Charcoal Melt & Pour Soap
Create your own homemade soap with our super easy and fun melt and pour soap, featuring just three ingredients: rich cocoa butter, white melt and pour soap... and your own oats!
Make Your Own Charcoal Melt & Pour Soap
Ingredients
1kg of white M&P soap base
100g cocoa butter
1 tbsp Activated Charcoal
4ml Eucalyptus Essential Oil
Option - swap out your most loved Essentail Oil
Method
Stovetop: Melt the soap base over the stove in a glass jar.
Microwave: Melt the cubes in a heat-safe container in the microwave in 30-second bursts.
- Mix the activated charcoal, oil, and essential oil in a small container
- Chop the soap base into small pieces and melt it in the microwave in 20–30 second bursts
- Add the oil mixture to the melted soap and stir it in thoroughly
- Pour the soap into moulds
- Spray the top of each pour with isopropyl alcohol to remove bubbles (optional)
- Let the soap cool and harden for several hours or overnight
- Remove the soap from the mould and enjoy
Equipment
Loaf mould
Microwave safe bowls/pyrex jugs
Stirring utensils
Kitchen scales
Isopropyl alcohol - optional. Spray to prevent bubbles forming on the top