the strawberry middle layer of the soap. However, you can also choose other pink and red shades of mica powders or ZENICOLOR colorants. In any case, a very small amount is enough to achieve a light pink shade.As we mentioned above, you can replace the strawberry fragrance oil with another scent, and at the same time you can adjust the colour of the middle layer so that it corresponds to the fragrance or essential oil you use.
IPA is a bubble remover which, when used on the still unset soap immediately after pouring into the mould, helps remove bubbles and foam, creating a smooth, uniform appearance and surface of the soap after setting.At the same time, IPA helps to bond the individual layers of soap together, so always spray the original set layer with it before pouring the next one.
For making soaps from soap bases, silicone moulds are best suited, because they are easy to handle, resistant even to higher temperatures, available in many designs, and it is very easy to remove the finished soaps from them. If you want a different shape of soap, choose from the wide range of silicone moulds. However, do not forget to change the amount of soap base needed with respect to the size of the cavity in the mould.
As mentioned, you can experiment with home recipes to achieve the desired properties. However, the final result can be influenced by many factors, such as humidity, temperature, quality of ingredients or their storage. Before you use any ingredient to produce a cosmetic product, familiarize yourself with its properties, the recommended dosage, storage conditions and safe handling. Every ingredient may potentially provoke an allergic reaction in sensitive individuals, so before using the product we recommend finding out whether you are allergic to any of the ingredients or to the finished product as a whole, e.g. by a patch test. If you have very sensitive or very acne‑prone skin, or you have other skin and health problems, we recommend that you consult a medical professional before applying a new product to the skin, whether it is a homemade cosmetic product, a pure ingredient or a commercially available product.
A sweet‑smelling little soap that looks like chocolate will delight as a small token of appreciation. And the best thing is that you can choose the scent and colour yourself.
We thank Ivana Jačalová for the great contribution.
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Until soaping time, friends.
