A photo: Tatyana Kondratieva, I would like to start with the creation of mandarin soap, in time for the New Year to have time to make gifts to relatives and friends. They will be pleasantly surprised, because in the shops of such soap you can not buy, and the similarity with the present symbol of the New Year is very paradoxical! I'll give my recommendations on the purchase of materials at the end of the master class. To create a soap mandarin, we will need:
- soap bases of Russian production: matte white and transparent. In the shops, it goes in buckets of 1 kg, take each one in a bucket, all we use to create our own beautiful and authorial soap. From this volume you will get 7-8 mandarins;
- Mandarin essential oil. You can order in stores for goods by soap manufacture or search in pharmacies of the city. If you are allergic, then buy a Mandarin fragrance in the store;
- Silicone form "purified mandarin." You can order it in the online store. The price, of course, is not cheap, but the form will serve you for a very long time, it will be enough for you for 300 pieces of soap;
- pigment orange. You can buy red and yellow pigments and mix them;
- medical alcohol in a spray bottle or vodka. Without these ingredients, no soap can be cooked;
- heat-resistant dishes for smelting the base. If there is no microwave, you can melt the base in a water bath.
We call children and take a great interest together, being in soap is positive and easy!
Photo: Tatiana Kondratyeva1. The form is fixed with rubber bands, they go in the set.
Photo: Tatiana Kondratyeva2. Cut a small piece of matte white base, melt it. The main thing - that she did not boil! So watch out, especially if you use a microwave.
Photo: Tatiana Kondratieva3. We process the form with alcohol, slightly sprinkling it from the inside. Pour some molten base, and start to twist the mold so that the base covers the form with a light layer. So we “emit” the white streaks and fibers that this mandarin has.
Photo: Tatiana Kondratyeva4. Leave the form alone. Let's take the "pulp" of our soap mandarin. To do this, in the same proportions, we take a white and transparent base so that the soap turns out to be realistic, we remember that in life the mandarin is very juicy and transparent! Let's melt the basics together. Do not be afraid to prepare bases for soap anymore, because soap making is a wasteless process. It is enough to add more basics, melt it, paint and pour another soap.5. For the aroma of soap, add 5-7 drops of essential oil of mandarin and orange pigment. Stir well.
Photo: Tatyana Kondratieva6.Cool it down a bit so that the base is not hot, otherwise it will “melt” our white layer, which we initially poured into the mold. Be sure to spray the mold with alcohol, otherwise the white layer will peel off from the main one. Alcohol binds the layers of soap!
Photo: Tatiana Kondratyeva7. Fill our fragrant bright base, sprinkle with alcohol, removing bubbles from the surface.
Photo: Tatiana Kondratyeva8. When the soap hardens (in our case, the soap is very heavy and voluminous, you need to wait about 30 minutes), remove the rezinochki and extract the soap. It jumps out of a silicone form very easily!
Photo: Tatiana Kondratyeva9. For packaging, you can use cellophane. And it will be better and more colorful to decorate the soap with the help of corrugated paper. You can buy it in bookstores or in the departments of stationery. Cut off a piece. Wrap our mandarin.
Photo: Tatyana Kondratieva10. Tie with a ribbon or twine. Attach a tag with a wish or a card. And here it is, a fragrant and aromatic gift is ready! Read more:
