How To Carve Soap

The hot water will melt the soap and smooth any edges.

How to carve soap. Turning your soap over to do both sides. Ensure that they know how to hold It so that they do not cut themselves even by mistake. A good way to approach this is to imagine you are excavating some delicate artifact.

Draw a quick sketch of what you want your final object to look like. The practice soap is on. Do the overall shape first.

You can try out the plastic knife that will work on some soap bars before handing out the knives to the kids. Always unwrap a fresh soap when you are getting kids started out on soap carving. Ad We use only Natural and Sustainable ingredients in all of our Soaps Candles and More.

I use this lesson w. Simply dip the Q-tip into hot water and gently rub on the rough surface. Collect plastic knives that are sharp enough to cut through the soap.

In a sense youre digging your design out of the bar of soap. Then start to carve out the details. Draw design on paper within the pencilled outline.

Start using your knife to remove material from the bar of soap using your etchings as guidelines. Use a skewer or toothpick to draw the outline of a turtle on your soap. Make rough cuts into the soap until youve cut.