Reminds me of a chocolate bar.  The glycerin soap comes in two varieties, clear and milky, and you add color to it when it is melted.

This was a hit, we definitely need to make soap again sometime.  I find that these glycerin based soaps don't feel like regular soap when dry.  They feel a little bit sticky to the touch, but they're still fun to make and fine for the kids.

Lynnea says: Hooray!  Now I can have a bath with my new soap.  I used a slice of the big bar (the one with the flower) for my bath yesterday.  I thought it was cool but it started to dissolve.

Lynnea is now dancing and cheering “I used dissolve. I used dissolve.”  Smart kid! 

The soap melts very fast, and hardens almost as fast.  You can see small areas which have already begun to dry here.

Lynnea received a Life of the Party “Cool Soap Kit” for Christmas.  It uses a glycerin based soap you can melt in the microwave, add colors and scents to, and then pour into molds.  If your timing is good, you can do multilayered bars of soap with different colors.

The melted soap is very hot!  Yowch!

Funny sidenote: the box probably also is sold in Canada, so the back looks just like the front, but all in French.  I learned from the French instructions that “melted soap” is “savon fondu”… mmmmm… soap fondue.

These came out really nice.  The only problem was that I waited a little too long to put the final clear layer on the bottom of the big bar.  Because the big bar had cooled too much, the clear layer doesn't stick very well to it.  You can see that in the section that had been cut away, the clear part promptly fell right off!

Lynnea says:  There is the flower!  Now can you see it?

Pat mixes up a batch of clear blue soap.  I am reminded of Romulan Ale.

Here are the sections of soap which are going to be melted.

Lynnea says: I am putting the purple color into the melted soap.  This was for the “Go Girl” bar.

Lynnea says: Aren't they cool looking? Mom is popping out the BIG bar of soap.  There is a flower inside the big bar!  You have to cut it in slices to see the flower.