Are you looking for a few non-candy items to put in your kids’ Easter baskets this year? It’s a perfect time to try your hand at making LUSH-style jelly soaps at home. Instead of using a pre-made mold, you can make some Easter egg jelly soaps using old plastic eggs!

Three blue egg jelly soaps on a green plate

EASTER EGG JELLY SOAPS

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO MAKE JELLY SOAP

You can use any liquid soap for this project. You can pick a soap that is already scented (in which case you won’t have to add any fragrance oils) or you can choose an unscented soap and customize it with essential oil or candy oil.

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Unflavored gelatin
Liquid soap
Plastic Easter eggs
Food coloring (optional)
Essential oil (optional)
Candy oil (optional)

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HOW TO MAKE EASTER EGG JELLY SOAP

lavender plastic easter egg on a chalkboard background

If you have kids, you probably have a few of these lying around your house somewhere. If not, you can buy a dozen for about 88 cents at Walmart or Target.

four plastic eggs with holes drilled in the bottom sitting in a bowl of uncooked rice

Before you can get to work on the soap making, you have to prep your egg molds. Use waterproof tape (like duct tape) to seal off any holes on the narrow end of the egg and the seam where the egg opens in the middle. Then use a drill, Dremel, or hammer and nail to create a hole at the center of the wide end of the egg. Then add some uncooked rick to a small bowl and nestle the eggs in, wide side up. Alternatively, if you have an empty egg carton, you can set the egg molds inside of it instead.

blue soap being poured into four plastic eggs with holes drilled in the bottom sitting in a bowl of uncooked rice

Mix up a batch of jelly soap and color it to your liking. I used food coloring to make a pretty robin’s egg blue. It is at this point that you can also add your choice of scents to the soap. I have used essential oil and candy oil in the past with good success.

four plastic eggs filled with liquid soap sitting in a bowl of uncooked rice

Carefully pour the soap mixture into the eggs. I used a frosting piping tip as a mini funnel to help me aim the soap into the molds. I was able to make 3 1/2 soap eggs with one batch of soap mixture. If I hadn’t spilled as much as I did, I might have gotten four whole eggs!