Iced Tea Soap Loaf Recipe

To Make Lemons:

In plastic beaker, mix 1 oz. of glycerin with 1/4 teaspoon of yellow dye powder. Mix well with mini-mixer or frother.

To another plastic beaker, add 2 oz. of Ultra White soap base. Heat soap in microwave until it has melted.

Add color mixture to melted soap until desired shade is reached. Stir well. Pour into bottom of loaf mold. Spritz with alcohol to dissolve surface bubbles. Allow to set up.

Once soap has set, carefully remove from mold. Cut into strips that are 5.5" long and 3/4" wide. These will be the rind and peel of the lemons slices.

Repeat above steps to make more strips. You will need enough for 6 lemons.

In plastic beaker, add 2 oz. of Extra Clear soap and melt in microwave.

Using the Round Guest Silicone Mold, pour just enough clear soap to cover the bottom of one cavity. Working quickly, take one lemon rind strip and spritz an edge of the strip with alcohol. Place the strip (alcohol-side down) into the melted clear soap, lining the circumference of the cavity with it. Spritz again with alcohol. Repeat this step with remaining 5 soap cavities.

Melt 9 oz. of clear soap. Add remaining liquid yellow color from Step 2 and blend well into soap.

Add 2.5 ml of Lemon Essential oil and mix. Spritz inside of each mold cavity and pour melted yellow soap into each. Spritz tops of each to release air bubbles. Allow to set.

Once lemons have set up, remove from molds. Cut each slice in half diagonally. Taking one half, stand on end (flat side down) and slice into thirds. Repeat with other half.

Continue until all lemons have been cut into 6 slices. You should have 36 lemon slices when finished.

To Make Ice Cubes:

To microwave-safe measuring cup, add 16 oz. of cut up clear soap. Add 0.5 oz. of white soap to measuring cup. Heat together in microwave until melted.

Add 0.5 oz. of Iced Tea Twist fragrance oil and mix well.

Pour into Large Loaf Silicone Mold and spritz top of soap with alcohol. Set aside to set up.

Once soap has completely hardened, carefully remove from mold. Cut soap up into small cubes - about .75" squares. Set "ice cubes" aside.

To microwave-safe measuring cup, add 30 oz. of cut up clear soap. Heat in microwave until melted.

In plastic beaker, mix 1 oz. glycerin with 1/4 teaspoon of brown pigment powder. Mix well with mini-mixer or frother.

To melted clear soap, add just enough brown color to look like iced tea. Add 1 oz. of Iced Tea Twist fragrance oil and mix well.

Into bottom of Loaf Mold, pour enough brown soap to cover bottom and spritz with alcohol.

Taking 1-2 handfuls of ice cubes, generously spritz with alcohol and place into mold, Add a few lemon slices, strategically placing into loaf so there will be a few lemons in each slice of soap.

Spritz with alcohol and pour more brown soap, adding ice cubes and lemon slices until entire loaf is filled. Be sure to spritz all soap embeds before adding.

Try to place some lemon slices sticking out of top of loaf. Spritz top again and let soap completely harden.

Carefully remove from mold. Using mitre box, if available, slice soap into 1 inch slices. Or, use soap cutter or dull knife to slice soap.

Wrap soap tightly with plastic wrap or other packaging of choice.

Label product accordingly.