Gingerbread Man Christmas Soap
Run, run as fast as you can to your local dollar store! This inexpensive homemade Christmas soap craft is a great idea for a stocking stuffer or neighbor gift. You can even use cookie cutters to create the adorable shape.
Materials:
- Melt & Pour glycerin soap
- Brown soap coloring (or yellow, red, and blue food coloring)
- Soap fragrance of your choice
- Gingerbread man cookie cutter
- Measuring cups (microwave safe)
- Aluminum foil
- Bobby Pin
- Stirring spoons
- Microwave
- Clear plastic wrap
- Cutting board and knife
- Rubbing alcohol in a spritzer bottle
- Eye dropper
Instructions:
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Tear off a small sheet of aluminum foil.
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Wrap aluminum foil around the bottom of your cookie cutter.
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Cut soap into ice cubed sized chunks.
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Add approximately 3 oz of soap into a measuring cup. Microwave 30 seconds and then additional 10 second increments until all soap is melted. Stir with spoon.
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Add brown (or yellow, red and blue) color additive and stir.
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Pour brown soap into the gingerbread cookie cutter like a soap mold.
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Spritz with rubbing alcohol to remove air bubbles.
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Allow to dry 1 - 2 hours.
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Remove solidified gingerbread man soap from the cookie cutter.
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Using a bobby pin, carve the eyes, mouth, buttons, decorative elements into the soap.
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Add approximately 2 oz of white soap into a measuring cup. Microwave 30 seconds all white soap is melted. Stir with spoon.
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Spritz gingerbread man soap with rubbing alcohol. This will help the white soap to adhere in the next step.
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Using the eye dropper, decorate the gingerbread man soap with white soap.
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Spritz with rubbing alcohol.
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Allow soap to solidify 5 to 10 minutes.
- Wrap soap in clear plastic wrap.
How to Make Christmas Gingerbread Soap:
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