How to Make Flower Petal Soap
Maintaining your beauty requires you to spend some extra time and money from your daily routine but it is worth it. Most of us don’t pay special attention to our facial beauty and keep ourselves entirely busy in daily chores. A few minutes spend on your beauty can keep you elegant and good looking even in the old age. Soap holds a key in maintaining your skin healthy and good looking. You can find numerous brands of beauty soaps in the market but isn’t it better to make your own soap according to your skin type? It is quite cheap and easy to make your own beauty soap out of flower petals.
Things Required:
1lb melt-and-pour base soap
soap cutter
large measuring cup
flower petals
fragrance oils
mica powder
an average size pot
Instructions
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Take an average sized pot and pour water up to three inches depth into it. Let the pot over a stove so that water can simmer and gather up all the other ingredients in the mean time.
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You need to purchase melt-and-pour soap base from the market and make sure you buy the clear one, not coloured or the one with fragrance. You will have to add fragrance oils, mica colouring powders and any other desired additives to make the soap matching your needs.
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Cut the soap base into cubes with a soap cutter and put them into a large measuring cup. Place the cup in the microwave oven for 30 seconds and not more. Make sure the soap completely melts. You can stir it briskly afterwards to dissolve any chunks left.
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Add few drops of fragrance oils and a few pinches of mica powder into hot melted soap base and stir it thoroughly to mix the ingredients. If you see the soap has started to make a skin on the top surface, place it back in the microwave for some more seconds.
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Now place the cup containing soap into the water pot you set for boiling at the beginning. Reduce heat below the pot.
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Take the flower petals, like silk rose petals, and put them into the melted soap. Keep stirring for a while and then use chopsticks to pick out the petals from the soap. Shake off the excess and place the petals one by one on the wire rack for drying.
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Once you have coated all the flower petals with soap, let them completely dry and then seal them in a plastic bag for storage.
