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Berry Garden Cold Process Soap Bar – A Whimsical Cottagecore Soap Spell 🍓✨ (DIY)

  • Zorro
  • 12 dec 2025
  • 4 minuten om te lezen

If you’ve ever wished your soap looked like something straight out of an enchanted cottage garden — sweet berries, glossy embeds, soft whipped topping and pastel swirls — this is the craft you’ve been waiting for.




Freshly baked pumpkin pound cake, topped with a rich maple brown butter glaze – the perfect cozy treat for autumn afternoons.

This Berry Garden Cold Process Soap Bar is fruity, magical, summery, and a little bit witchy.Think: blueberries, raspberries, dusty green leaves, a dreamy swirl, and a frosty mica dusting that makes the whole loaf sparkle like morning dew.

Below you’ll find the full recipe, every ingredient I used (with links!), and a clear step-by-step guide so you can make this soap exactly as I did.


Let’s get into the berry magic, babes. ✨



Ingredients & Where I Bought Everything

Everything linked below is exactly what I used while making this soap loaf.



🔥 LYE WATER

Make this first. Let it cool completely.

Safety witch tip: Always add lye to water. Never the other way around. Your container must be lye-safe — some plastics melt.

Set aside and let it fully cool before adding it to the oils.



✨ Melt & Pour Embeds


We’re making:

• Blueberries (blue mica)

• Raspberries (pink/red mica)

• Leaves (green mica)



Molds I used:


How I made them:

  1. Melt the M&P base in the microwave in short bursts.

  2. Add your mica colorants.

  3. Pour into the molds.

  4. Unmold once fully set.

  5. Make as many as you want — I made a lot! 🍓✨

These can be made days in advance.


✨ Hard Oils & Butters

Melt together:

Melt gently and stir the large pieces so you don’t overheat the mixture.


✨ Liquid Oils

Add all liquid oils to the melted butters.


✨ Fragrance Oil

This scent is fruity, fresh, and so perfect for a berry garden theme.


✨ Soap Loaf Mold


✨ Step-by-Step Tutorial


✨ 1. Prepare Your Lye Water

Add lye to water (never the opposite), stir, and let it cool. Add sodium lactate once cooled.


✨ 2. Melt Hard Oils

Stir often while melting so everything heats evenly.


✨ 3. Add Liquid Oils + Fragrance

Combine your melted hard oils with your liquid oils.Add fragrance oil and mix gently.


✨ 4. Add Cooled Lye Water

Blend with a stick blender until you reach light trace.Light trace = thin ribbons that melt back into the batter.


✨ 5. Divide & Color

Split your batter into three bowls:

• Green

• Purple

• Pink

Blend from lightest → darkest so you don’t need to clean your mixer between colors.


✨ 6. Create the Swirl

Pour the three colors back into one large bowl, layering them gently. Do NOT mix. The batter will create its own natural swirl — witchcraft, honestly.


✨ 7. Pour into the Loaf Mold

Fill almost to the top.


✨ 8. Whipped Cream Topping

Let leftover batter thicken.Scoop into a piping bag with a piping tip. Pipe your whipped topping across the loaf.


✨ 9. White Mica Frost

Dust a little white mica on top for the cutest frosty glow.


✨ 10. Add Embeds

Place your handmade blueberries, raspberries and leaves on top while the frosting is still soft.


✨ 11. Rest, Unmold & Cure

Let the soap rest for 48 hours, then unmold and slice into 10–12 bars.Cure for 8 weeks.

Patience is part of the spell ✨


🌙 Why You’ll Love This Soap


This bar is pure cottagecore fantasy.The embeds make it whimsical, the swirls make it artistic, the topping makes it dessert-like. It smells like summer berries and feels silky and luxurious.

It’s handmade magic — literally.


🌙 How easy was this craft?

★★☆☆☆


Not hard, just detailed — perfect for anyone who loves creative soap art. However because of the lye i will put this one on 2 out of 5 stars



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Disclaimer: This DIY and craft blog provides general information and ideas for creative projects. While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy and safety of the content, the blog owner is not responsible for any errors, damages, or injuries that may occur as a result of following the tutorials or instructions provided. Readers are advised to use their discretion, take necessary safety precautions, and conduct their own research before attempting any project. The blog owner also holds no liability for the outcome or satisfaction of projects attempted by readers.

If I use any kinds of patterns I will not show the pattern, you can buy them in the link provided.

 
 
 

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