Easy DIY Flower Soap

7 Materials
$25
1 Hour
Easy

Create fragrant, flowering soap to make hand washing a little more enjoyable these days.

An easy gift and satisfying craft project, ready in under an hour!


We’re on the downhill slope of summer with fall less than a month away. While the summer blooms are waning, you can satisfy your craving for flowers with this easy craft project!

I started with half a package of Goat Milk Suspension Soap Base I had leftover, along with some Shea Butter Soap Base. The soap bases come in 2 lb. packages.

Both are ‘melt and pour’ soap bases so you can use either to make your soap; shea butter is known for its moisturizing qualities.

I’ve found the soap bases at Hobby Lobby and Michaels in the past, but both of my area stores were out of stock when I checked a couple of weeks ago so I ordered the soap from Amazon.


If you find the soap at Michaels or Hobby Lobby, make sure you've downloaded their mobile app to your smart phone so you can access their weekly 40% coupons when you shop.

The soap base comes scored in cubes and is soft, so it’s easy to cut with a kitchen knife and break off the amount you want to use. Follow the directions on the package for melting, either in the microwave or using a double boiler. I used the microwave, heating it

in 30 second intervals on high, stirring until melted.

I recommend only melting 1 lb. at a time instead of the entire 2 lb. package.

Once your soap base is melted, add the fragrance oil of your choice.

I used approximately 20 drops of Lavender-Rosemary Oil for 2 lbs. of soap base. Stir in your colorant a few drops at a time, until you reach your desired shade.

Note: Make sure the colorant you use is designated as safe for skin.


Pour your soap mix into your molds and allow it to set until firm, about 40 minutes.

When bars are set, flex the silicone molds and the soap should release easily.

The cavities of my molds hold about 3 ounces and I got 14 bars of soap out of 3 pounds of soap base.

Bonus: The silicone flower molds I used are food-grade silicone

so they can be used for baking flowers too. :)

I already had the colorant, fragrance and half of the soap base from another project, so after purchasing another 2 lbs. of soap and the molds, my 14 bars of soap cost $1.78 each.


These decorative soap flowers are easy to “grow” and would be appreciated by neighbors,friends and teachers in our new era of constant hand washing!


In addition to being useful and pretty, they take less than 10 minutes to come together, ready to gift in under an hour, so they check all the boxes for a satisfying craft to make


Be sure to check out the original blog post HERE which also shares:


  • Affordable silicone flower soap dishes for gift wrapping soap
  • How to prevent “glycerin dew” when the humidity is high
  • Sources and links for oil, colorant, molds and soap
  • 14 other creative craft projects! 

You might also want to buzz over to see Bee-utiful DIY Lavender-Rosemary Soap Bars!

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