Microwaving Ivory Soap

This idea has been all over Pinterest in various forms since I started pinning.  The idea is to microwave a bar of Ivory soap for about 2 minutes, and see what happens.

It was pretty exciting to watch this small bar of soap turn into a big fluffy soap cloud!  It  is fun to touch, though it reminded the kids of cotton candy, so they had to be reminded not to put it in their mouths!  I put it into 2 separate bowls, so they could all take turns squishing and playing.  It turned into a silky flour-like substance.

 We mixed a bit of water with it, along with 2 drops of blue food colouring. I put it in the food processor (and of course they all needed a turn to pulse it).  We scooped it into a silicone mold, and hopefully in a day or two once it dries, we’ll have some “homemade soap.”

Someone had also suggested at this point, that you could add a bit of olive oil/coconut oil for added moisturizing, or some drops of essential oils.

All in all, a pretty cool experiment!

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Jenn vanOosten

I live in Hamilton, Ontario, and love my city. I'm a Netflixer, choral music geek, bookworm, inventor of recipes (I take Artistic Licence on EVERYTHING that I make), wife of one, mother of two, and owner of a neurotic Schnauzer. I respect people who respect others. I love good food that's well done, but my favourite lunch is KD & hotdogs. With ketchup. I'm addicted to Clearance Shopping. I will ALWAYS get the product that I want at the price that I want, eventually.

4 comments

  1. Anonymous
    June 18, 2012 at Monday, 18 June 2012

    So it really does work! I’ve seen it on Pinterest, and been meaning to try it.

    Reply
  2. S van Breda
    June 20, 2012 at Wednesday, 20 June 2012

    Why does it do that? I wonder if we could try it in the church’s microwave… 🙂

    Reply

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