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Soap bases are an excellent material for preparing wonderful 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 simply a matter of layering soap in combination with fragrance oils with chocolate and strawberry scents.
The basis 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 specified 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 production easier for you.For melting 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; it takes longer, but there is a lower risk of the soap boiling and foaming over.If your soap has set before you have poured it, you can remelt the base 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 save yourself washing another container.Try to spray the layers as quickly as possible after pouring the base, so that bubbles or foam do not remain on them.If you want to save on colourants and you have a clear base at hand, prepare a mixture of 70 % white base and 30 % clear. Thanks to this, you will need a slightly smaller amount of colourant; however, for the sake of simplifying the procedure, we have used only white base in this case. The specified amounts of soap base, colourants and fragrance are given in grams and not in percentages precisely so that you maintain the correct ratio of raw materials to achieve the desired appearance of the soap. The weights are related to the mould that 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 the individual raw materials for making soap chocolates in more detail.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 also for beginners, thanks to which you can 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 mentioned in the tips and tricks for reducing the amount of colourant needed.However, the selected ZENICOLOR colourant is intended for ZENIOSOPABASE soap bases and in other bases you may achieve a slightly different colour shade.
The beautiful chocolate colour is given to the soap chocolates by the ZENICOLOR SOLO colourant, which is designed to be combined with the soap base we have chosen. If you want a lighter shade of soap, reduce the dose of colourant. It is not necessary to dose the colourant with gram precision; you can add the colourant in small amounts until you achieve the desired colour. It is also possible to reach for mica powders in brown, but with a larger amount of mica powder used, the soap will slightly shimmer (mica powders are glossy and gently shimmering).
To achieve a scent of chocolate and strawberries, fragrance oils were chosen, as it is not possible to obtain essential oils with these scents. Precisely for this reason, fragrance oils are an excellent choice if you want a product with the scent of a particular food or fruit.If you do not like the smell of strawberries, try peppermint essential oil as a replacement 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.
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 colourants. In any case, a very small amount is enough to achieve a light pink shade.As we mentioned above, the strawberry fragrance oil can be replaced 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 on still unset soap immediately after pouring into the mould helps to remove bubbles and foam, thus 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 hardened layer before pouring the next one.
For making soaps from soap bases, silicone moulds are best suited, as they are easy to handle, resistant even to higher temperatures, available in many designs and it is very simple to remove 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 adjust the amount of soap base needed with respect to the size of the cavity in the mould.
As mentioned, you can experiment with homemade recipes to achieve the desired properties. However, the final result can be influenced by many factors, such as humidity, temperature, quality of raw materials or their storage. Before you use any raw material to make a cosmetic product, familiarize yourself with its properties, recommended dosage, storage conditions and safe handling. Every raw material may have the potential to trigger an allergic reaction in sensitive individuals, so before using the product we recommend finding out whether you are allergic to any of the raw materials or the final product, e.g. by a skin test. If you have very sensitive or very acne‑prone skin, or if 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 raw material or a commercially available product.
A sweet‑smelling little soap that looks like chocolate will delight as a small token. 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 again, friends.
