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Plumeria Bowl

General info

plumeria_bowl 1 plumeria_bowl 2 plumeria_bowl 3 plumeria_bowl 4 plumeria_bowl 5
  • Perfect room decoration!
  • You can put other things than plumeria flowers
  • Great gift for your friends and family
  • Difficulty: Easy

What you will need

supplies
  • Soap
  • Carving or Exacto knife
  • Paring knife
  • Spoon (or other scraping tool)
  • Toothpick (or other pointed tool)
  • Tweezers
  • Glue
  • 4 mm pearl beads
  • 6 cm (2.36") x 6 cm (2.36") piece of paper

Soap info

Savon de chocolat

Used in tutorial

chocolate soap
  • Available
  • Dark brown color
  • Chocolate scented
  • Diameter: 6.8 cm (2-3/4")
  • Thickness: 2.8 cm (1-1/8")
  • Weight: 80g (3 oz)

Ichigo Milk soap

ichigo milk soap
  • Available
  • Milk and strawberry scented
  • Diameter: 6.8 cm (2-3/4")
  • Thickness: 2.8 cm (1-1/8")
  • Weight: 80g (3 oz)

Maccha Milk soap

maccha milk soap
  • Available
  • Milk and green tea scented
  • Diameter: 6.8 cm (2-3/4")
  • Thickness: 2.8 cm (1-1/8")
  • Weight: 80g (3 oz)

Instruction video

Note: Video includes also instructions on how to carve monstera leaf from 2:40 to 4:16.

Instructions

1. Fold paper as shown.
step 1
2. Draw a line.
step 2
3. Cut along the line.
step 3
4. Cut your soap in half.
step 4
5. Scrape out the soap from the lower half of the soap. It should have 2-3 mm (0.08-0.12") in thickness.
step 5
6. Scrape out the soap from the upper half of the soap. It should have the same thickness as the lower half.
step 6
7. Using previously prepared template, trace the circle onto the upper half of the soap.
step 7
8. Cut out the circle.
Tip: You can use a cut round for monstera leaf carving. See this tutorial for monstera leaf.
step 8
9. Smooth the upper edge.
step 9
10. Glue the two halves of the soap.
step 10
11. Apply glue to the smoothed upper edge of the upper half.
step 11
12. Add pearl beads.
step 12
13. Flower bowl is finished!
step 13