Easy Coffee Bean Melt and Pour Soap Recipe
Learn how to make your own coffee bean melt and pour soap. It is super easy and you will learn a few new techniques while making it.
Servings: 2 Bars of soap
Cost: $5
Equipment
- Scale
- Microwave Safe Container
- Spatula
- Rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle
- Silicone mold
- Soap cutter
- Infrared thermometer (optional)
- Skewer stick
Ingredients
- 4 ounces Clear Melt and Pour Soap
- 4 ounces White Melt and Pour Soap
- Whole coffee beans
- 0.24 ounce Fragrance Oil
Instructions
Part 1: Clear Soap Base With Coffee Beans
- Cut your clear melt and pour soap base into 1 inch cubes. The cubes can be slightly larger or smaller, the key is to keep the cubes all about the same size.
- Weigh out 1 ounce of the clear soap cubes and place it into a microwave safe container.
- Place the soap in the microwave to melt it in 20 second intervals. In between each interval you will want to stir the soap well.
- Pour the clear melted soap base in the mold.
- Spray with rubbing alcohol to get rid of any bubbles.
- Allow this to cool slightly. You want there to be a thin layer of cooled soap, but not all the way cooled. (If you are not sure if there is a layer on the top, you can carefully touch it with your finger.
- Grab your whole coffee beans. Gently place the beans on your soap, being careful not to break the thin layer on top. When you are placing them, try to imagine the lines where you will be cutting the finished soap.
- Weigh out 1.5 ounce of clear soap base and melt in the microwave.
- Stir the soap until it cools to about 130°F
- Spray the coffee beans and the soap they are on with rubbing alcohol.
- Pour the newly melted soap on top of where the coffee beans are.
- Spray with rubbing alcohol.
- Use a skewer stick to adjust the coffee beans back to where you want them.
- Allow this to cool until there is a thin layer of soap on the top, but again not all the way cooled.
- Weigh out another 1.5 ounce of clear soap base and melt in the microwave.
- Spray the soap with rubbing alcohol.
- Pour the clear melt and pour soap on it.
- Spray again with rubbing alcohol.
- Allow to cool completely.
Part 2: Cutting and Placing Clear Coffee Bean Soap
- After the soap with the coffee bean embeds has cooled completely, remove it from the mold.
- Take a soap cutter and cut the soap into thirds.
- In 1 soap mold, you are going to place the cut soap directly in the center of the mold.
- In another mold, you are going to place the cut soap on the two ends of the mold, leaving the center open.
Part 3: Adding the White Melt and Pour
- Cut your white melt and pour soap base into 1 inch cubes.
- Weight out 4 ounces and place into a microwave safe container.
- Place the soap in the microwave to melt it in 20 second intervals. In between each interval you will want to stir the soap well.
- After the soap is fully melted, add fragrance oil and mix well.
- Spray the mold and the clear melt and pour that is in there with rubbing alcohol.
- Make sure that your soap is melted, but not super hot. (You don’t want to accidentally melt the clear soap when pouring it in). I tend to pour at about 130° F.
- Pour the white soap into your molds, filling the gaps.
- Spray with rubbing alcohol to pop any bubbles.
- Allow to cool completely and remove from the mold.