Shea Butter - 2 Pound Melt and Pour Soap Base - Our Earth's Secrets

I purchased this melt and pour soap base to create Christmas gifts for my friends and family - I wanted something that was easy as I have never made soap before, but something that was also good for the skin and all natural. I performed hours of research and made several test batches before I came up with a perfect soap to suit everyone on my list (recipe below).1. After chopped into small cubes (1" x 1") the soap melted easy in the microwave - I placed it in a large pyrex measuring cup and melted in the microwave on 30 second bursts to prevent it from burning (I stirred it up between each 30 second burst) - I was super easy!2. It smells wonderfully clean and does not contain any artificial ingredients. This product does contain Titanium Dioxide, which gives it it's opaque color (I later found that this is the case for most soaps)3. It is smooth and creamy and feels really nice on the skin - It does not leave a greasy or oily residue.4. It lathers up pretty good, even with all of the extra ingredients I added to itExfoliating Soap Recipe3 cups Melt and Pour Soap Base1 tbsp baking soda1 tbsp coffee grounds1/2 tbsp French Green clay1/2 tbsp Shea or Mango Butter2 tsp Essential Oil of your choice1. Melt soap in microwave as described above2. Allow melted soap to cool a little before adding your other ingredients - this allows them to suspend more in the soap and not fall to the bottom3. Add shea or mango butter, coffee grounds, clay, and essential oil4. Stir until well blended5. Pour mixture into mold and let set overnight (it will set up in 3 - 4 hours, however, I like to allow it to completely harden before de-moldingHighly recommend this product for all of the reasons listed above.

I bought this product due to recommendations online from others who had used it. As a novice in working with melt-and-pour soap, I found it easy to work with and there was no problem in adding colorant and fragrance to the soap before it began to set up. The soap is mild and lathers well. I was very pleased with this product and recommend it highly.

I really love this soap base! It's great as a base or as a stand alone product. The lather is full and rich, it really delivers some nice suds and bubbles. Shea butter is super moisturizing and gives off an amazing and fresh, clean scent. I have been purchasing shea butter base for at least a year now and I just love it! This product is fabulous as a soap with a little honeysuckle fragrance, and I've also been making salt scrubs with this shea butter soap base. Salt scrubs are great with this product as a soap base, and blend beautifully with coconut and mango fragrances. Sugar scrubs also work great with this soap base, it's tendency is to leave your skin soft and creamy, not dry and scratchy.This product also does not have a funny smell like some of the other mp bases I have tried from other places, though I'll have to remember soap requires more fragrance next time I make it. Because I did not experience any sweating when using this product, it is by far the best melt and pour soap base I've ever used. It readily accepts color and fragrance, lathers up extremely well, works as a base for my soap bars, salt scrubs and sugar scrubs - and it does not leave a film on your skin either.- all in all I'll definitely be ordering this again.Shea Butter - 2 Lbs Melt and Pour Soap Base - Our Earth's Secrets

I bought to use for breastmilk soap. It lathers very easily, and has all natural ingredients!

I really like this soap base. Colors show up vibrant and the soap fills a mold nicely.

This is my first time using a melt and pour soap base. The quality of the soap base is really nice and produced a nice lather. I like that there isn't a lot of chemicals or additives in this base compared to others I researched. The scent of the shea soap base on its own is very neutral and soap-ish (unlike the goat's milk version), however, in one soap I made using this base, the scent overpowered the fragrance oils I added during the melting phase. I wanted to create a citrus scented soap, and used both sweet orange essential oil and lemon zest in the hopes of achieving this. The end result was not the zippy citrus scent I wanted, sadly, but rather something more along the lines of an orange creamsicle. In other soaps I created using this base (eucalyptus mint and chocolate coffee) the scent of the soap base was entirely masked over.Unfortunately, the many M&P soap-inspired Pinterest posts that I browsed before trying my hand at soap-making failed to mention the down-side of using glycerin-based M&P soaps, and that is the "sweating" that can happen after you've made your soaps. Indeed, two of the soaps I created (both with different scents and using different additives) had sweating issues after they were made. They also failed to lather when I attempted to use one after the sweating started to appear. This happened with both the goat's milk soap base and the shea butter soap base that I used from this company. Oddly enough, two other soaps I created (again, using different scents and additives) did NOT have sweating issues. I spent a long time trying to figure out WHY this was. The two soaps that did not sweat were both colored (one using activated charcoal and the other using cacao powder and coffee grounds). The two soaps that DID sweat, lacked any kind of colorant at all (so both soaps retained the color of the original soap base). I wondered if the colorant/powders made a difference. However, the two soaps that had sweating issues also had herb-infused olive oil added to them, and one had mango butter added, so THAT could have been an issue as well. The amount of oil/butter added to them, however, was minimal, and glycerin-based soap CAN sweat regardless, so it's anybody's guess or assumption as to what was the true cause for the sweating.Overall, the soaps that did not sweat turned out very nice, so this is a soap base I will use again in the future!