Beach Wedding Favor: Sand Dollar Shaped Hand Soap

Looking for a great handmade wedding favor with a beach theme? These beach wedding favor hand soaps are easy to make! Hand made soaps in Sand Dollar designs are a fun gift that is easy to make and perfect to give to your wedding guest as well as any hostess.

The best part of this fun handmade beach wedding favor gift is that one size fits all! Making hand made soap is very easy. Even if you have never made soap before, you should be able to easily complete this simple Sand Dollar project in less than 2 hours. You should expect to pay about $15 - $20 for materials, but you can get a lot of small Sand Dollar soaps out of one batch.

Bridesmaids and grooms can help with this simple Sand Dollar soap craft, but they will need supervision because you will be working with hot materials.

To make some Sand Dollar soaps You Will Need:

Sand Dollars (1 - 4)

Round cookie cutters (the same size as your sand dollars)

1 lb Block of Heat and Pour Soap

Essential Oils (optional)

1 microwave safe measuring cup or bowl
cookie cutters
clay
wax paper
knife

1lb blocks heat and pour soap is available at craft supply stores in glycerin or coconut base. It is a simple product to work with a very affordable.

Essential Oil, which is optional, is also available at almost any craft or art supplier store. Essential oils are great if you want to add a tropical fragrance to the soap like coconut, vanilla, melon, eucalyptus, or even cinnamon.

Now, the first step is to roll out clay on a piece of wax paper. You want to set in your rounded cookie cutter into the clay but do not cut all the way through.

Now, take your sand dollar and drop it into the cookie cutter. Face down. You want to press the sand dollar into the clay. You are trying to capture the detail on the surface of the sand dollar in the surface of the clay.

I recommend pressing down until the back of the sand dollar is flush with the clay.

Now, remove the sand dollar.

Now, Cut your one-pound soap block into 1" squares. Next, place it into a microwave safe cup. You want to melt it for 15 seconds on high. If soap is not completely melted microwave in 5-second increments until fully melted. It is important to not overheat your soap block material.