Beginner Soap Making Starter Kit – Your First Bar

Learn to make cold process soap from scratch — with a step-by-step video course, pre-measured ingredients and a reusable loaf mold to help you get started with confidence.

Whether you’re looking for a unique gift for someone creative or you’ve always wanted to try soap making yourself, Your First Bar turns learning a new skill into a hands-on experience you can enjoy at home.

This kit combines my beginner-friendly online soap-making course with the key ingredients and tools for your first batch.

No previous soap-making experience is needed.

Give the Gift of Making Something

Your First Bar is more than a traditional gift set — it’s an experience.

The recipient gets to learn how real cold process soap is made, create a full batch of approximately 10 handmade bars, and keep both the reusable mold and course access so they can continue making soap long after their first batch.

Each kit includes a course access card with a QR code and unique redemption code, so the recipient can activate their own course access whenever they’re ready to begin.

Buying it for yourself? Great! Scan your card, gather your supplies and start learning at your own pace.

What’s Included

• Your First Bar online cold process soap-making course with lifetime access

• Reusable wooden loaf mold with silicone liner and lid

• Pre-measured olive oil, coconut oil and shea butter for your first batch

• 15 mL pure essential oil for scenting your soap

• Course access card with QR code and unique redemption code

• Downloadable course resources

• Access to The Embody Nature Studio community

Your oils are already measured specifically for the recipe used in the course, so you can spend less time worrying about calculations and more time learning the soap-making process.

Your Course Guides You Through Everything

Inside Your First Bar, I’ll walk you through the cold process soap-making process from beginning to end, including:

• understanding your soap-making ingredients

• the equipment and supplies you’ll need

• working safely with sodium hydroxide

• preparing your oils and lye solution

• understanding trace

• blending and pouring your soap

• unmolding and cutting your first bars

• curing your soap properly

• beginner tips and troubleshooting

You’ll also learn what additional supplies you need and where to find them, so you can gather everything before you begin.

The course is yours to keep, so you can return to the lessons whenever you need a refresher or are ready to make another batch.

What Will You Make?

Your kit includes enough pre-measured oils to make one loaf of traditional cold process soap, yielding approximately 10 bars.

Once cut and cured, you’ll have a full batch of handmade soap you created from scratch — along with the skills and confidence to do it again.

Your finished soap will cure for approximately 4–6 weeks before use.

More Than a One-Time Kit

The ingredients make your first batch, but the mold, course and knowledge are yours to keep.

Once you understand the process, you can continue making soap using your mold and begin exploring different essential oils, natural additives, colours and designs as your confidence grows.

Real skills. Natural ingredients. Lasting confidence.

Before You Begin

A few additional soap-making supplies are required, including sodium hydroxide (lye), distilled water and some basic equipment.

The course includes a complete supply and equipment guide and shows you exactly what you’ll need and where to source anything you don’t already have on hand.