Cold Process Soap Embedding Mix for Melt and Pour Soap

Creating embeds for melt and pour soap involves a slightly different process than cold process soap making.

900 g Premix from Fun with Soap
 225 ml Distilled Water
 129.34 g Caustic Soda Pearls (LYE)
 2 tbsp Mica of your choice
 1 Bubble go spray

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Basic Soapmaking Instructions
While wearing safety goggles and neoprene gloves, combine solid lye and liquid, stir well. Set aside and allow to cool 43 degrees Celcius. This is best done outside while you are standing upwind.
Combine oils and heat gently. Once the fats and oils are melted allow the temperature to drop to 43 degress celcius.
Combine lye solution and melted oils. Be careful not to splash while combining the mixtures. Stir until the mixture traces. If tracing takes more than 15 minutes, which it often does, stir for the first 15 minutes, then stir for 5 minutes at 15 minute intervals. Tracing looks like a slightly thickened custard, not instant pudding but a cooked custard. It will support a drop, or your stir marks for several seconds. Once tracing occurs…
Pour raw soap into your prepared molds. After a few days the soap can be turned out of the mold. If the soap is very soft, allow it to cure for a few days to firm the outside.
Cut soap into bars and set the bars out to cure and dry. This will allow the bar to firm and finish saponification. Place the bars on something that will allow them to breathe. Allow to cure for 4 weeks. Once Cured, Pour a thin layer of clear Melt and Pour soap into the bar mould. Spritz with Bubble Go spray. Allow to set until there is a layer of skin on the soap. Place your embed gently on the layer. Pour additional Melt and Pour soap on top of the embeds to fill the mould. Spritz with Bubble go spray and allow to cool.

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