| Lately, I’ve been dreaming about watermelon and I’ve even found myself with a mouthful of pillow one morning. You can imagine my disappointment when I realized that it was NOT watermelon! Today, I’m going to show you how I made my recent batch of watermelon soap. I don’t know that it has cured my craving at all, but it is a fun soap!
Collect needed items:
Weigh your fragrance oil and set aside. Measure color and seeds and set aside as well. Add sodium hydroxide to the water. Mix well. Allow to cool to near 120 °F. Exact temperature is not critical. Allow the lye solution to cool as the oils are being melted. Measure oils on your scale. Warm on the stove or in the microwave. Bring temperature to near 120 °F. Once again, exact temperature is not critical. Combine oils and lye solution. Stir until thin trace. Upon trace add the fragrance oil, color and seeds. Stir well. Pour soap into molds. I used the Guerrilla Mold from Dirk’s post earlier this week. Allow to sit until soap is firm. Cut into bars. Stack to allow good air circulation. Allow to cure for several days before using. Longer curing will result in a harder bar. Notes: Don’t forget to submit your blog or video posts to win the MMS Perfumer’s Kit. Remember, this kit is worth $280! Submissions are due by March 1st for posts during February. Did you know that you can become a fan of Majestic Mountain Sage on Facebook? Receive the latest updates, blog post notifications and more! Don’t miss your chance to vote for future blog topics! The poll can be found on the right side of the screen between the Join In and Follow us on Twitter sections. Every vote counts! You can choose up to five answers if there are multiple topics you would like to see!
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 Watermelon soap. Yummy!  Weighed oils.  Mixing the lye solution.  Adding the lye solution to the melted oils.  Blending the lye solution and oils together.  Mixing to a light trace. |
 Adding the Kalahari Melon Fragrance Oil.  Adding the premixed color to the soap.  Measuring the Blueberry Seeds.  The soap is ready for the mold.  Filling the mold. |
 Measuring the premixed color.  Blending the color into the soap.  Starting to mix the Blueberry Seeds into the soap.  Prepared mold.  Filled mold. |
This is beautiful! I can smell it from here. Gotta make this one. Thanks.
WOW – that looks lovely. And just like Lynda, I can smell it too. Thanks!
The color is perfect! I think I *need* to make watermelon soap now. 🙂