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How to Make Melt and Pour Soap Old Glory

This soap looks great! It isn't hard to make, but there are quite a few steps involved if you want it to achieve this look.

What you'll need:
American Flag Mold
about 5 oz Clear Melt & Pour Soap base
about 1 lb White Melt & Pour Soap base
Sienna Sparkles Colorant
Blue Sparkles Colorant
Pearl White Sparkles Colorant
Liquid Glycerin
True Red Liquid Colorant
5 drops Sapphire Blue Liquid Colorant
witch hazel
Pipettes
1 oz bottle of Soapmaking Fragrance

Begin by melting about 1 oz of clear soap. While it is melting, mix 3 scoops of the pearl white sparkles with 2 tsp of water. Add the water and sparkles to the soap and stir well. Pour a very thin layer of this soap into the section of the mold that has the stars.

Next, melt about 2 oz of clear soap. While it is melting, pour 1 tsp of liquid glycerin into a small container and mix with 2 scoops of sienna sparkles. After the soap has melted, stir the true red color and the sparkles into the soap and mix well. Using a pipette, fill the grooves or stripes in the mold with the soap. If the soap in your container sets up before you finish, just add a tiny smidge of water and re-melt.

By this time, the white soap should be set. Carefully take a little scraper or your fingernail and scrape away all the white soap that is on top of the stars. So your trying to scrape away the excess, while leaving the stars intact. After this, scrape away any of the red soap that may have spilled over. Melt about 1 oz of clear soap. While it is melting, spritz the stripes and the stars really well with witch hazel. Pour a very thin layer of the clear over the stripes and stars. Make sure your soap isn’t too hot or you’ll melt them.

Now for the blue part of the flag…..
Melt 1oz of clear soap. While it is melting, pour 1 tsp of liquid glycerin into a small container and mix with 2 scoops of blue sparkles. When the soap is melted, add the blue sparkles and sapphire color to it and stir well. Spritz the star section well with witch hazel and then fill in that section with the blue.

Melt another tiny amount of clear. Spritz the blue part with witch hazel and then pour the small amount of clear over that.

Now for the final step….
Melt the opaque soap. After it is melted, stir in 1/2 oz of fragrance. Spritz the already poured soap with witch hazel. When your opaque soap has cooled down enough not to melt the layer it is going on to, fill in the rest of the mold.

Note…
The reason why I pour clear layers in between is so that if my colors bleed at all, they bleed into the clear layer and not into each other.
Also, another way of doing this is to pour the stripes in clear and then paint them red after it comes out of the mold.