Today, giving gifts is a pleasure; you can come up with so many interesting and beautiful things that your eyes and desires run wild. We would like to draw your attention to this type of gift, a soap bouquet. Who could have ever imagined that banal soap can be used to create incredible beauty that is captivating and very impressive. The most important thing here is that anyone can make such a bouquet, because there is nothing complicated in the manufacturing technology. We will introduce you to several master classes so that on the eve of March 8 and not only you can make beautiful gifts to your dear and loved ones. Who knows, maybe you will be so fascinated by this process that you will want to build your own scented business.
Soap bouquets photos
Real craftswomen can make such beautiful bouquets from soap and special shapes that at first you can’t tell that this is not a real bouquet of fresh flowers, but that it’s all fashioned from soap and some other ingredients, which, by the way, are quite likely to be found in every home .
Ready-made soap flower buds can be placed in a basket or simply packed in floral paper. If you want to give something else besides soap, then you can arrange a bouquet in a cup, and the cup will also be a gift.
It is very popular today to pack everything in gift boxes. Soap flowers are no exception. Such a cute bouquet, as shown in the photo below, can stun your chosen one or beloved mother.
Homemade gift
You can make flower-shaped soap yourself. To do this you will need to prepare:
- soap base;
- dyes (sold in the same place as everything for soap making);
- silicone molds in the shape of flowers;
- tubes with fastening for balloons;
- alcohol.
Melt the soap base in a water bath and remove from the stove. When it cools down a little, add the dye of the required color. Then take a silicone mold and fill the mixture to the top.
When a thick crust forms on the surface, lightly scratch and sprinkle with alcohol. Then fill it with the remaining soap base and attach the balloon mounts. We are waiting for complete hardening.
There is no need to worry that the fastening will interfere with the use of soap. It will come off the flower quite easily.
Wrap the finished flowers in cling film to prevent drying and cracking.
You can make leaves from soap base or buy ready-made ones.
We combine the flowers into a bouquet and wrap the stems with tape.
We wrap the finished bouquet in wrapping or corrugated paper.
If we don’t want monochromatic flowers, then we need to first pour the soap base of one color into the mold, then, after waiting a little, carefully add another.
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Bouquet of soap roses in a box, photo
Why do many people today prefer soap bouquets when choosing gifts?
There are several main reasons here:
- A soap bouquet will never fade or lose its beauty (of course, until the person who uses such soap uses everything). But most of the recipients of such a gift simply use the soap bouquet as decoration for the bathroom or bedroom. After all, soap also smells great, creating a unique aroma in the rooms where it is located.
- When you get tired of the soap decor in your home and want to replace it with something, you won’t have to get rid of it, you can simply use it for its intended purpose.
- Soap can be given as a gift for any occasion, and you won’t have to spend much on finances, since soap has an affordable price.
If you decide to give such a beautiful box with soap flowers, then keep in mind that along with the soap, you can place another surprise gift at the bottom of the box. You can also think carefully about the composition so that between the soap flowers there are also fresh flowers, as well as various sweets and candies.
How to make a soap bouquet, step by step with photos
Now, using specific examples, let's figure out how to make these chic soap bouquets. Let's start with a not-so-complicated option, which we will conventionally call “Flower Meadow”:
- First you need to make the largest and most beautiful flower in this composition - the poppy. How to make it: melt the clear soap base in the microwave, then add the sea buckthorn soap base to it and mix everything well. Divide the resulting workpiece into 3 parts, paint each in the required color - red for the petals, black for the core and green for the leaves. Pour the soap blank into a special “Poppy” mold. The soap will harden very quickly.
- Next we make violets and pansies - charming flowers that can often be found in our meadows. They are also very easy to make - a soap blank with glycerin is poured onto a flat surface, after hardening, you can cut out the blanks for the petals according to the shape you need:
- To make the flower look more realistic and beautiful, use a serrated knife to make a pattern on the soap, as if scratching each petal with this knife:
- You can add yellow to purple flowers, and purple to yellow ones, as shown in the photographs below:
- This is roughly what your basic preparation for the future bouquet will look like. The only thing missing is a green tint, which we will add by making a lawn out of green soap. It's very simple - take some beautiful cakeware and fill it with soap. To make weed, you can simply cut up the green soap base beautifully:
You can dilute this composition with other colors that you like. The main thing is that everything looks harmonious and bright; this is a bouquet that should make a real splash on its recipient.
Soap rose
To make a bouquet we will need individual flowers. You will learn how to make them in our master class. First you need to prepare a liquid base by mixing grated soap with water. The mash needs to be melted over the fire until a homogeneous mass is formed, but it should not be brought to a boil.
After adding the dye of the chosen shade, start creating delicate roses. What to do:
- pour the colored soap solution onto the prepared sheet so that the base forms a thin layer;
- after a couple of minutes the layer will harden a little, then squeeze out mugs on it with a glass of the required diameter and cut them in half;
- Form petals from plastic semicircles, collecting them into roses, and press tightly at the base so that the flower does not fall apart.
Produce the leaves according to a similar scenario, adding green dye. Draw veins on the leaves with a toothpick, lightly pressing on the thickened base. Having collected the leaves into a rosette, place a rose bud in the center and secure it to a skewer. Now you can start creating a floral composition.
How to make bouquets of soap roses, master class with photos
Roses are flowers that are impossible not to love; they seem to be created to make women’s hearts melt and souls to rejoice with tenderness, aroma and beauty. Imagine that you can make roses from soap that will look quite natural.
Before we get into how to create an entire soap flower arrangement, we'll tell you how to make the flower itself:
- Take any soap base and put it in the microwave to melt (to make this quick and even, cut the soap base into small, identical pieces). Do not allow this base to boil under any circumstances:
- Separately, we prepare titanium dioxide based on glycerin. It is used in cooking, when producing, for example, mastic. This substance is also necessary for soap:
- Next, add literally 5 drops of dye for color and the same amount of flavoring to the workpiece. If you want the smell to be very intense, then drip as much as you see fit:
- The resulting liquid should be poured onto some flat surface, for example, onto a baking sheet. The mass will harden almost immediately, so you can make circles using a simple glass, which are blanks for the rose:
- Next, take a wooden skewer and glue the petals onto it, pressing each soap blank from below. Form all the curves with your hands to make the flower as natural as possible:
- Next we make the stems for the roses, they are also made from soap. To do this, you need to insert each skewer into a regular cocktail tube and fill the entire empty space with soap base. After it hardens, the tube must be carefully cut with a stationery knife:
As a result, when you prepare all the necessary elements to make roses, you will end up with these beautiful blanks for a soap bouquet:
Knowing how to make such charming roses, you can create a beautiful bouquet.
We suggest you make a bouquet of tea roses, they look very beautiful and are not difficult to make:
- First, make roses; they are made using special molds. To keep the roses well, at the stage when the soap hardens, insert bamboo sticks into the buds:
- You should end up with 3 beautiful roses like these (you can make not tea roses, but regular ones, using the technology you described above):
- Prepare everything you need to make a bouquet. We will need a small basket, foam plastic into which you can insert roses, artificial greenery and twigs with buds, scissors and tape:
- You need to attach artificial greens to the skewers. This is done using tape. As soon as you do this, you will see that your roses have played completely differently, they look as if they were real:
- We insert the foam into the basket so that it fits tightly into it. It is also very important that it is not visible from the basket, otherwise the whole look of the bouquet will simply be ruined:
- We place our roses in the basket so that they look harmonious. You can place them at different levels or do it as shown in our photos below:
- Add branches to the bouquet. To keep them securely in it, tape each branch to a small wooden skewer using tape:
Making roses from soap (step-by-step master class)
How to make roses from soap step by step master class
Making flowers from soap is very easy and enjoyable. At first glance, it seems that soap is a non-plastic material and will never be molded or broken. This is only partly true. There is a little trick that will help you make the soap plastic and pliable, like plasticine. It is enough to add one easily accessible ingredient, and the sculpting process will bring you a lot of pleasure. Plus, it's so easy and fun that you can get your kids involved in the process! I have already shown homemade soap flowers earlier. Today I will tell you in more detail how to make them with your own hands!
So, to make soap flowers you will need:
- soap base or grated baby soap - 200 g.
- food gelatin - 1 tablespoon
- water 7-8 tbsp. spoons
- food colors, cosmetic oils, flavorings - optional
- paring knife, smooth knife
And now step by step:
Pour 1 tbsp. spoon of gelatin with cold water and leave to swell for 40-50 minutes. I like to use 8-9 tablespoons of water, then the soap is softer.
Melt your soap base or grated baby soap in the microwave (in fractional intervals of 30 seconds-10 seconds-5 seconds) or in a water bath (add 1 teaspoon of water to the soap) until smooth. Add cosmetic oils, your favorite fragrances and fragrances.
Add the swollen gelatin to the melted base and stir! Pour the soap into the molds. Also suitable are improvised materials - caps from hairspray or deodorants. Try to use mostly round shapes. And necessarily deformable, i.e. silicone or plastic. It is almost impossible to remove soap from a glass or metal mold undamaged. Place the soap in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes, or just wait until it hardens.
So we got our soap cylinders. They are still warm and a little damp. Today I will show you how to make roses from gelatin and soap. Take a paring knife and start removing thin round layers of soap. These are the petals of our future rose.
Take one petal and twist it slightly diagonally - we have a core!
Wrap the next petal around the core. To make the rose look like it's in full bloom, turn the edges of the next petal slightly outward.
Continue wrapping until the flower is as full as desired.
If the rose cone is too large, and you want to melt the flower into a bar of soap, or attach a stem to it, cut off the tip with a knife.
You can easily make leaves in the same way: remove a thin layer of soap from the mold
Cut out a leaf using a node or pastry cutter. draw veins with a toothpick.
Here we have such a cute rose
