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Unmolded Jello Soap
After chilling the mold most of the day, I’ve turned it out onto the cutting board. Now, you’ll see why I wanted it cold.

Shred Shred Shred
I push it down the chute of my food processor using the shredding blade. If the soap was at room temperature, it will cause the food processor to jam. As it is, I just give it a gentle pressure to keep it moving, never forcing it. When the bowl is full, I dump it out and shred some more. I have to empty the bowl three times for the 1/2 pound of soap.

A full bowl
Here it is all dumped into the mixing bowl.

Stuffing the molds
I stuff the molds with the shredded soap. I want it to be loose enough for the white soap base to fill in the spaces, so I don’t pack it in too tight.

Chopping the White Soap Base
Using the bench scraper, I chop up a pound of the white soap base.

Ready to melt some more
I also throw in the heel of the soap that didn’t get shredded, and pop it in the microwave on 60% power for 5 min.

Adding the dyes
I want the white base to be slightly green tinted, so I add a bit of blue and yellow dye. I’ve also done this soap with pale orange, to go with the Ginger-Lime scent. I also add the scent now.

It’s so hot, the coconut oil is melted
Now you know why I put the soap in the fridge, eh? We are having a bit of a heatwave here. I should have put the coconut oil in the fridge too! Anyway, I add a tablespoon to the bowl.

Waiting for the Shea Butter to melt
I also add a tablespoon of Shea Butter. If you add too many/too much oils to the soap, you will get a nice soap but not a satisfying creamy foamy lather. Yeah, I figured that out by experience. ;/ This seems about the right balance for me.

Filling the molds
I pour the white base in the molds to fill in the spaces between the green shreddies. You can see the way it fills in on the clear container.

Turning out the molds
After letting the soaps cool for a few hours (it doesn’t take that long to cool, I just didn’t get to it sooner) I pop them out onto the cutting board to trim them up and make them into soap bars.

Did you see that? Whoops
There was an area that was either too densely packed, or I poured to slowly for the soap to fill in the blanks. Either way, it won’t make a good bar of soap, so I will cut that piece out.

Trimming up the bars
The other loaf looks great. I trim off the stuff that stuck to the sides of the mold and make some nice chunky soap bars.

Saving up the scraps
Those scraps can be put in a small mold, or this rice bowl, to make one final bar of soap. Just heat it up in the microwave for a few minutes at 60% power but keep an eye on it, since it’s much smaller than the larger quantities melted earlier. In the end, after cutting the smaller loaf into bars, I decided that it really wasn’t structurally sound, there were too many places that had air pockets. In the shower, a bar of soap like that would just fall apart. So, I ended up melting the whole loaf in the mold and let it set. It made a nice creamy green bar.

The final blocks
Here are the final products with the cool shreddy green colors in the center. Smells great, it’s husband approved ;/ and feels great on the skin.
I hope you’ll give it a try some time, even if you don’t do the shreddy bits. It really is a superior product to the supermarket soaps, even if you chop it out of the container it comes in and use it straight without the additives.
Enjoy!