Recipe and tutorial: How to make shimmering cold process soap dough sprinkles using a clay extruder

We are having a bit of a rest from our Friday limited edition soap this week, as things have been hectic and we haven't had the time to create one! Instead, we are following on from Tuesday's video in which we created soap dough and we are showing you how to colour that soap dough and use it to make soap sprinkles which you can use to decorate your soaps.
We begin by showing you how to use mica to quickly and easily colour plain white soap dough. We then move on to using a clay extruder tool to extrude thin, individual strands of soap dough, which we then allow to dry for a very short period of time before turning them into "sprinkles".
This is a very fun, eye catching way to decorate soaps and as long as you have the right tools (an extruder is essential for this) then it is also really easy too!
If you wish to use our recipe to create your soap dough, then these are the ingredients and measurements that you need to work with.
109g Sodium Hydroxide
240g Water
340g Olive Oil
99g Sweet Almond Oil
57g Castor Oil
184g Coconut Oil
75g Shea Butter
38g Cocoa Butter
1/4 tsp mica in total to colour (1/8 tsp) and dust (1/8 tsp) your sprinkles
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[@jilleenguielmo3322]

just love your personality

[@betsydeath]

I love strange spaghetti. I had it in 'Hoop' form once. What a time to be alive!

[@TheSussexHandmadeSoapCompany]

Sounds like the comments of an 80's/90's child! We had lots of things in hoop form back then - hula hoops (for dancing) hula hoops (for eating) and hoop earrings. What a time to be alive indeed :-D

[@Rayanna.a]

❤️❤️

[@andreap.6253]

A really fine and clever hack to put some more interest to the soaps, thank you for inspiring and of course for sharing. Thanks from Austria Andrea

[@TheSussexHandmadeSoapCompany]

Thank you Andrea and greetings to you in Austria from us in the UK!

[@sonjacohn2303]

These are so cute! I would love to dive into doing these things one of these days! Thank you both! Have a great weekend!

[@TheSussexHandmadeSoapCompany]

Thank you Sonja. Yes, they are so much fun to make and play with! I have a huge list of things I want to try in the future too - just need to find the time! :-)

[@lyndawest8612]

Thanks!

[@TheSussexHandmadeSoapCompany]

Thank you so much Lynda, we really appreciate your support of our channel :-)

[@patriciahenry-ellis5288]

Love this very informative I am from the Caribbean this is beautiful

[@monicahatch6498]

Very creative and great to see you both working the soap dough together!

[@TheSussexHandmadeSoapCompany]

Thank you. I think Wayne enjoyed the soap dough, he spent quite a while creating various different things out of it!

[@jadegirl5150]

This is brilliant!! Thank you for this video.

[@TheSussexHandmadeSoapCompany]

You are welcome Irene

[@nilzagarcia6341]

Very cool!❤️

[@TheSussexHandmadeSoapCompany]

Thank you :-)

[@katarzynaderkacz39]

You made me stay late again 😎😘💙

[@TheSussexHandmadeSoapCompany]

Haha, We have a bad habit of doing that! It is easy to tell that I am more of a night Owl than a morning person!

[@katarzynaderkacz39]

@@TheSussexHandmadeSoapCompany same here 🦉

[@cheryl739]

You pronounced it right. F-ee-mo.. Very cute.

[@TheSussexHandmadeSoapCompany]

Thank you! I remember having disagreements with friends at school over how it was pronounced!

[@samanthastacey3136]

How would you recommend storing the sprinkles please. I used my vacuum pack machine to store the soap for a week this was great for storing air right . Thanks for your fantastic video 😀

[@TheSussexHandmadeSoapCompany]

Hi Samantha, we just store them in a ziplock bag, it seems to do the trick!

[@anacatarinaferreira5108]

Hello! Loved to see how soap dough is made! Could you please tell me if your coloring soap dough process works with clays too? Thank you.

[@TheSussexHandmadeSoapCompany]

Honestly we have never tried with clays, but on the face of it, I can't see why it wouldn't work.

[@anacatarinaferreira5108]

@@TheSussexHandmadeSoapCompany Thank you so much for your reply!

[@chedetjunior1269]

Hi... Just want to know. What if I color the dough before I put it in the plastic bag and keep it for 4 weeks? Will the result same if we compare with the dough that we color after 4 weeks that you implemented in the video above? In term of the color brightness. Thank you...

[@kayla-rae4770]

Yes said its possible to color it during the soap makin process that would be in the stick blending phase

[@raiallen-hadley9137]

I’ve been looking for the larger extruder, where did you buy yours from please?

[@TheSussexHandmadeSoapCompany]

Hi Rachel, I had a hard time finding the larger one too, most of the ones I found were the smaller ones. I actually purchased form this listing on ebay (though the price has gone up by quite a bit since I made our purchase!): www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fimo-Professional-Box-Of-1-Aluminium-Extruder-With-20-Discs-Of-Different-Patter/254511758762

[@gabrielavernarska5939]

What if my soap dough is still a bit sticky, what can I do with that? I’ve made your recipe and it’s been over 7 weeks old now. Many thanks

[@kayla-rae4770]

Im no expert but I watched a video where they used cornstarch to get rid of the stickiness. But if its sticky after 7 weeks then something probably went wrong in the soap making process.

[@gabrielavernarska5939]

@@kayla-rae4770 thank you Kayla. I did use it and it was just great. Thank you anyway

[@fa.ben-beauty1621]

can u tell me if ur soap dough is vegan? i found a lot of soap dough recipes with lard in the recipe. and this is something i don’t want. i tried out a vegan one but it never became so doughy as urs

[@TheSussexHandmadeSoapCompany]

Hello, Yes our recipe is vegan. We have listed our recipe in the video description if you would like to try it :-)