How to Make Melt & Pour Soap - Beginners Step by Step Guide

Name: How to Make Melt & Pour Soap - Beginners Step by Step Guide
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Melt and pour soap making is quick, fun and easy, whether you want a new hobby, or to make gifts for friends & family.

Created byShona O'Connor, Howorama Inc.

Last updated 10/2025

English

What you'll learn

Make a range of melt and pour soaps , that will be ready in a few hours, using pre-made soap bases, colours and fragrances.
Use a variety of techniques to create stunning visual effects in the soap
Use natural and cosmetic colours to get the look you want, whether you want fun or the natural rustic feel.
Add natural ingredients to achieve an exfoliating effect in your soap
Embed objects and soap shapes in bars or loaves of soap to create fun, fabulous soaps
How to make soap without lye
How to make soap for children to help with

Course content

12 sections • 55 lectures • 2h 21m total length

Introduction3:27
Learn melt-and-pour soap making from base types and equipment to fragrances, colors, and marbling, with techniques for embedding shapes, adding butters, oils, seeds, and loofah, and legal labeling requirements.
How To Improve Your Course Experience5:36
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Introduction To What You Need to Get Started1:38
Identify essential equipment, molds, bases, ingredients including butters and oils, colors natural and cosmetic, two fragrance types, and workspace setup for melt and pour soap making, with money-saving sourcing tips.
Equipment2:47
Find out what basic equipment you need to make melt and pour soap
Molds5:07
See the various types of molds that can be used to make soap
Making a Wooden Loaf Mold4:57
How to make a wooden loaf soap mold at home.
Lining a Wooden Soap Mold1:22
How to line your wooden soap mold so that you can easily remove the soap from the mold
Molds
Soap Bases3:03
Discover the different melt and pour soap bases and their uses.
Preparing Work Area0:53
How to create a suitable and safe environment for making your soap
Finding Suppliers0:31

Ingredients2:50
This lecture covers a range of ingredients that you can include in your soap making
How To Determine The Shelf Life Of Your Soap0:23
Fragrances2:13
Learn about the different types of fragrances and how to choose the best one for your products
Creating Blends5:40
Blend essential oils by balancing top, middle, and base notes within 1–2 percent of the soak base weight. Test blends with fragrance strips to adjust equal parts and avoid overpowering.
Colours1:38
See the different types of colourants available for melt and pour soap making - both natural and cosmetic and how to use them
Bleeding and Non-bleeding Colourants0:37
Using Natural Colourants in Your Soaps1:22
Using colours in your soap
Using Lab Colours4:07
Dilute lab colors in four ounces of hot water, whisk with a coffee frother, add one percent Optiphen, and store in a squeeze-top bottle for up to a year.

Introduction To Making a Basic Bar of Soap0:49
Learn to make a basic bar of soap by cutting, melting without burning or excessive bubbles, adding color and fragrance, petals, then pouring into a mold and setting it properly.
Making a Basic Bar of Soap4:15
See how to make a basic bar of soap using petals for a decorative effect
Clearing Up0:18
Clear up after making melt and pour soap by washing the containers like dishes, and scrape excess soap from the jug to prevent clogged drains.
Making Soap Using a Natural Colourant2:01
How to colour your soap using coffee to create a natural effect
How to Create Your Own Recipes1:26
Course Recipes0:03
How To Increase The Lather in Your Soap2:46

Introduction To Additives0:47
Learn how to add additives to melt and pour soap, starting with emollients like oils and butters, then make an exfoliating soap with two ingredients while protecting the mold.
Other Additives3:15
Adding Emollients such as oils and butters to Your Soap3:10
How to add cocoa butter to your soap to give it a moisturising effect
Emollients
Adding Seeds To Your Soap3:01
Demonstration of 2 methods of adding seeds to your soap to create a decorative and exfoliating effect
Adding Seeds To Your Soap
Making Loofah Soap3:24
How to use loofah in your soap to create a stunning visual effect and an exfoliating bar
Cutting The Loofah Soap2:18
See how to cut your loofah soap

Introduction to Creating Stunning Effects In Your Soap0:28
Explore two methods for creating effects in melt and pour soap, including marbling in a bar and layering to craft a rainbow soap with several layers that stick together.
Creating Marbling Effects in Your Soap2:18
Learn 2 different ways to create marbling effects in your soap
Creating Layers in Your Soap4:43
See how to make a rainbow soap using the layering technique
Layering
Making 3D Xmas Tree Soap1:52
Use of a 2 part mold to create a 3D effect

Introduction To Embedding0:37
Learn to embed shapes and objects, including toys, into melt and pour soap, from bars to loaves and through column molds, creating fun, kid-friendly soaps.
Creating Soap Shapes For Embedding2:53
How to use the unique qualities of melt and pour soap to create soap shapes
Embedding Soap shapes in a bar of soap3:33
How to embed your soap shapes into a bar of soap
Embedding soap shapes in a bar of soap
Embedding Soap shapes in a loaf of soap3:17
Learn how to make a large soap shape to embed in a loaf of soap
Pouring Soap, Turning Out and Cutting Loaf Soap4:10
See how to make the loaf soap, remove it from the mold and cut into slices
Making Tube Embed For Column Soap3:14
Watch how to use a tube mold to make a soap embed that can then be used to make other fun soaps
Embedding soap shapes in a column mold4:01
Discover how to use the tube mold embed in a column mold using a pringle tin as your mold
Cutting Column Soap1:07
Removing the soap from the mold and cutting into slices
Embedding objects in your soap6:26
Discover what items you can embed into soaps to make fun soaps for chiildren
Turning Out Soap With Embedded Objects2:14
Removing your soaps from the mold
Mango Swirl5:23
Craft a mango swirl soap using a pringle tin mold, embedding orange and white layers with clear and opaque soap, scented with mango fragrance.

Introduction To Wrapping And Storing Your Soaps0:49
Learn how to wrap, label, and store melt and pour soaps to prevent glycerin dew, keep them cool and dry, and package for gifts or sale with compliant labeling.
Wrapping and Storing Your Soap3:34
Find out the best way to wrap and store your soaps to keep their quality and avoid damage.See some fun and attractive ways of packaging your soaps to give as gifts or to sell
Labeling Your Soap1:42
Find out what you legally need to include in your labeling, as well as tips for getting repeat business if you are selling your products.

Requirements

This course is for complete beginners or people who have used melt and pour soap but would like to learn additional techniques.
No previous knowledge is required as this course takes you step by step through the process
You need to be able to calculate simple percentages

Description

Take this course and you will learn how to make fun, visually stunning soaps, using pre-made bases, colours and fragrances

You will be able to create a whole range of fabulous soaps using a range of techniques, from rustic, natural soaps to fun, eye catching soaps that children and adults will love

You will have a new hobby that you can do with older children, safely in your kitchen

The course will give you all the information that you need about oils, butters, fragrances and colours, so that you can you can ingredients to your soaps to add enriching and moisturizing qualities to them. You will also see how to add natural ingredients to your soap to create exfoliating properties.

You will discover the difference between essential and fragrance oils and how and when to use them

I will share ideas for saving money on molds and equipment so you can get started cheaper.

You will make products so amazing that your friends and family will be asking you to make some for them.

The packaging ideas will enable you to create fabulous gifts for family and friends.

Who this course is for:

This course is for anyone looking for a fun, creative new hobby that they can do at home, and children can join in, with supervision
The complete beginner, or someone has got very basic experience with melt and pour soap and wants ideas of ways to create different effects with ingredients, techniques and colours
Anyone who is looking to produce soaps that don't contain skin irritants
Anyone who makes Cold Process Soap and wants a simple, quick way to make embeds to use in, or the decorate their soap
Anyone who is looking for a way to make some money with a side business, or just earn some extra money to fund this new hobby.

How to Make Melt & Pour Soap - Beginners Step by Step Guide

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Course content

Introduction2 lectures • 9min

What You Need To Get Started8 lectures • 20min

Ingredients8 lectures • 19min

Making a Basic Bar of Soap7 lectures • 12min

Additives6 lectures • 16min

Creating Stunning Effects in Your Soap4 lectures • 9min

Embedding11 lectures • 37min

Sugar Scrub Bars1 lecture • 4min

Troubleshooting3 lectures • 8min

Wrapping and Storing Your Soap3 lectures • 6min

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