Mini Birthday Cake Soap Recipe

Here’s a unique yet easy to make melt and pour soap recipe utilizing a mold you can find in most supermarkets. I found this in the frozen dessert section. This five-ounce plastic container recently held a very good key lime pie. Instead of using liquid yellow colorant, I opted for a very natural colorant – red palm oil.

Mini Birthday Cake Soap

Ingredients:

5 ounces white soap base OR shea butter soap base

10 – 12 drops red palm oil

1/4 teaspoon lemon essential oil

Mold:

5 ounce round mold

Instructions:

Slice the soap base into small cubes. Temperature should be MEDIUM. Cover your melting soap base.

Just before the soap is fully melted, add the palm oil and essential oil. Stir well. Slowly pour into the mold. Spritz away bubbles with rubbing alcohol. Allow soap to harden in fridge, freezer, or remain at room temperature. Remove from mold. Make sure soap is at room temperature before wrapping. Wrap in cling wrap and label.

As red palm oil is a heavier type of oil, as opposed to lighter weight oil such as grape seed, only a small amount is needed. Red palm oil colors well and if too much is added it won’t be fully mixed. If using a modest amount, the color remains in the soap and it will have white bubbles.

Red palm oil is a beneficial skincare ingredient. Not only does the color enhance the finished bar of soap, this African palm oil contains lots of skin-loving vitamin A and vitamin E. I also recommend the Alaffia brand of red palm oil because it doesn’t deprive Orangutans of food and shelter, and it comes from the place where the palm tree originated: West Africa.

To read more about making and presenting unique soaps for birthdays and any other holiday, check out the eBook “Happy Birthday Melt and Pour Soap Recipes.”