Secret Message Soap: A bribery idea. Trying to get your kids to wash their hands more? In this project we put a dollar bill in a lip balm container then embedded it in a bar of soap. Once the soap is all used up you get the dollar that has been safely stashed in the lip balm pot. This is also a fun idea for putting secret messages into soap.

Supplies:

Clear Melt and Pour soap base [see pt.1 for more info], Soap Mold, Microwave safe container, Saran Wrap [plastic cling wrap], Spritzer bottle filled w/ rubbing alcohol, Colorant, Fragrance oil, Lip Butter Pot, Note or money to put into lip pot

1. Cut melt and pour soap into 1” cubes and put into microwave safe container (about 5oz should be enough for one bar). Cover with saran wrap and microwave for 30 second intervals until soap is melted. Stir in the fragrance oil
2. Pour the clear soap into your mold until the cavity is about 1/3 of the way full and spritz the soap with alcohol to get rid of any floating bubbles
3. Get your closed lip pot container w/ the note or money folded up inside and spray it on all sides with the alcohol and set it down into the melted soap base and give the whole bar one more spray
4. Let the soap sit for a few minutes until there is a skin on top that is semi-stiff when touched. Then take the rest of the melt and pour soap (pop back in the microwave if needed) and add your color, stir until color is mixed through. Then spritz the top of bar of soap with your alcohol.
5. Make sure that your colored melt and pour is not too hot (it is not steaming and you can comfortably press and hold your hand against the bottom of the container) then pour the colored melt and pour over the bar of soap, filling the mold up the rest of the way and give the bar one final spray to pop any bubbles
6. Let your bar sit and harden for a few hours before removing (the longer you wait the easier it will be to remove from the mold)

Voila! You have a nice bar of soap with a fun hidden surprise inside!

About the maker: Anne-Marie Faiola is the owner and founder of Bramble Berry Inc, Otion - The Soap Bar and TeachSoap, an instructional site dedicated to furthering the art and science of soapmaking. Anne-Marie’s recipes and projects have been published in numerous magazines and she has been a featured guest on DIY’s CraftLab, Maximimum Living on FOX and appeared on Home Shopping Network.

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