Ever wanted to learn how to make felted soap? Felted soaps are awesome and are not difficult to make at home. You can create an array of personal designs with all sorts of different kinds of soaps. Aside from making personalized and handcrafted soap bars, felted soaps has quite a few other added benefits. It helps your soap last longer.
how to make felted soap
The felt helps clean your skin better by removing more dead skins cells, like a washcloth or loofa. And the wood is also fast drying hypoallergenic, anti-fungal, and anti-microbial Our step by step instructions show you just how easy it is to make felted soap.
It is also a fun project that makes a great gift!
Materials Needed to Make Felted Soap:
- Bar of soap – any kind you want
- Wool
- Felting pen
- Bowl of hot water
- Towel
Step 1: Stretch your wool
Lay out your base wool color. Pull out two long wide pieces of wool and over lap them in the shape of an x.
Step 2: Cover soap
Lay your soap on top of the wool. Wrap your wool around your soap.
Step 3: Dip in water
Dip the wool covered soap into your bowl of hot water and start rubbing the water into the wool.
Step 4: Felt and lather
Continue rubbing the wool together on all sides of the soap. You will start lathering the soap pretty well. Keep lathering! This is how you felt the wool together to stay around the soap.
Step 5: Keep up the lather
Just keep lathering and felting your soap! You will start to feel it some together.
Step 6: Rinse and dry off
Once you feel your soap is fully felted and doesn’t want to fall off, rinse the suds off and dry with a light pat it dry with a towel.
Step 7: Add your designs
At this point, you soap is pretty much finished. Now you can take it and felt any kind of design you want into the outside. This is fairly simple. Just take whatever color you want to use, a felting pen, and start pressing the wool into the felted soap with the pen.
Step 8: Enjoy your newly felted soap!
Try out your soap, or give it away to your friends and family for gifts.
Now that you know how to make felted soap, tell us who you’re gonna give your first creation.
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Dell says
March 18, 2014 at 4:20 amThis is a neat way to use soap. How long did you stay up to think of this one.
My mother made soap with old Greece and lye in water. Over an out side fire place.
In looking at your explanation I thought that what I was going to see, boy Was I ever surprised
Donna says
November 15, 2014 at 10:50 pmTotally cool! I didn’t know you could/would/can felt soap!!! My sister has sheep and I’m going to try this ASAP! So excited! I pinned you.
Rynna Machate says
December 10, 2014 at 10:40 amThanks Donna! Hope you liked it!
Debbie Wheelehan Rhodes says
May 3, 2017 at 4:31 pmWhat happens to the felt as the soap shrinks? And does it get clogged with soap scum? I really like this idea, if it doesnt turn into a ball of scummy wool. LOL