After 5 years of conceptualizing jewelry, home decor and accessory tutorials on HonestlyWTF, I’m beyond thrilled to announce that I’m finally launching our first series of DIY kits with MakersKit. Today! Hooray!!! What took so long, you ask? I’m an absolute stickler when it comes to quality – which is why I search tirelessly to find you guys the right supplies so that you can create something that is beautiful, functional and long lasting. Crafty doesn’t equate with cheap in my book. So when the amazing masterminds behind MakersKit understood my biggest concern with packaging tutorials on a mass scale, I knew I found the right collaborators for this obvious, and exciting, next chapter!
After months of planning, testing, and sourcing, our year long collaboration with MakersKit launches today with this soap kit. That’s right, these beautiful gemstones and crystals are actually soaps! They are ridiculously fun to create and make for impressive gifts.
Each kit includes (makes a minimum of 2 soaps):
- 1/2lb each of vegetable based clear and opaque white soap bases
- red, yellow, green and blue food coloring
- 10 small, reusable mixing cups
- 2 soap molds
- toothpicks
You’ll need:
- a microwavable glass or measuring cup
- paring knife
- cutting board
- scissors
- fragrance oil (optional)
Start by cutting each of your soap bases in half. Reserve the clear and opaque halves for your 2nd gemstone soap – the kit will allow you to make a minimum of 2 soaps in 2 color ways. Cut the halves in half again. One quarter piece of the clear and opaque soap will be used mix colors. The other quarters pieces will be reserved for the final mold.
Cut the clear soap into small chunks and place into a microwavable glass. Microwave for 40-60 seconds until completely melted. If you want to add fragrance, this is when you’d add your oil. A little goes a long way so don’t overdo it! Divide the melted soap evenly into 5 small mixing cups.
I’ll be making purple here which means I’ll need to mix blue and red. Start with the darkest shades first. One drop of each color should really be as dark as you’ll need to go. Slowly reduce the amount of food coloring after each subsequent mixing cup. Use the toothpick to extract the smallest amount of color from the bottle. Again, a little goes a long way! Mix each color thoroughly with a toothpick. If the soap starts to set, then pop them mini cups into the microwave for 4-5 seconds and mix again.
Color combination tips:
- red + blue = purple
- red + yellow = orange
- blue + green = cyan
- green + yellow + red = brown
Repeat the same step with the quarter pound of opaque soap base. Allow to set for at least an hour or so. Once they’ve cooled and hardened, turn them over, use your thumbs to push the bottom and they should pop out easily. Save the mini mixing cups as you’ll be able to reuse them over and over again.
Slice the colors into thin slices and small shards. Mix the colors randomly and drop them into the soap mold. The looser and more random, the better. I like to place the darker colors on the bottom and lighter colors on top but again, don’t try to get it too uniform!
Melt the quarter piece of clear soap and pour into the soap mold. Then melt the quarter piece of opaque soap and pour into the soap mold.
At this point, you can even pop the entire cup into the microwave for 5 seconds – just so the colors melt together more naturally. Or you can leave it as it is. The cup might warp from the hot soap – it’s okay. Just keep an eye on it if you do decide to put it in the microwave – you don’t want to melt a hole in your mold! Allow to set for a couple of hours – you can even pop it in the refrigerator if you, like me, don’t have the patience to wait. Once the soap has totally cooled and hardened, carefully cut the mold open with a pair of scissors.
Place the wider end on a cutting board and use a paring knife to cut 5-6 vertical edges at a slight angle. Then cut the top into a point at 5-6 more exaggerated angles.
And voila, that’s it!
A few more tips:
- Save all of your scraps. You can cut them up and reuse them to make more soap!
- If you want to give them as gifts, wrap them in tissue paper or cellophane.
- You can make 2 soaps per mold if you cut the molds in half vertically – you’ll just end up with narrower gemstones
- And most importantly, have fun!
This gemstone soap kit is just one out of 4 kits to be launched every few months in 2016. Head over here if you’re interested in subscribing for an entire year of HonestlyWTF DIY kits! I should mention that a 1 year, pre-paid subscription saves you $, plus a $10 MakersKit gift card. I promise you’ll love the rest of the kits to come!
We’re also giving away a year long subscription for those of you who wanna test your luck. Head over here to enter!
(images by HonestlyWTF)
They are amazing. Honestly, they are too beautiful to even use!
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I’m dying a little inside! Love these sooooooo much! Thank you for sharing!
Love, Yas
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You are so talented. I’m so excited for this!!
I LOVE this!! So pretty!
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Really unique and beautiful soap that look like precious jewels! They will make amazing gifts for sure!
Prudence
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Those soaps area absolutely beautiful and a huge congrats on the collaboration, how awesome!
xo
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SO in love with these!!! <3
This method looks SO much easier compared to soap making when starting from scratch.
Thanks for sharing, and great collaboration!
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Wow, these look beautiful! At first glance, you’d never think they were soaps…Would love to try this!
Christina ♥ https://caliope.name
Thank you so much for sharing, I LOVE this DIY, so beautiful! I really wanna try it!
xo, Esther
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Oh wow this is so exciting! These soaps look incredible – almost too good to use?? 🙂
Hannah x
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Wow! I am in Love, perfect gift idea
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Very cute 🙂 I honestly didn’t think they were soaps at first!
OMG! This is the most beautiful soap i have ever seen…Really! Thank you for sharing the steps, I am now intrigued to try my own 🙂
Eugenia
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Hey, I love everything you ever post, but wont these soap dye?, I mean, food colorings tend to dye your hands when you use them and it’s not that simple to take them out. I know this is soap, but still I wonder…
@Germanita good question! They won’t dye your skin or your soap dish, shower or bathtub (as long as it’s not non-porous). So little dye is used in each bar of soap that it’s not nearly as concentrated as dye straight out of the bottle. Just think of it like colored frosting!!
So in love with this DIY!
x
I love this DIY! These soap gems are so cute!
Love this idea!
Hi, stupid question… I tried this at home, as I had the materials… But, how do you manage for the food colouring to not dye your hands? The color, even when the soap is created, dyes everything!!!
Thanksss
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These are so cool!! Thank you for sharing your genius with us!
Wow that’s amazing! So pretty. I want these for my home and they would make really cute gifts. 🙂
Sally x
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Wao!!!! great work like the previous ones….We are in natural gemstone and understand the value of gemstones. These are so cool stuff. Thanks for sharing such a beautiful creation with us
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These are stunning! Any way you could make this kit into a DIY candle-making kit? I LOVE the look of the stone colors but I would love to keep them as a candle. Any thoughts?
-Kate
@Kate YES! You can definitely do this with candles. I would just mimic the same process with wax. Except you’ll want to insert a wick into the middle of your cup with the mixed pieces of wax. Hold the end of the wick out of the cup while you pour your clear and opaque white wax into the cup – and make sure it stays out while the wax sets. Then you can peel open the cup after it’s fully set and carve it into a gemstone. FUN!
Brightest Blessings!
I just received my DIY Honestly WTF (Way Too Fun) Soap Stone Kit and really excited to try … can I add essential oils for scenting these baubles? If so, at what step? And THANK YOU for the cute airplant! 😉 courtland
NVM … LOLOL…saw my answer …however, do I have to use Perfume oils or can I use essential? Thanks so much again!! courtland. <3
Doesn’t the food colouring dye your skin???
Depends on the die
Can you use any type of soap or only the vegetable soap? Will it still work?
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I love, love, LOVE this idea! These soaps are so pretty and so easy to make!
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How do I order a kit? It’s not working for me
Where can I find the soap base? Can someone send me a link to it on Amazon possibly?
if you don’t have food coloring, what else do you suggest using?
Hi there I was wondering do you think that this could also work with wax?
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Just came across these on Pinterest and they look so fun and beautiful. I can’t wait to give them a try. Thanks for the creations!
I can’t find the website that takes me to the gemstone kit.
It says the website can not be reached.
Please help!
ok get wifi
If you have wifi then you can
Really random question…I love these and have never made my own soap. This looks beautiful and super simple. Stoopid question but how does the food dye go when you wash with the soap? Does it form colourful pretty suds which wash down the plug hole no problem? I worry it might colour the shower water really well and splash everywhere…but I’ve no experience at all so I’d love to hear what you guys thing 🙂
how simple and is it easy never made soap and its for a fair of kids and my kids want to do it, some help people.
Very nice! Love this recipe!
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I love it!
so good
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