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Soap Making Kits

What You Need to Get Started

By David Fisher, About.com

Many of the items you need can already be found in your kitchen...and the rest can easily be found online. Here are some vendors that have put together soap making kits with quality items to get you started right.

1. Holiday Melt and Pour Soap Making Kit

Brambleberry
Getting started making your own Melt and Pour soaps is easy - and here are the ingredients you need including soap base, fragrance, colors and molds. Just add your own imagination. Also on this page are other kits to make soaps all year long.

2. Soapmaking Kits from Soapcrafters

Soapcrafters
From Christmas soaps to honey bee soaps to goldfish in a bag soaps, here are several melt and pour kits from Soapcrafters.

3. Deluxe Natural Soapmaking Kit

Cranberry Lane
If you're in Canada (or nearby) and want to get started with Cold Process soap, this is a great kit of ingredients and instructions.

4. Soapmaking Kits from Snowdrift Farm

Snowdrift Farms
A great supplier of many ingredients, Snowdrift has starter kits for soap, bath salts, lip balm, bath fizzies and more - in "a plain brown wrapper."

5. Deluxe Melt and Pour Soapmaking Kit from Cierra Candles

Cierra Candles
A super kit to try several different varieties of melt and pour soap base. Four bases, colors, a mold and 6 different fragrance samples. A great kit!

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