This mini rose embed melt and pour soap is filled with tiny pink and yellow roses and little green leaves, all set in crystal clear soap. The embeds are made with luxurious avocado butter melt and pour base, a small rose mold and a leaf fondant cutter. It’s a sweet floral soap, and the embed tricks here work for lots of other designs too.
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Materials & Tools
Soap Bases
- Avocado butter melt and pour soap base for the roses and leaves
- Crystal clear melt and pour soap base to hold the embeds
Color & Scent
- Poppin Pink, Yellow Sunset and Tail Green from this Stardust mica set or individual Stardust micas
- Fragrance oil for the colored embeds
Tools
- Mini rose silicone mold
- Leaf fondant plunger cutter
- Silicone cake pan for pouring a thin sheet of green soap
- Multi shape silicone soap mold
- A spatula and a chopstick or skewer
- Spray bottle of 91% isopropyl alcohol
- Thermometer
Fragrance Amount
I scented only the colored roses and leaves, not the clear soap. Use up to 5 ml of fragrance oil per 16 oz (1 lb) of soap base. You can always use less if you like a lighter scent, but don’t go over 5 ml per 16 oz.
How to Make Mini Rose Embed Melt and Pour Soap
1. Melt and Color Small Batches
Melt a small amount of avocado butter base. Mine was about 156–158°F. I only had one rose mold, so I melted just what I needed and repeated the process. Mix each mica with a little alcohol and stir it into its own cup of soap: pink, yellow and green. This base skins over at a higher temperature than most, so work quickly.
2. Pour the Rose Centers
Pour yellow into the rose cavities. It doesn’t have to be perfect, and pouring in the 160s°F is fine. While it’s still hot, tip the mold so the yellow drips out and leaves just a coating inside.
3. Fill with Pink
Pour pink over the yellow to fill the roses. It’s fine to overpour. Run a spatula across the top to scrape off the extra and spray with alcohol. Some roses can be all pink or all yellow for variety.
4. Pour and Cut the Leaves
Pour a thin layer of green soap into a silicone cake pan. Once it’s set, press the leaf fondant cutter all the way down and cut out leaves. Peel up the extra soap and lift the leaves out.
5. Unmold the Roses
The opaque base takes longer to set than clear, so make sure the roses are dry first. Then gently pop them out and clean any extra soap off the bottoms. Repeat until you have enough embeds.
6. Let the Embeds Cool Completely
This is important. Let the embeds sit out for one to two hours before using them. If they’re even a little warm, they’ll melt into the clear soap. Mine sat for about three hours.
7. Place the Roses in Clear Soap
Melt a little clear base and let it cool to about 124°F. Pour just enough to cover the bottom of the mold, then spray the roses with alcohol and place them face down, wherever you like. When that layer sets, score it, spray with alcohol and pour a little more clear soap. Aim for the 130s°F so you don’t melt the roses.
8. Add the Leaves
Pour more clear soap and add the leaves behind the roses so they make a green background. Unfold any folded leaves. They’re slippery with alcohol, so place them gently without disturbing the layer underneath. Hold back any skin with a chopstick as you pour. Let the soap set.
9. Unmold
Pop the soap out of the mold. The front shows the roses through the clear soap, framed by the leaves.
Tips & What I Learned
- Let embeds rest 1–2 hours. Warm embeds melt into the clear soap.
- Melt a bigger batch of clear soap. A small amount cools fast and keeps skinning over.
- Pour clear soap in the 130s°F. Hotter soap can melt the roses, and bright pinks may bleed.
- Make leaves from a thin sheet. A fondant cutter turns one layer of soap into lots of leaves.
- Mix up the roses. All pink, all yellow and two-tone roses look great together.
Troubleshooting
My roses melted into the clear soap.
They were still warm, or the clear soap was too hot. Let embeds rest longer and pour in the 130s°F.
The clear soap keeps forming a skin.
Melt a larger batch so it holds heat, and stir the skin out or hold it back with a chopstick.
The pink bled into the clear.
Strong pinks can bleed in hot soap. Pour cooler.
FAQ
How much fragrance oil should I use?
Up to 5 ml per 16 oz of soap base. You can always use less, but don’t use more than 5 ml per 16 oz.
Why not scent the clear soap?
Fragrance can cloud clear soap. Scenting the embeds keeps the clear part crystal clear.
Can I use a different base for the roses?
Yes. Shea butter melt and pour works too. I liked how the avocado butter base felt.
More Rose Soap Ideas
- Rose Embed Melt and Pour Soap
- Daisy Flower Embed Melt and Pour Soap
- Floral Embed Melt and Pour Soap
- Summer Roses Melt and Pour Soap
- All my melt and pour soap tutorials on YouTube
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