Hi guys! Today we will prepare together a homemade Christmas soap gift, in particular a cute Snowman made entirely of soap. It’s perfect if you’re looking for a handmade Christmas gift idea that’s original and doesn’t take much time and money. To make it you only need two ingredients and a lot of fun to create it.
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Gabi
Homemade Christmas Soap Gift
After creating the Christmas soaps last week (click here if you missed them), I thought I’d raise the bar a bit and make something much more special and certainly unique. I thought that making a snowman “in 3D” was an original homemade Christmas soap gift but also challenging to do it! Clearly without using snowman molds!
What you will need
Procedure
To prepare it, I used the technique of melt and pour because it is easier when you want to make particular shapes.
In this case, instead of pouring the dissolved soap into a mould, I mixed it vigorously until it took on a soft and fluffy consistency. In this way, the soap can be shaped at will, making it take the desired shape.
1. How to make the soap snowman
Let’s start by melting some pieces of soap in the microwave or in a bain-marie. Once liquid, pour the soap into the two hemispheres that are normally used to make bath bombs (1). After a few minutes in the freezer, remove the solidified soap from the molds and combine them with other melted soap still hot (2). Press the two hemispheres together and the ball is ready. Not having a smaller bath bomb mold, I created the second snowball by melting some more soap and stirring it until its consistency was soft and fluffy. At this point I made the ball of soap, rotating it several times between my hands as if it were a meatball 🙂 (3).
I joined the two spheres using a toothpick and placing more hot melted soap between them (4).
2. How to decorate the soap snowman
To decorate our snowman we’ll have to create a colorful scarf, hat and nose/carrot! To do this, I dissolved some soap with some dye and mixed it vigorously until it became fluffy. For the scarf, I used blue, yellow for the nose/carrot and red for the hat.
3. How to assemble the soap snowman
Now make eyes and mouth with brown soap (mix yellow-blue and red) and, if you want, you can also decorate the hat as I did using simple white soap. What is missing is to make it stable. To do this, I thought to create a base with white soap exactly as done before (melt and mix) and use it to cover an old jar lid (7). This will give stability to the whole structure (8). With the base now ready, put our snowman using another toothpick and our soap snowman is ready (9).
Video Tutorial | Homemade Christmas Soap Gift
Watch the tutorial video so you don’t miss any details about how to create a snowman soap as a homemade Christmas gift.
Considerations
Creating this snowman was really fun for me!
If you are looking for other Christmas ideas, you may be interested in my last post on how to make an easy Christmas soap bar.
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I really love this snow man soap. It is a perfect budget friendly gift idea
These are so adorable! And such a unique, great idea. I’m so impressed and I think such a lovely homemade present. I didn’t realize soap was something you could make at home! Thanks for sharing.
I’ve been wanting to try something like this for a while! So so adorable and the perfect holiday gift 😊
What a cute idea! Love it x
The finished product is SO adorable! This would be a perfect addition to any Christmas gift – I’m going to have to give it a try
This is great! 🙂 It’s super easy 🙂
Oh, my goshhhhh this is adorable!
Thank you!!! 🙂 I’m really happy to read it!
This looks fun and so easy to make. Thank you for sharing, I might just try it out.
That snowman is adorable. Not sure I could use it after making it because it’s so cute. LOL 😊
This soap snowman is perfect for the winter time. It’s almost too cute to actually use, but it’s so festive and fun
ahahah! 🙂
Really creative. Will be sharing with my niece.
This is so freakin adorable! I don’t think I would be able to use it or give it to someone after making it though… way too cute!
thanks!
These are.too adorable! Love a quick and easy gift that people will get use out of!
How cute! I have to make one of this with my 2 year old son! He will love it!
Great! It’s easy to realise! You can also make it with your kids! they will enjoy doing it
I so adore your soap making projects. This one of the snowman is so adorable and would make a cute stocking stuffer for Christmas!
Cute idea to do with kids when the weather is terrible!