How to make flowers from soap with your own hands?

Now there is a huge variety of gift sets for body care, so you can easily choose a quality shampoo, shower gel or soap, in addition, most of these sets have luxurious packaging. However, one wants to please a loved one with some special gift created with soul and love with one's own hands. Handmade soap will be a great 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 art form known since ancient times. The soap flower has a special sophistication: its fragility and sophistication of details are breathtaking. Each petal indicates a delicate and painstaking work that was carefully done by perfumers.

To create a chic aroma, you can add a small amount of your favorite smell: essential oils or vanilla - at the request of the soap maker. In some recipes, the use of herbs, honey, coffee and other ingredients is permissible.

Handmade soap compositions can replace familiar floral bouquets. Indeed, fresh flowers quickly fade, while an attractive bouquet of soap is able to give a fragrant aroma for a long time. To preserve the aroma, the soap flower can be stored in a small silk bag. A soapy bouquet can be used not only for washing and cleansing the skin, but also as a decoration in the bathroom.

Thin bends of stems, a bright palette of colors, the limitless beauty of each petal and amazing aroma are the main advantages of soap bouquets, which rightly make them beautiful and unique gifts for the most beloved people.

There are many different soap making workshops. Often to create a small rose from foam soap The following components are used:

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

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

• Glycerin is added to the mixture. which makes the mass for sculpting flowers more ductile. The soap can be matted by adding a small amount of titanium dioxide powder to glycerin, which is often used in the creation of cosmetic products, in the manufacture of creams and in cooking.
• The next step is to add cosmetic dye. For 100 grams of mass, you need only 5 drops. At this stage, you can still add flavoring in the amount of 5 to 10 drops.
• After the base is prepared, it is the turn of modeling flowers. To do this, cooked mass is poured onto a flat surface. Using a small glass, circles are cut out, as in the preparation of home-made dumplings.
• Then wrap circles on skewers or small sticks so that you get a rose petal. The second circle is superimposed on top of the first. Similarly done with all the petals. After shaping the bud, the skewer must be carefully removed. For a better mounting effect, the bottom of the flower can be greased with a molten base.
• After the rose is fully formed, each petal can be adjusted with wet hands. Such a flower will turn out to be very beautiful and smooth.
• Soap rose can be installed on a stand, which is made from improvised materials. Best of all, such a flower will look in a basket that can be made from ordinary foil or cardboard. You can make a beautiful box, for example, from colorful cards with the image of the corresponding flowers.

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

Below, watch a video tutorial on creating flowers from soap.