Homemade soap with petals made from a ready-made base.

To begin with, we will collect what we need to make household soap, namely:
- Soap base, in this case it is baby soap;
- Base oils: almond, cedar and olive oil. You can do one thing, or you can do anything else, but it is important that these oils are odorless;
- Glycerin and vitamin E (optional);
- Essential oils - which ones like;
- Fillers - again at will. I have flower petals here.
- Water for diluting the soap mass

I melted the soap in a water bath, so I still need dishes for it, and in addition molds are needed for subsequent casting.

Prepare the components of our future soap for work.

We will select and we will put in the cold water flower petals. Here I used African marigolds. Beautifully sounds, but, however, nothing particularly exotic: the so-called group of high varieties with large inflorescences. The flowers were dried from the fall and now, they waited for the application.

Running a little forward I will say that not with all the petals I have a successful soap. For example, the petals of a red rose in a soapy mass turned green and became more like a tea brew ... I had to throw it away.

I tried the petals of the carnation, but, probably, they had been soaked for too long - they disintegrated, and they did not want to do soap with them.

But the marigolds did not disappoint: nice painted soap and remained small impregnations.

Grind soap on the grater. It always seemed to me that this was a terribly unpleasant procedure. In fact, this is not long and not difficult, and soap so beautifully curls!

We take the essential oil, measure the required amount of each, combine all this in a bowl, which can then be put in hot water. Proportion: I took a teaspoon of each of the three oils and a teaspoon of glycerin. Vitamin "E" I also in the oil solution, dripped a little less than a teaspoon.

We warm the basics in a water bath. Add soap shavings and a little water. We wait until the mass melts. At me process has gone quickly enough when began to add hot water in a shaving - the mass very soon begins to resemble a liquid dough.

To the softened mass, we add essential oils. I'm just starting to study aromatherapy, so Svetlana Mirgorodskaya's book "Aromology: QUANTUM SATIS" helps me a lot. There are not only different properties of oils, but also about the doses of each oil for use in cosmetic preparations in terms of the weight of the base - what the beginner needs. But in any case, with essential oil, I try not to be particularly zealous and put on a few drops, until you like the smell.

It seemed to me that the aroma of citrus fruits would suit the yellow color of the petals, so I added orange and lemon oil. And to get a more interesting - added vanillin to this. A real confectioner. The main thing is that now no one confused the soap with food. ;)

Essential oil in me, probably, is not the most "correct" - not very expensive, but for the first samples it seems to me quite acceptable. In the end, it's used for outdoor use, and even then water will be washed away. And in general about the properties of oils and the corresponding prices, probably, we'll talk separately.

After the addition of the petals and some water in which they were soaked, the mass became creamy yellow. Where are our molds? I'm still using what is at hand: small plastic food containers and children's sand molds. The teaspoon in the picture shows the scale.

Generally, small shaped molds help to make the technology almost non-waste: if there is not enough for the whole mold, you can add another mass, and the soap will be layered.

What else are good little molds - soap in them very quickly freezes. Literally in a couple of hours you can try to pull out what happened. And to make sure that the soap is straight, the mold can be held in hot water for a while.

We'll wait until the rest of the soap freezes, we remove it from the mold, we cut it, we dry it. Done! We admire the beautiful home soap made by our own hands