Before the holidays, it's decided, we start making our own soaps to offer! A gift idea to make yourself thanks to our gourmet and ultra easy DIY recipe for Christmas spice soap.
It's been a while since you hesitate to make your own homemade cosmetics and make your own soaps, but handling caustic soda has always dissuaded you? Never mind, we invite you to try our DIY Christmas soap so easy to make that you can even do it with children. Not bad is not it ?
No need to deprive yourself of the joys of soap making home made for so little, we advise you to cheat a little by using neutral soap like Marseille soap as a base for making your little Christmas soaps. In addition to being suitable for all skin types, this base will allow you to start making your own soaps without risk and easily create a personalized gift for your loved ones.
It is clear that this year more than ever, offering a soap made by yourself is a Christmas gift idea that is really good in these times when hand washing is a gesture that we constantly repeat throughout the day. So you are sure that your homemade gift will quickly find use!
Making your own soap is good. Make one that will remind your loved ones of all the good times you spent together during the holidays with its Christmas scent, even better! Then we reveal the recipe for a deliciously gourmet gingerbread soap.
The ingredients you need
– 250 g of unscented Marseille soap in flakes or grating bars (14 euros on amazon.fr) – this is the raw material for your soaps to avoid using caustic soda
– 20 g of shea butter (18 euros on amazon.fr) or cocoa – to give the soap a nourishing aspect
– 25 cl of orange blossom floral water (5 euros on amazon.fr) – a hydrosol with revitalizing and soothing properties for the skin
– 1 tablespoon of honey – to nourish the skin
– 5 drops of gingerbread flavoring (10 euros on amazon.fr) – to flavor the soaps
– 6 g of mica colored in a warm brown shade (14 euros on amazon.fr) – to color your soaps
* A mold that offers several shapes of gingerbread men (7 euros on amazon.fr) – to give your soaps the look of real gingerbread. We advise you to choose it in silicone because it is a flexible material that facilitates demolding.
It's up to you to adapt the amounts of each ingredient to the number of soaps you want to slip under the tree and to the size of your molds of course.
Step by step recipe for little Christmas soaps with spices
- Melt the Marseille soap in flakes in a double boiler or grate your bar of soap beforehand to obtain pieces of soap that are easier to melt.
- Once all the soap has melted, add the chosen vegetable butter and the soap honey to the container.
- In a saucepan, heat the floral water, being careful not to boil it.
- When the floral water is hot, quickly pour it over the soap, honey and nourishing butter (now out of the double boiler), mixing well with a whisk until you get a homogeneous mixture.
- Add the gingerbread flavor drops and colored mica to the mixture, then mix again. Your homemade soap preparation is ready!
- Pour the formula of your spiced soaps into the different spaces of the mold and let the soaps take shape (harden) by cooling for at least half a day before unmolding them.
- At the end of the time, if the soaps are still too soft in your opinion to try to unmold them, feel free to let them air dry for one more day. It is only after they have solidified well that you can unmold them without damaging them.
- If your soap bars have any unsightly irregularities after removal from the mold, you just need to sand them gently with fine-grit paper to smooth their surface so that they are even prettier.
- Here you are with beautiful spicy soaps in the shape of gingerbread men that have their color and smell. Chewable!
- All you have to do is wrap them in a pretty paper with ribbon before sliding them under the tree to please the whole family.
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