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If you don't have a hobby to do on your free time, then one hobby that you can try taking up that will surely take up a lot of your time is soap making. This hobby can be done by anyone of all ages since it is very easy to do. What makes this a fun hobby is by thinking of creative ways of how to design your soap.

The first thing that you need to know in soap making is of course, how to make your basic soap. Once you have perfected your technique and you are already adept at making any type of soap that you want, you can move on to creating and designing your own soaps in whatever way you like.

Making soap will only require a few ingredients. The two most important ingredients are oil and lye. In addition to these, you will need coloring dyes, fragrant oils and other ingredients such as lotions or herbal extracts to give your soap added properties. Also, using different types and combinations of oils will alter the basic properties of your soap.

Once you have already practiced and perfected your technique of soap making, you can now use different kinds of molds in order to give your soap a nice shape. But relying just on molds is boring and you may want to further improve on your soap. You may use knives to sculpt your soap while it is still soft so that you may add some personal touches to your soap design.

You may also want to make some color designs on your soap. One such color design that you can try is making a tie-dye effect. By slowly pouring in your dye while mixing your soap mixture is a good way to make a design. Let this harden so that the color pattern may become permanently embedded in the soap.

The same way how you made creative designs with clay when you were younger, you can also apply those same designs when making your soap. It will be a bit harder since soap is not as malleable as clay. You will have to be creative on how you will put into action the designs in your head.

With this hobby, your final products will not go to waste even if you made a mistake with your soaps. Rejected soaps can still be used for cleaning yourself when taking a shower. As for your more beautiful designs, you can put them in your bathroom to make it more appealing, give them out as gifts or even sell them if your designs are really great.

This hobby is a great way to work with your hands while also stimulating your mind to think of creative ways to design your soap. If you enjoyed making things with your hands when you were younger, you will definitely enjoy doing this hobby as well.

Jen Hopkins has worked in the skin care industry for years. She maintains websites about cold process soap recipes, and melt and pour soap recipes. If you want to contact her, you can use the contact form at one of her sites.