How to make flowers from soap with your own hands?

Now there is a huge variety of body care gift sets, so you can easily choose a quality shampoo, shower gel or soap, and most of these sets are luxuriously packaged. However, I really want to please a loved one with some special gift, created with soul and love with my own hands. Handmade soap will be an excellent option for a birthday or March 8 for the fair sex. Soap made in the form of flowers, for example, pretty roses or delicate lilies, looks especially beautiful.

Soap making is a special kind of art that has been known since ancient times. The soap flower possesses a special sophistication: its fragility and refinement of details are breathtaking. Each petal testifies to the delicate and painstaking work that has been meticulously done by the perfumers.

To create a chic scent, you can add a small amount of your favorite scent: essential oils or vanilla - at the request of the soap maker. Some recipes allow the use of herbs, honey, coffee, and other ingredients.

Handmade soap compositions can replace the usual flower bouquets. After all, fresh flowers fade quickly, while an attractive bouquet of soap is able to give a fragrant aroma for a long time. To preserve the fragrance, the soap flower can be stored in a small silk bag. The soap bouquet can be used not only for washing and cleansing the skin, but also as a decor item in the bathroom.

Subtle curves of the stems, a bright palette of colors, the boundless beauty of each petal and a stunning aroma are the main advantages of soap bouquets, which rightfully make them beautiful and unique gifts for the most beloved people.

There are many different soap making master classes. Often to create a small rose made of foamed soap the following components are used:

• 100 grams of soap base;
• 1 tablespoon of glycerin;
• flavors;
• dyes.

The soap base is cut into several parts and placed in a microwave oven or melted on an oven in a heat-resistant dish. In this case, it is important not to overheat the mass so that it does not start to boil.

• Glycerin is added to the mixture, which makes the mass for modeling flowers more plastic. Soaps can be matte by adding a small amount of titanium dioxide powder to glycerin, which is often used in cosmetics, creams and cooking.
• The next step is to add cosmetic dye. Only 5 drops are needed per 100 grams of mass. At this stage, you can still add 5 to 10 drops of fragrance.
• After the base is prepared, it is the turn of the flower sculpting. To do this, pour the prepared mass onto a flat surface. Using a small glass, cut out circles, as when making homemade dumplings.
• Then circles are wrapped on skewers or small sticks so that you get a rose petal. The second circle is superimposed on top of the first. The same is done with all the petals. After shaping the bud, the skewer must be carefully removed. For a better fastening effect, the bottom of the flower can be smeared with a melted base.
• Once the rose is fully formed, each petal can be touched up with wet hands. Such a flower will turn out to be very beautiful and smooth.
• The soap rose can be placed on a stand made from scrap materials. Best of all, such a flower will look in a basket, which can be made from ordinary foil or cardboard. You can make a beautiful box, for example, from colorful cards with the corresponding colors.

A composition of buds can become an original gift to relatives and friends, which will be remembered for a long time. To create stunning flower arrangements, you will need work, perseverance and the stupid imagination of a soap-maker.

Watch a video tutorial on how to create flowers from soap below.