Make Your Own Tie Dye Soap

I’m a bit of a newbie to the soap game. I love the idea of making my own soaps (especially for gift giving and hostess gifts), but since I haven’t had much experience in the soap world yet, I thought I’d start off with a simpler idea for my first try. If you’re also a newbie but have been wanting to make your own, let’s do this one together!

Related: How to Tie-Dye – Beginner’s Guide

Supplies:
–white melt-and-pour soap
-microwave safe container
–essential oil of your choice
–soap dye
–soap thermometer
-plastic soap mold
–popsicle sticks for stirring
-spray bottle with rubbing alcohol 

Cut your melt-and-pour soap with a sharp knife into 1/2″ cubes and place 2 cups of soap in a pourable microwave safe container. Heat for 30 seconds at a time, stirring at the end of each interval.

Once the soap is completely smooth and melted, allow the soap to cool a bit until it reaches 145° (use the soap thermometer to track the temperature). Once the soap has cooled, add the desired amount of essential oil and stir until combined.

Use the dye droppers to drop dots of dye onto your empty soap molds, spreading out the colors if using more than one. 

Pour the soap into the molds. Stop pouring when the mold is halfway full and spray some alcohol on the soap to spread the color. Repeat with another spray of alcohol once the mold is full and use your popsicle stick to move the color around the mold.

Keep swirling until you like the pattern you have, and then let your soap harden.  Once it’s set, pop the soap out of the mold, and you’re done!

I will say that marbling and tie dye can be a bit of a hit or miss process (even though you may do the same exact thing both times).

You may have a dud soap that just doesn’t spread the color like you want, but keep making them! You’ll still get several good ones in, I promise! You can even get a fun mold to make a cool shape with your soap as well. 

I like to cut the sides of the soap with a knife after popping them out of the mold to give them even more of that handmade look. I love marbled/tie dye look on just about anything, so I’m excited to add these to my bathroom and give a few out as gifts too (maybe with a pretty soap dish!).

We’ve got lots of soap DIYs in our archives as well, so take a look and see which you want to make! Hope you’ll jump into soap making with this project if you haven’t already! xo. Laura

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Make tie dye soap at home!

Supplies

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• ▢ white melt-and-pour soap
• ▢ microwave safe container
• ▢ essential oil of your choice
• ▢ soap dye
• ▢ soap thermometer
• ▢ plastic soap mold
• ▢ popsicle sticks for stirring
• ▢ spray bottle with rubbing alcohol 

Instructions

• Cut your melt-and-pour soap with a sharp knife into 1/2″ cubes and place 2 cups of soap in a pourable microwave safe container. Heat for 30 seconds at a time, stirring at the end of each interval. Once the soap is completely smooth and melted, allow the soap to cool a bit until it reaches 145° (use the soap thermometer to track the temperature).
• Once the soap has cooled, add the desired amount of essential oil and stir until combined.
• Use the dye droppers to drop dots of dye onto your empty soap molds, spreading out the colors if using more than one. 
• Pour the soap into the molds. Stop pouring when the mold is halfway full and spray some alcohol on the soap to spread the color. Repeat with another spray of alcohol once the mold is full and use your popsicle stick to move the color around the mold.
• Keep swirling until you like the pattern you have, and then let your soap harden.  Once it’s set, pop the soap out of the mold, and you’re done!

© Author Laura Gummerman

Keywords soap