Melt and Pour Soap - Rich Orange Cinnamon Scent

Melt and pour soap with sweet orange and cinnamon oil adds a nice cozy feel to any room. Great for showers, weddings, hostesses, and helper gifts.

Who doesn't love the smell of oranges and cinnamon? They help give your home a nice cozy feel. That's why I decided to make a soap with this homey fragrance combination.

Since I'm using melt and pour soap, the process is simple. In fact, what you are really doing is taking the soap base, and dressing it up with fragrance, color, and other additives. A super fun creative project, that's easy enough for the kids to join in on.

It's much easier than making soap from scratch. That method is called cold process soap. It takes a lot of time and you need to use harsh chemicals such as lye to get a chemical reaction called saponification. However, melt and pour soap bases have already reached saponification so most of the work is already done.

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Supplies 

(for 1 pound of soap)
Melt & Pour Soap Base 
Sweet Orange Essential Oil
Cinnamon Essential Oil
Silicone Soap Mold
Orange Peel & Cinnamon Sticks (decoration)

Safety Note:  I use this soap as more of a decoration or sachet to set in a room.  Cinnamon essential oil can be a skin irritant. Especially with those who have sensitive skin. Just make sure that you use a very small amount of oil if you are going to use it to wash your hands or body.   

Aren't these orange peels fun? All you need to do is take a garnishing tool and peel the rind around the orange. They will curl up while drying, and you can let the oranges dry out too, to use in another project. Just make sure the orange has good airflow or it may start mold and rot.

Above is a photo of the soap base. You can see that this one is an opaque white soap. It's soft enough to cut with a knife and melt in the microwave. It's a vegetable base glycerin soap, however, you can also find honey soap or goat milk soap melt and pour bases.

How to Make Melt and Pour Soap

• Start by melting the base in a glass cup for 30 seconds in the microwave and stir.
• Repeat until melted. This batch took me about 4 times at 30 seconds or 2 minutes. However, everyone's microwave is different, so yours may take longer or less time.
• You can also create a double boiler, by placing this Pyrex glass in another pot of simmering water on the stove melting it that way.
• Once the soap is melted, let it cool for a minute or two before adding fragrance.

I used essential oils but you could use fragrance oils too. Here's a handy chart from my friend Jan Berry who makes amazing soaps, on how much to add: Essential Oil for Soap Making Chart

By the way, one pound of soap filled this mold with enough leftover to make a couple more bars.

Pour the melted soap into your mold.

Tip: If you see air bubbles after you pour the soap into the molds spray a little rubbing alcohol on the top and the bubbles should disappear.

Here, I tried to place some of the orange peels in the bottom of the mold first, however, they floated to the top. If you really want them to stay on the bottom, then I suggest you place your orange peel in the bottom and add just a little bit of soap to cover.

Wait for a while, maybe an hour, before adding any more soap. I didn't mind the look of the peels floating, so I let it go, and added some ground clove and cinnamon to the top.

Let the soap dry for 24 hours before removing the soap bars from the mold.

Decorating the Soap

Then you can have fun decorating them with pieces of cinnamon sticks and more of your dried orange peel. Tie some twine around them to look like beautiful little packages.

Make your own orange cinnamon soap and have fun creating these little fragrant beauties for your home, or as gifts for your family and friends.

Melt and Pour Soap - Rich Orange Cinnamon Scent

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Active Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes

Difficulty: easy

Estimated Cost: $10

Make soap with simple ingredients and a homey fragrance combination of oranges and cinnamon. They help give your home a nice cozy feel and are perfect for gift giving.

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Materials

• Gylcerin Melt & Pour Soap Base
• Sweet Orange Essential Oil
• Orange Peel
• Cinnamon Sticks

Tools

• Garnishing tool
• Silicone Soap Mold

Instructions

1. Cut up chunks of the soap base and place them in a glass cup.
2. Then melt it in the microwave in 30 second intervals.
3. Repeat until melted.
4. Once the soap is melted, let it cool for a minute or two before adding fragrance.
5. Place some of the orange peels in the bottom of the mold.
6. Add a little bit of melted soap base to cover the bottom of the mold.
7. Wait an hour before adding any more soap.
8. Add some ground clove and cinnamon to the top of the soap.
9. Let the soap dry for 24 hours before removing them from the mold.
10. Decorate with pieces of cinnamon sticks and more dried orange peel. 
11. Tie them with twine.

Notes

Tip: If you see air bubbles after you pour the soap into the molds spray a little rubbing alcohol on the top and the bubbles should disappear.

Recommended Products

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  NOW Essential Oils, Cinnamon Cassia Oil, Warming Aromatherapy Scent, Steam Distilled, 100% Pure, Vegan, Child Resistant Cap, 1-Ounce
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  NOW Essential Oils, Orange Oil, Uplifting Aromatherapy Scent, Cold Pressed, 100% Pure, Vegan, Child Resistant Cap, 4-Ounce

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