Melt & Pour Fall Scented Homemade Soap

I have a recipe for melt-and-pour homemade soap that is perfect for fall.

This fall essential oil blend reminds you of bright-colored leaves, crisp mornings, and a spicy aroma that reminds us all of autumn.

Today, I’ll show you how to capture that perfect blend of these fall scents into homemade honey glycerin fall-scented soap.

If you’ve never made homemade soap before – it’s okay! This version of DIY soap is a lot easier than you might think!

What You’ll Need for this Easy Melt & Pour Fall Season Soap:

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2 lb block of Our Earth’s Secrets Honey Glycerin Soap Base – this is enough for 12 bars

Silicone Mold

Sweet Orange Essential Oil 

Clove Essential Oil

Cinnamon Essential Oil

1/4 cup Ground Walnut Shells

2 cup glass measuring cup (Pyrex is my favorite)

burlap ribbon, twine, and cinnamon sticks

This recipe makes 12 bars.

I like this particular soap base because it’s the perfect color for a fall scent.

Plus, it has grade A honey in it!! It is also natural with no harsh chemicals. Combine this with essential oils and walnut shells, you have a natural, toxic free soap that doesn’t contain harsher ingredients like you’ll find in the cheaper soaps from the store!

I also like that this soap base is a product of the USA!

For this fall scent essential oil recipe, I combined 3 essential oils:

Clove Bud

Cinnamon Bark

Sweet Orange

**I have Aura Cacia oils pictured above because this brand is at my local grocery store.  I also love Eden’s Garden Essential Oils on Amazon.

What’s nice about making your own melt & pour soaps is that you can create your own custom scents. I particularly like this trio of essential oils because the spices of the clove and cinnamon remind me of Christmas, but the orange brightens it up, making it perfect for fall!

There are other oils that emulate autumn air that you can experiment with to make your own blend.  Try oils like:

–vanilla

–sandalwood

–patchouli

–ginger

–frankincense 

If you have a specific recipe of other fall scents you’ve created, I’d LOVE if you’d share with it with me in the comments!

Instructions on how to make your melt and pour fall-scented soap:

When you order your honey glycerin soap, it will come in 2 – 1lb blocks. I make my soap in 2 different batches, because my Pyrex measuring cup can only fit one pound (or one-half of the glycerin soap brick) at a time.

1.  Start by taking one of your 1lb blocks of soap and cut it into cubes. This soap is very easy to cut with a sharp knife. Place the cubes into your Pyrex measuring cup.

2.  Microwave it in 30 second intervals, stirring each time. This is what mine looked like after one minute.

3.  After another 30 seconds, it almost melted, but not quite.

4.  One more 30 second zap and the soap is 100% liquefied. I then added 1/4 cup of crushed walnut shells.

(My 7 year old loved helping me pour in the ingredients!) Adding crushed walnut shells really is optional, but I love adding them for both texture and exfoliating purposes when using the soap. If you want your soap smooth, you can leave this step out.

5.  For my fall scent oil combo, I used 20 drops of orange essential oil, 10 drops of clove, and 10 drops of cinnamon oil. If you like your soap to be really potent smelling, then I’d double the drops of essential oil for this fall blend.

Here is the liquid honey glycerin soap with the walnut shells and essential oils well mixed.

6.  Next you will want to pour it into the silicone mold. 1 lb of soap base makes 6 bars. So after you make 2 batches, your 12 soap molds will be full.

PRO TIP:  To get rid of the bubbles that form on top of the soap as you pour is to spray them with a half and half mixture of isopropyl alcohol and water. Give it just one or two sprays and the bubbles disappear so you’ll have a nice smooth bottom as it hardens.

7.  Wait a few hours for your soap to cool and harden, and you can pop it out of the mold. You can see that most of the walnut shells sunk to the bottom – which is nice because you have one side of the soap that will be specifically for exfoliation.

8.  If you are making these as gifts, then you can add some burlap ribbon, twine, and a small stick of cinnamon to present it as the perfect DIY soap gift idea! 

You can also print out these free soap labels to wrap around soap for gifts. Just fill out the form below and the PDF will come to your inbox where you can print.

If you want recipes to 11 other melt & pour soap recipes, that can be used as the perfect homemade Christmas gift, grab my eBook over here!

Feel free to create your own blends and share them in the comments below!

These soaps would also make a lovely favor for your friends and family invited to your Thanksgiving dinner feast! If you are looking for the lowest turkey prices of the season, then go here for the local turkey price deals.