Can you buy cheap melt and pour soaps?

[pipskicks]

I have heard some soap manufacturers just buy melt and pour soaps and just add the fragrance and use that. I was wondering if it was pretty cheap to get a random melt and pour soap that wasn't scented. I have some EO (not a lot) but I have been liking just playing around with scenting soap etc. and I thought if I could buy some cheap melt and pour soaps, I could play around with them for a bit cheaper (buying a regular melt and pour soap that's scented/retail isn't so cheap to "play" with).


I guess maybe this can only be done in bulk/wholesale, but I thought maybe there were some cheap melt and pour bases around, I may look around Ebay and such, but I was wondering if anyone else has tried this and maybe knows more specifically about how to get them.

 

[pipskicks]

You can buy regular melt and pour base from a craft shop such as Michael's, if you have that chain store or something like it where you live. It's not a shaving soap melt and pour however, for that you'd have to go to a specialty supplier online, like Brambleberry.

Thanks!!! I know we have something like that, I'm definitely going to check it out.

To be honest, I tried this out on some shaving soap melt and pour types, but I used them as regular soap and was just experimenting. I would love to get a longer lasting soap to do this with, I find it pretty fun

 

[breadstick]

Brambleberry melt and pour shaving soap isn't bad. I enjoyed it with some pipe tobacco fragrance oil

 

[pipskicks]

Brambleberry melt and pour shaving soap isn't bad. I enjoyed it with some pipe tobacco fragrance oil

I might look into that next, I just have enough shaving soap and I guess I've liked the Tallow ones more. I really had some interest because I used some of the shave soap I didn't want in the shower, it didn't last too long thought, but I'd really like to try using some regular bath soap just so it lasts more than a few uses

 

[pipskicks]

In case anyone searches for this or is interested in online ways of purchasing this, I found this with a little bit of searching. They have them with Shea Butter or Coco Butter too and great prices:
http://www.camdengrey.com/essential-oils/Raw-Materials-Bases-Melt-Pour/


I should add, not only do I not have any connection to that site, I never ordered from them, so order at your own risk. It does seem to be really cheap though!.

 

[pipskicks]

Thanks everyone for the help! Online the 2 LBS. of soap was ridiculously expensive to have shipped. However, I checked out 2 crafts stores (only 1 didn't have it) and I got a 2 LBS. Melt and Pour Shea-Butter soap base for $10 (and then 50% off with a coupon booyah!).
Plus picked up some cheap Essential Oil for $5/.5 oz. It was very cheap, but I have to admit the mom and pop shop charged a decent amount more, maybe even twice as much, but their selection was at least 20x as large! Plus smelling it before you buy it is an awesome perk and probably worth some of that extra cost. I'm sure there might be some differences in purity of the oil, but I don't really know personally.


Anyways, it's a pretty fun project if you have free time. It's also extremely easy...

 

[kande92]

How's the soapmaking going? I'm the the Los Angeles area, too and I'm downsizing my soapmaking business... I have several cases of soap and some fragrances I could sell to you at a huge discount. Let me know if you are interested.



http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/art/3767173470.html

 

[Slash McCoy]

Well, for an impulse buy of a small quantity, there is always VDH from the drugstore. Very little scent of its own. Make it yours, with your own scent.