Who doesn’t love to have great smelling soap? Encourage your residents to join to create their own soap with the scents that they love!

Here are the ingredients you’ll need for each soap bar:

• 4 cups grated cheap soap
• 2 tbsp of hand cream or body lotion (use the giveaways from motels!)
• 3 tbsp warm water
• scented oil
• food colouring
• lavender buds (if wanted)

To make the bars, combine the grated soap with water, food colouring, scented oil, and hand lotion in a bowl. The mixture will be thick, so you’ll need to combine the ingredients using your hands. First, cover your hands with hand cream to prevent sticking and to stop the food colouring from staining your skin. The soap can either be shaped freehand or you can use silicone chocolate or cupcake molds greased with hand cream to form shapes. Decorate the soap bar by putting a dried or artificial flower on top!