To Make Handmade Gingerbread Man Soaps, you have to go shopping for your ingredients. After that, prepare the work area with covering the table with a couple of large garbage bags to protect the table from spills and make clean up easier. Then, Have all your ingredients and tools placed out and handy. Next, Decide how many soaps you want to make in your glycerin soap batch. Forth, open the glycerin soap base and measure out how much you will need.
After you have cut off enough glycerin soap base, you need to divide that soap into very small cubes. Then, Take two or three cubes of your white glycerin soap base and put it in a glass bowl. You must Place this bowl in the microwave and melt on high for ten to fifteen seconds or until the soap has just reached the melted point. Next, remove the glass bowl from the microwave. You can Use an eye dropper to carefully pour the melted white soap base into the grooves of the soap mold designed for the icing effect. Forth, Take a clean glass bowl and melt one or two cubes of your clear glycerin soap base in the same manner as you melted the white base.
When the soap is melted, you have to color the clear soap base with a red soap dye or the Merlot Sparkle mica included in the recommended kit. You need to Use a clean eye dropper to create the bow and buttons. When the icing, bow ties and buttons are cooling in the molds, you must melt your clear soap base in the microwave. You should begin with heating in thirty second increments. When the time is up, you can remove the measuring cup and stir with a metal spoon.
After that, use clean eye droppers for both of these steps. If you are not using the kit, you must mix a small amount of green into red soap dye to make the warm brown color. You should go slowly, just adding a drop of green at a time and stirring thoroughly to get a true sense of the color. You have to make sure that it is not steaming hot or it will melt your icing, bow tie and buttons before pouring this colored and scented soap base into the molds. Once the glycerin soap base is still warm and no steam is rising from it, you can carefully pour it into the molds.
When your soaps are poured, you need to let them to cool and set for four to eight hours before removing them from their molds. Then, wrap your handmade gingerbread men soaps to protect them with using food wrap that is tightly wrapped around the soaps. You must secure it with clear tape at the back or place your glycerin soaps in small plastic craft bags and tie with a decorative bow. If you plan on making more than one batch of these gingerbread men soaps, you have to make sure to thoroughly clean all molds, bowls and utensils before beginning again.
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