DIY Easter Peeps Soap Tutorial
Easter is late again this year, but that gives you plenty of time to make these darling homemade Easter inspired Peeps soaps! Even last minute these cute, pastel colored and scented Peeps soaps can be made in a very short amount of time on a free afternoon. Plus they are super easy to craft and look absolutely darling in Easter baskets! Make one Peep soap at a time or easily increase this Peeps soap recipe for the amount of Easter Peeps soaps desired.
The Peeps soap mold I used was not an “official” Peeps mold. I saw a yellow silicone mold that made twelve “Peeps” on an end cap at Target last week and snatched it up. It was just under $10, unfortunately I was careless and tossed the packaging before grabbing the company name. If you have a different mold, no worries. I’ll tell you how to adjust your recipe! I did see that Michael’s sells an official Peeps mold, but it’s much smaller and includes both chicks and bunnies. Alternately, Wilton makes a bunny silicone mold.
DIY Easter Peeps Soap Recipe
Ingredients:
2.65 oz. natural (detergent free) white melt & pour glycerin soap base
1 ml fragrance oil
2-3 drops liquid melt & pour soap colorant
For the eyes:
.25 oz. natural (detergent free) clear melt & pour glycerin soap base
1-2 drops black melt & pour soap colorant
Instructions:
This Easter Peeps soap recipe makes one chick shaped Peep soap so you can individually customize each Peep a different scent and color. To make multiple Peeps that are all the same color and fragrance simply multiply the recipe by the number of Peeps you want to make up to the number of cavities in your mold. (You don’t need to multiply the soap for the eyes.)
I made my Peeps soaps in different colors and fragrances for a fun mix. The orange chick is scented with lemongrass mint, the pink chick is scented with pink berry mimosa, and the yellow chicks are scented with a Be Delicious Blossom type fragrance oil.
Start by weighing out the amount of melt and pour soap base needed for the number of Peeps you are making with a digital kitchen scale, then cut into chunks and melt in the microwave. Add the fragrance oil using a graduated plastic transfer pipette to measure out the correct amount. Add 2-3 drops of colorant to suit and stir well, than pour into the mold cavity. Allow to cool and harden completely – do not freeze – then carefully turn out of the silicone mold.
Once you’ve made all of the chicks desired you can make the eyes. If you can’t find a liquid black colorant, you can mix red, blue and yellow liquid soap colorants together to make brown. Alternately, you can use a touch of activated charcoal or Australian midnight black clay to color the clear soap base.
Melt a small chunk of the clear soap base in the microwave, then add the colorant and mix well. Allow to cool slightly – but not too much or the eyes won’t stick correctly! – then using the tip of a dull pencil dip the pencil into the soap then dot onto one side of the chick. Blow to harden the soap, then repeat on the opposite side for the second eye. Repeat with all of the chicks you made.
Now simply package your Peeps soaps as desired and they are ready for gifting in friends’ and family’s Easter baskets! If you are making these to sell, keep in mind that Peeps is a registered trademark and you cannot use it in your descriptions! However, if you are making these as gifts or giving them away you can call them whatever you like!
If you are using a different Peeps soap mold than I am, then here’s how to determine amounts needed for each Peep. Melt about 3 oz. of soap base in the microwave then pour into one cavity of the mold until full. Allow to harden completely then remove from the mold. Weigh the Peep on a digital scale. This is the amount of soap you need in ounces. For smaller Peeps, you’ll use one to two drops of colorant. For larger Peeps use two to three drops of colorant. For the amount of fragrance needed take the weight of the Peep and multiply it by .02 or 2%. Google “how many ml in an ounce” then plug in the amount you got by multiplying the soap base by .02 into the US oz. spot to convert to ml. This is how many ml of fragrance you can use maximum. (For my recipe you can use up to 1 1/2 ml but I chose to use less fragrance as I didn’t want my Peeps overwhelmingly scented.) For essential oils, use half the amount or 1/2 – 1% of the soap base weight.
For more homemade Easter basket gift ideas follow my DIY Homemade Easter Crafts and Treats board on Pinterest. You can also find more homemade soap recipes by visiting and following my DIY Bath and Body board.
13 Comments
Sally
March 16, 2014 at 7:26 pm
Anyone have any luck finding a mold like this? I think these are the dearest things ever and would really like to make some. But can’t find this mold anywhere.
Rebecca D. Dillon
March 16, 2014 at 8:45 pm
I couldn’t seem to find it online, but Target does sell them.
Lina
March 16, 2014 at 11:27 pm
These are so adorable! I’m visiting from Creative Bloggers Collective and am definitely pinning this for later! I hope I can find a mold like this or similar to it!
~Lina
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Sally
March 18, 2014 at 4:45 pm
I FOUND THE MOLD. Bunnies too. At Target, in the Easter candy department.
The company name on the packaging is Chicago Metallic.
I can hardly wait to start making them.
Sally
Rebecca D. Dillon
March 18, 2014 at 5:50 pm
Thanks for sharing the company name! I also did not see them on the Target website. I believe they are an in store only item.
Sally
March 18, 2014 at 5:09 pm
I found the molds at Target, chicks and bunnies, the company on the packaging is Chicago Metallics. But I did not see anything on their website about these molds.
The molds were in the Easter candy dept.
Sally
Sarah Oddo Darrow
April 3, 2014 at 4:27 pm
I saw the bunnies but didn’t pick them up when i saw them now i can’t find them anywhere
Beth
March 22, 2014 at 5:21 pm
I found the mold today at Target but it was just on an end cap with some Easter baking supplies, not really near the candy at my store. I can’t wait to make these soaps! Super cute!! 🙂
Cari
March 23, 2014 at 2:58 pm
This is adorable and so easy to make. Great idea!
Kim
March 26, 2014 at 6:50 pm
I was just in Michaels the other day and they have the “official” peeps mold for bunnies and chicks. They also carry a lot of Wilton’s items and I’m sure you could find the mold on amazon. I also like to shop local thrift stores for interestingly shaped things to use as molds. I recently got an ice cream cone mold that unscrews so that you can make the cone one color and the “ice cream” another. I am currently working on soaps for dogs, since I am starting a home based business of custom pet items.
Pat C.
March 29, 2014 at 2:55 pm
What adorable little chicks! I love the soft, pastel shades and their cute, upturned heads.♥ xoxo
Dani
April 3, 2014 at 3:53 pm
I can’t buy more but that’s sooooooooooo cute! Thanks for the GREAT ideas and for having a give away!
Sarah Oddo Darrow
April 3, 2014 at 4:26 pm
Thank you! We love these we just made them today and we are going to give these out at my daughters Preschool instead of giving the kids a ton of sugar 🙂 Thank you again!
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