This frankincense and myrrh soap recipe is a great option for holiday gifting. With the luxury of infused frankincense oil, myrrh essential oil, and gold mica reminiscing of Christmas tales, it makes a great personal use soap, guest soap, or gift.
Melt and pour soaps are a quick and efficient gift option. You can make one batch, and have several individual soaps for gift baskets, wellness baskets, or just as hostess gifts. Since soap is also needed around the house, and soap doesn’t go bad, you can make these soaps at any time and just keep them on hand until needed.
This frankincense, gold, and myrrh soap recipe is designed after the tale of the Three Wise Men. With infused frankincense oil to bring the benefits of frankincense into your soap, myrrh essential oil to bring the fascinating woodsy scent of myrrh, and gold mica for the adding bling, glitter, and luxury. This soap is simply fun.
Another great melt-and-pour soap option is this snowflake soap recipe, with a deep blue background and stark white snowflakes. Combine both recipes for fun holiday themed soap, for gifts or personal use. If you have gardening friends, this lightly abrasive coffee soap is another easy and fun soap to make. For more holiday scents and fun, using hot-processed lye soap, this candy-cane soap, or this pumpkin spice soap, are also fun options.
Frankincense and Myrrh Soap Recipe
Description
A refreshing melt-and-pour soap with frankincense, myrrh, and gold mica for bling.
Ingredients
- 2 ounces goat’s milk melt and pour soap base
- 8 ounces honey melt and pour soap base
- 1 tablespoons frankincense infused hemp seed oil
- ½ teaspoon kings gold mica (lip safe/eye safe), divide
- 15 drops frankincense essential oil
- 15 drops myrrh essential oil
- 30 drops honeybell essential oil blend
- 6 cavity soap mold for guest soaps
- Spray bottle of isopropyl alcohol
Instructions
- Cut up goat’s milk melt and pour soap base into one inch pieces. Place in heat proof, glass measuring cup. Microwave in 15 second bursts until soap base is melted.
- Cut up honey melt and pour soap base. Place in another heat proof, glass measuring cup. Add frankincense infused oil. Microwave in 15 second burst until soap base is melted. Stir to fully combine melted soap base and oil.
- Add ¼ teaspoon gold mica to each soap base. (1/2 teaspoon gold mica divided between two glass measuring cups) Stir well to fully combine.
- Add essential oils to the honey soap base mixture. Stir well to fully combine. Prepare soap molds by spraying mold cavities with isopropyl alcohol.
- Pour honey melt and pour base into each mold cavity until it is ¾ full.
- Pour goat’s milk soap base into each mold cavity to the side of the cavity, dividing it evenly between all mold cavities.
- Using a small dowel or skewer, drag the skewer through the soap mold cavity in a swirling pattern, to swirl the milk soap base.
- Spritz each filled mold cavity with rubbing alcohol to remove the surface tension and release any air bubbles. Set the mold aside to cool and harden 3 to 4 hours.
- Once soap is fully hardened remove the soap from the mold. Set aside for a few hours. Package with plastic wrap and label. Plastic wrap may be heat sealed using a hair dryer or heat gun for a professional finish.
Notes
*To make frankincense infused oil, put 1 tablespoon of powdered frankincense resin and 2 tablespoons olive oil in a heat proof measuring cup. Place the cup over water in a saucepan. Simmer the saucepan over low heat for 30 minutes. Stir the mixture several times during heating. Remove from heat and let it cool down naturally. Strain. Measure oil for use in this recipe.
Ingredients:
2 ounces goat’s milk melt and pour soap base
8 ounces honey melt and pour soap base
1 tablespoons frankincense infused hemp seed oil
½ teaspoon kings gold mica (lip safe/eye safe), divide
15 drops frankincense essential oil
15 drops myrrh essential oil
30 drops honeybell essential oil blend
6 cavity soap mold for guest soaps
Spray bottle of isopropyl alcohol
Directions:
Cut up goat’s milk melt and pour soap base into one inch pieces. Place in heat proof, glass measuring cup. Microwave in 15 second bursts until soap base is melted.
Cut up honey melt and pour soap base. Place in another heat proof, glass measuring cup. Add frankincense infused oil. Microwave in 15 second burst until soap base is melted. Stir to fully combine melted soap base and oil.
Add ¼ teaspoon gold mica to each soap base. (1/2 teaspoon gold mica divided between two glass measuring cups) Stir well to fully combine.
Add essential oils to the honey soap base mixture. Stir well to fully combine. Prepare soap molds by spraying mold cavities with isopropyl alcohol.
Pour honey melt and pour base into each mold cavity until it is ¾ full.
Pour goat’s milk soap base into each mold cavity to the side of the cavity, dividing it evenly between all mold cavities.
Using a small dowel or skewer, drag the skewer through the soap mold cavity in a swirling pattern, to swirl the milk soap base.
Spritz each filled mold cavity with rubbing alcohol to remove the surface tension and release any air bubbles. Set the mold aside to cool and harden 3 to 4 hours.
Once your frankincense and myrrh soap is fully hardened remove the soap from the mold. Set aside for a few hours. Package with plastic wrap and label. Plastic wrap may be heat sealed using a hair dryer or heat gun for a professional finish.
*To make frankincense infused oil, put 1 tablespoon of powdered frankincense resin and 2 tablespoons olive oil in a heat proof measuring cup. Place the cup over water in a saucepan. Simmer the saucepan over low heat for 30 minutes. Stir the mixture several times during heating. Remove from heat and let it cool down naturally. Strain. Measure oil for use in this recipe.
Back to You:
What melt and pour soaps have you made? If you made this gold, frankincense and myrrh soap, how did it turn out?
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I guess I’m a bit slow, but I don’t understand why you need to melt 3 different things separately and add in the oil separately and then the gold and then pour everything into the mold, then swirl everything together? Wouldn’t it be easier and faster to melt everything together then add the oils and glitter and pour into the molds? I’ve never made soap before so I’m just curious about why so complicated? Wouldn’t it turn out right if you just did it all at once? Wonderful recipe though.
I personally do melt and pour it all together. It works just fine for me.