Learn how to keep cosmetic additives suspended in your melt and pour soap designs with the tips and tricks in this short video. We share three techniques we have found useful for suspending additives. Glitter, botanical powders, oatmeal, clays, and herbs are popular cosmetic additives that add an extra layer of excitement to your soap designs. As well as beautify your soap design, many of these additives provide other beneficial properties to soaps. Watch this video to learn more.
In this video, we created four different bars of soap.
The slightly orange bar of soap was made using
Suspension White Melt & Pour Soap,
Stained Glass Citrus Orange Liquid Color,
Apricot Seed Powder, and
Orange Guava Odor Neutralizing Fragrance Oil. The soap was molded in
Crafter's Choice® Short (Small) Loaf Silicone Mold.
The white oatmeal soap was made with
Premium Goat Milk Soap,
Oat Scrub,
Honey Almond Fragrance Oil, and
Vanilla Color Stabilizer. The soap was molded in
Crafter's Choice® Short (Small) Loaf Silicone Mold.
The yellow soap was made with
Suspension Clear Soap Base,
Suspension White Soap Base,
Lemon Peel Granules, and
Lemon Verbena Fragrance Oil. It was molded in
Crafter's Choice® Short (Small) Loaf Silicone Mold with the top accent created from
Milky Way® Citrus Small Round Soap Mold.
The glitter bar was made with
Premium Crystal Clear Soap,
Caribbean Blue Glitter, and
Island Nectar Fragrance. It was molded using an
Oval Clamshell.