| Before you start mixing your melt and pour | | | | using old toys of your kids' favorite cartoon |
| homemade soap, be sure that you have your | | | | characters. |
| soap molds on hand. Of course, you would not | | | | 6. Margarine tubs can also be used as molds and |
| want to spend a lot on buying silicon soap molds | | | | would make larger soaps for use when taking |
| and the like. Here is a list of soap making molds | | | | long baths. |
| which you can use and which you can find around | | | | 7. Old cookie cutters can also be used as soap |
| the house for free: | | | | molds as long as you line them up in a tray or a |
| 1. Plastic ice cube trays that are flexible can be | | | | cookie sheet so that the melted soap will be able |
| found discarded around the house. There are also | | | | to settle. |
| some ice cube trays that come in various shapes | | | | 8. Popsicle molds or ice drop molds can be |
| like bear, star, diamond, etc. | | | | bought at the plastics section of the supermarket |
| 2. Soda bottles, 16 oz or 20 oz, can be used by | | | | or grocery. You can even put in some sticks so |
| cutting off the bottom part which looks like a | | | | that it will easy to pull out the soaps once it has |
| flower when inverted. You can also cut to the | | | | hardened. |
| desired thickness of the soaps you are going to | | | | 9. Empty and washed ice cream cups can also |
| make. | | | | be used as molds and the soaps will actually have |
| 3. Microwaveable muffin pans can also be used | | | | those fluted sides as its design. |
| as soap molds and you can make them look like | | | | 10. Small wooden boxes would be nice to use as |
| muffins by putting them in muffin paper cups.. | | | | molds because the grain of the wood will be |
| 4. The inexpensive plastic candy molds come in | | | | etched on the soap. |
| a variety of shapes and sizes and can be used | | | | Basically any kind of container that can hold liquid |
| over and over again. You can even make soaps | | | | can be used as soap making molds but the best |
| of different colors or combined colors. | | | | ones are those made of plastic, wood, stainless or |
| 5. Stainless baking pans can be used to make | | | | silicone. Still you can use your ingenuity and find |
| extra large molds of soap. Before the soap | | | | materials you can use as molds or combine |
| settles or hardens you can press on the top layer | | | | molded soap to make beautiful designs. |