With Mother’s Day on the horizon, it’s time to create some glamour and elegance with these gorgeous rose gold heart mosaic soap bars.
Any mother is sure to love them and the good news is it’s one of our easiest and simplest mosaic soap projects to date.
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Table of Contents
My Inspiration for Rose Gold Mosaic Soap Bars
What You Need to Make Rose Gold Mosaic Heart Soap Bars
Rose Gold Mosaic Heart Soap Bars Video Tutorial
Rose Gold Mosaic Heart Soap Bars Instructions and Printable Tutorial
My Inspiration for Rose Gold Mosaic Soap Bars
Well we’re only three months into this year but I am loving our mosaic soap challenge projects.
Each project showcases a different mosaic soap technique and this month’s technique is cookie cutter mosaic soap.
This technique is so quick and simple, I’m referring to it as the mosaic soap ‘cheat’s version’.
Basically it involves using a cookie cutter to cut a shape from a slab of mosaic soap tiles and then embedding the mosaic soap shape into a larger soap bar.
Then you just pour some more liquid soap base over and around the embed to ‘grout’ it in and you’re done!
For this project, I have paired a heart-shaped cookie cutter with gorgeous rose gold coloured mica, but you can choose whatever shape cookie cutter or coloured mica you want – imagine the possibilities!!
Let’s get started!
What You Need to Make Rose Gold Mosaic Heart Melt and Pour Soap Bars
Melt and Pour Soap Base
Melt and pour soap is sold as large blocks that you can cut up and then weigh out the amount of soap you need.
I used white melt and pour soap base and clear melt and pour soap base to make my rose gold heart mosaic soap bars. Each of my bars weighs approximately 70g (~2.5oz).
The mosaic soap tiles were poured from clear melt and pour soap base, displaying the beautiful shimmer of the rose gold mica.
The base soap bars were made from a combination of clear and white soap base (at a ratio of 80% clear and 20% white), as I wanted my base bars to also have shimmer, but be paler and more opaque than the mosaic tiles.
Soap Moulds
To make mosaic melt and pour soap bars you need two moulds, one for the tiles and one for the remaining bar (base bar) of soap.
This mosaic tile mould makes six different patterns of mosaic tiles. For this project, I used the two abstract mosaic shape sections and the square tiles section.
Live outside of the United States? You can also buy this mosaic tile mould from AliExpress.
I used three geometric-shaped soap moulds for my base bars – circular, square and hexagonal.
I did this to demonstrate how this technique looks with various shaped base bars.
A Cookie Cutter
You can use any shape cookie cutter for this project, but it needs to fit inside the cavity of your base soap mould.
I suggest using nested cookie cutters as then you will have a number of different sized shapes to choose from – one of them is bound to fit!
Plastic or Rubber Scraper
You will find filling the mosaic tile silicone mould much easier if you have a rubber scraper on hand to distribute the melted soap base evenly across the mould.
Live outside of the United States? You can also buy rubber scrapers from AliExpress.
Soap Colouring
I used a rose gold coloured mica to colour my heart mosaic soap bars.
If you don’t have rose gold mica, you can make your own my mixing gold and raspberry-coloured micas at a ratio of 3:1.
Essential Oils or Fragrance Oils
Scenting your soap is optional, but most of us prefer a pretty smelling soap bar.
I scented my heart mosaic soap with a blend of Wild Orange and Ylang Ylang essential oil, but you can feel free to use your favourite combination of essential oils or your preferred fragrance oil.
If you are looking for ideas, check out my list of perfect essential oil soap scents.
Small Glass Measuring Cup
I highly recommend using a small glass measuring cup to pour the mosaic tiles. An espresso measuring cup (used by baristas) is ideal as it has a double spout, a wooden handle, and can withstand high heat.
Live outside of the United States? You can also buy espresso measuring cups from AliExpress.
Alcohol in a Small Spray Bottle
Alcohol (rubbing alcohol/isopropyl alcohol or vodka) has a number of uses when making melt and pour soap:
- Spraying the soap with alcohol once it’s poured will remove any bubbles sitting on the soap’s surface.
- Spraying alcohol between soap layers helps them adhere together.
- Spraying the soap mould with alcohol before pouring the soap helps the soap spread evenly across the bottom of the mould.
Additional Materials Required
Kitchen Scales – I’ve used grams in this recipe because the amounts are easier to manage compared with ounces. Most kitchen scales these days are interchangeable between grams and ounces. Check your scale’s instruction booklet for how to change your scale to measure in grams and then change it back when finished.
Glass Measuring Jug – You will need a larger (250ml/8oz) measuring jug to melt the white melt and pour soap base. I have a separate glass measuring jug dedicated to creative projects (soap making, lotion bars, lip balm etc) to avoid any cross-contamination of non-ingestible ingredients with food. I recommend you do the same.
Metal or Bamboo Skewer – Skewers are super handy for stirring and can be easily cleaned or disposed of. A wooden popsicle stick, or disposable spoon will also suffice.
Paper Cup – A wax-lined paper cup is used to collect the unused soap base after you have poured your base bars for use later to ‘grout’ around your mosaic heart embeds.
Cotton Buds – You will require cotton buds/swabs during the soap ‘grouting’ stage to clean up any soap base spilled on the mosaic soap tiles.
A Toothpick – A toothpick is required to perforate the mosaic heart embeds.
A Tray Lined with Greaseproof Baking Paper – Position the mosaic tile mould on a piece of greaseproof baking paper on a tray before pouring to allow for easy cleaning up (there will be drips) and transport while the soap is setting.
Microwave or Double Boiler – Melt your soap base in either a microwave or a double boiler.
Rose Gold Mosaic Heart Melt and Pour Soap Bars Video Tutorial
To make it easier for you to grasp the process, I created a video tutorial about how to make Rose Gold Heart Mosaic Soap Bars.
How to Make Rose Gold Heart Mosaic Soap Bars.
Want your cookie cutter mosaic soap to look like mine?
I used a combination of clear melt and pour soap base and white melt and pour soap base scented with Wild Orange and Ylang Ylang essential oils and tinted with rose gold mica to make three base soap bars.
I made a little more than I needed and poured the leftover soap base into a paper cup to be used later.
I then filled three sections of a mosaic tile silicone mould with clear soap base also tinted with rose mica and scented with Wild Orange and Ylang Ylang.
I carefully removed the mosaic soap slabs from the mould, ensuring they stayed in one piece.
I then used a heart-shaped cookie cutter to punch a heart-shaped mosaic soap embed out of each mosaic soap slab.
After perforating them with a toothpick, I positioned the mosaic soap embeds on top of the base bars.
Finally, I re-melted the leftover soap base and poured it around the mosaic soap embeds to ‘grout’ them in.
Rose Gold Mosaic Soap Printable Tutorial
Rose Gold Mosaic Heart Melt and Pour Soap Bars
Equipment
- Alcohol in a Small Spray Bottle (rubbing alcohol, isopropyl or vodka)
- Kitchen Scales
- Glass Measuring Jug
- Bamboo or Metal Skewer
- Tray lined with Grease-Proof Paper
- A Toothpick
- Cotton Buds (Q-Tips)
- A Paper Cup
- Microwave or Double Boiler
Ingredients
- 40 g White Melt and Pour Soap Base includes wastage
- 235 g Clear Melt and Pour Soap Base includes wastage
- Mosaic Tile Silicone Mould
- Base Soap Mould
- A Cookie Cutter smaller in size than your base soap mould
- Rubber Scraper
- Small Glass Measuring Cup
- Soap Colouring
- Soap Fragrance or Essential Oils optional
Instructions
- Set out all of your equipment and ingredients ready to be used.
Base Soap Bars
- Weigh out 160g (~5.65oz) of clear melt and pour soap base and 40g (~1.4oz) of white melt and pour soap base and cut it up into small cubes (this includes wastage).
- Put the soap cubes in a glass measuring jug.
- Melt your soap base as per the instructions in a microwave or double boiler.
- Add the soap colouring (liquid soap colouring or coloured mica) and fragrance oils/essential oils (if using) and stir well.
- Place a geometric soap mould on a tray and position it on top of a set of kitchen scales and press TARE.
- Pour 50g of liquid soap base into three cavities, resetting the scales to ‘0’ between pouring each cavity.
- Spray the surface of the soap with alcohol to remove any bubbles.
- Pour the remaining soap base into a paper cup to be used again later as ‘grout’ around the mosaic tile embeds (this ensures that the grout soap will have an identical colour and scent to the base soap bars).
Mosaic Embeds
- Place the mosaic tile silicone mould on a tray lined with greaseproof baking paper.
- Weigh out 75g (~2 ½oz) of clear melt and pour soap base and cut it up into small cubes (this includes wastage).
- Put the clear soap base cubes in a small glass measuring cup with a pouring spout.
- Melt your soap base as per the instructions in a microwave or double boiler.
- Add the soap colouring (liquid soap colouring or coloured mica) and fragrance oils/essential oils (if using) and stir well.
- Working quickly, pour the liquid soap base into three sections of the mosaic tile silicone mould.
- To ensure all of the tile cavities are filled evenly, spread the soap base around with a rubber scraper and spray alcohol to break the surface tension and remove any bubbles.
- Set the soap aside to set for 1 hour.
- Once the soap is set, turn the mosaic tile mould over and carefully peel away the silicone mould, ensuring the slabs stay in one piece.
- Using a cookie cutter, cut an embed from each of the three mosaic tile soap slabs. Do your best to ensure the tiles around the edge of the embed are not too small.
- Take a toothpick and punch holes around the mosaic tiles of each embed (where the grout lines will be).
Mosaic Soap Bars
- Once fully set, tear the paper cup away from the leftover soap base and cut it into cubes.
- Put the soap cubes in a small glass measuring cup with a pouring spout.
- Carefully remelt the soap base in a microwave or double boiler.
- Spray the mosaic soap embeds and the surface of the base soap bars liberally with alcohol.
- Pour a tiny amount of soap onto the top of a base soap bar and position a mosaic soap embed in the middle of the bar of soap. Liquid soap base should seep through the toothpick holes in the embed to help seal it into place.
- With your melted soap base in one hand, and your spray bottle of alcohol in the other, gently pour the liquid soap base around and over the mosaic soap tiles to ‘grout’ them into place.
- As you pour, spray the soap with alcohol to help it fill the small gaps between the mosaic soap tiles, and to remove any bubbles.
- Clean up any ‘grout’ soap covering the mosaic soap embed immediately with a cotton bud dipped in alcohol.
- Repeat steps 5-8 for the remaining two soap bars.
- Allow the soap bars to set overnight and then demould them by pushing from the bottom as you peel back the silicone mould.
Enjoy!