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Plumeria

General info

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  • Can be used as soap for bathing or washing
  • Can be arranged with plumeria bowl (see Plumeria Bowl tutorial)
  • Two sizes (these instructions cover on how to make big plumeria flower)
  • Difficulty: Easy

What you will need

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  • Soap
  • Carving or Exacto knife
  • Paring knife
  • Yellow food coloring with water
  • Paint brush

Soap info

Home Life soap

Used in tutorial

home life soap
  • Available
  • Floral scented
  • Size: 8.5 cm (3-3/8") x 6 cm (2-3/8") x 3.3 cm (1-1/4")
  • Weight: 135 g (4.76 oz)

Instruction video

Note: Video include also the instructions on how to carve small plumeria flowers which can be carved in similar fashion.

Instructions

1. Cut your soap bar into a disc shape.
step 1
2. Mark the center of your soap.
step 2
3. Cut an inverted cone shaped hole.
step 3
4. Mark your soap into 5 parts.
step 4
5. Carve an ident for a petal.
step 5
6. Make a petal shape cut and remove the soap under it.
step 6
7. Repeat two previous steps for next four petals.
step 7
8. Remove the edges at the bottom.
step 8
9. Make an indents between petals.
step 9
10. Remove excess soap under petals.
step 10
11. Cut out the soap between petals.
step 11
12. Paint a center of the plumeria in yellow. Finished!
step 12