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My 8 year old granddaughter is in love making her own soap.

It was fun to make with my autistic sister.

This was a fun activity. I have a 6 and 3.5 year olds and they enjoyed it. Definitely had to help with the microwaving and pouring aspects because the soap gets hot, but they had fun mixing and matching colors and adding glitter. Wish there were more scents though, but I ended up adding some of my own essential oils. I stuck the molds outside (it was 10 F that day) and the soap in the molds cooled within 10 mins, so we were able to use the molds again very quickly. There was double the amount of soap blocks than molds, so you have to reuse the molds multiple times. Soap is very sudsy, so now we have enough soap to last for literally ever, or until they get sick of it :)

Fun to make soap with a little one ! Easy instructions perfect for rainy days

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It’s summertime and since my wife and are are both teachers, it’s important for us to find creative and educational way to keep our 5-year-old son occupied.This was a hit! Here are some tips:- I put a full bar it in the microwave for closer to 12 seconds. Just watch it because you do not want it to boil over. My first try, it wasn’t melted enough and ended up a goopy mess. After melting it fully, it was perfect! Just be quick to mix in your dye color, fragrance, and glitter and pour into the mold.- a couple of my molds leaned to one side and weren’t level. A quick fix is to use one of the popsicles on one side to level it out.- super awesome tip is to do layers! I decided to do one like a rainbow popsicle and simply did layer by layer. The bottom layer just needs to slightly harden prior to adding the new layer on top.Have fun! and remember, it can get messy, but it is SOAP so it’s easy to clean. My son’s hands have never been cleaner in his life. 😂

In hindsight, I don't think a soap making kit is the best idea for little kids. Unless you have four microwave safe measuring cups with handles laying around, all the kids get to do is drop in the color, glitter and scent and then tell you where to pour it. You definitely have to heat it up to a higher degree than what they tell you, otherwise it'll start solidifying before you even get to mix the color in and you can feel it right through the little plastic beakers. Doesn't make for a lot of hands on time for kids. The scents are of surprisingly good quality. All in all, it's cute, you can make probably 2 of soaps of each mould but not very kid friendly and you're done before you know it. My 8 year old daughter is looking forward to gifting a few of them to her dad for Father's Day, but she doesn't seem to be very interested in trying it again. She definitely expected to get to do more with it than what she ended up being able to.

I brought this for my 7 year old niece who loves doing arts and crafts. She was extremely happy with her gift!