Making Gingerbread Soap

Here’s a fun soap that integrates several different techniques! I started out making some cute little gingerbread soaps to use as embeds in this silicone mold:

Mini Gingerbread soaps

I added just a tiny bit of cocoa powder to make them the perfect gingerbread color. I wanted them to contrast from the rest of the soap, so I made some goat’s milk soap with gingerbread fragrance added to the entire pot. From there, I divided out a portion to color a darker brown with more cocoa powder, and left the rest natural. I poured the “natural” colored soap in the bottom of the mold, then added the darker brown layer over the top. I marked the mold so I would be able to space out the gingerbread men evenly into each bar of soap.

I had asked my soapmaking friends on Facebook for some creative ways I could make this soap more fun, and they had some great ideas! I decided to go with some white icing and a sprinkle of cinnamon powder on top. The beauty of having your masterbatch of soap oils is that you can decide at the last minute to make up a tiny batch of white soap to use for icing. I didn’t even wait for the lye solution to cool down – just dumped it in the oils as soon as it was mixed up, and used a bottle with a yorker cap to squirt the white icing over the top of the soap. Then I sprinkled the cinnamon on top (you can see where it came out a little too fast when I first got started!)

Gingerbread Soap in the mold

I was a little surprised at how dark and orange the bottom layer turned out! I’m sure it will turn more brown as it cures. Because they had to be hand-cut, the weight of these bars is going to vary.

Gingerbread Soap by Great Cakes Soapworks

Overall, I’m very happy with the design and how these turned out! They smell absolutely wonderful, and will be available at Greatcakessoapworks.com on Halloween.

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  1. Super cute, Amy! Aren’t embeds fun?! And I love the drizzle. I’ve been experimenting with master-batching myself lately and I don’t think I could go back to making single batches (except for special recipes) ever again! It’s so handy!

  2. ohh these are just adorable Amy, they should go really well for you for Christmas, Luv the colours! they look great together.

  3. Awesome!! I just picked up that mold over the weekend to make some sugar scrub gingermen and wondered if anyone had posted a tut. The batch turned out awesome, thanks so much for the great tut!!!

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