The first step in creating the soap roses is to color the soap a nice rosy color! In the soap bar pictured we used
Matte Americana Red Liquid Pigment in
Premium Goat Milk MP Soap Base. Once the melted soap is our desired shade, we poured it into a
Rectangle Soap Cup.
Once the soap hardened, we unmold it and began with the vegetable peeler. We held the pink soap bar in our left hand and used our right hand to carefully peel a layer of soap off the bar. The soap will naturally curl as the vegetable layer runs along the top of the soap bar. These are the rose buds!
Next, we continued in a similar manner with green soap to create the leaves. We used
Matte Green Liquid Pigment with
Premium Goat Milk MP Soap Base for the leaves. We peeled the green soap to create green soap curls then pinched one end of each soap curl to create an oblong shape that serves as our leaves.
Once the rose buds and leaves were made, we created a color coordinating loaf and embedded the roses and leaves on top.
For detailed instructions on how to create this soap view the
Bed of Roses Loaf MP Soap Recipe.
If you are ready to make it, purchase our
Bed of Roses Loaf MP Soap Kit.