Primal Elements Shea Butter - Moisturizing Melt and Pour Glycerin Soap Base for Crafting and Soap Making, Easy to Cut - 5 Pound
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Scent: Shea Butter
Size: 5 Pound (Pack of 1)
Features
- Solid Soap Base that can be used to mix and create various new soaps. Great new item to be added to your soap making supplies. Stock up and create a new arrangement of homemade soaps of your making.
- Simply melt, add different coloring and fragrances to the mix, and create custom soap bars at home. Place into your favorite mold to create fun new shapes soaps for the whole family to enjoy.
- The natural glycerine based Soap bases are used to create your unique style of soap for personal use. Perfectly molds and forms into any container it is poured in.
- Glycerin derived soap base. Primal Elements carries a variety of different soap bases that are clear, opaque, and colored. All paraben free and sodium lauryl sulfate free.
- Create fun soap at home and make soap making a new exciting activity for you, your family, and your friends to enjoy together. Foaming soap is available at any time made by you!
- Ingredients: Glycerin, Water, Sodium Stearate, Sorbitol, Propylene Glycol, Sodium Laurate, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sodium Chloride, Fragrance, Stearic Acid, Cocoamidopropyl Betaine, Sodium Palmitate, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Decyl Glucoside, PEG-200Lauric Acid, Sucrose, Sodium Thiosulfate, Tetrasodium Iminodisuccinate, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Disodium EDTA, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Titanium Dioxide
Description
Solid Soap Base that can be used to mix and create various unique soaps. Simply cut into chunks and melt to add various designs or scents to the mix. Wow your friends with unique soap bars that can be used on any occasion. Primal Elements has an array of white, clear, opaque, and colored soap bases. Primal Elements soap base is easily, cut, melted, and poured for an exciting DIY fun time, creating something you'll always be using. Coming in popular skin nourishing and unscented shea butter, coconut oil, honey, aloe, argan oil, and more, there are many soap bases to play with and try in your next soap making project. Paraben free and sodium lauryl sulfate free so there is no worry about using our products. Soap bases turn into great home soaps for the hand and body. Also offering soap making kits if this is your first time making soap at home. Soap perfect for bath, body, and mind is soon to come. Soap base is tested to be a non-skin irritant according to the Zein test.
Product Dimensions : 11.25 x 4.5 x 2.5 inches; 5 pounds
Item model number : SOAP BASE SHEA-5
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Manufacturer : Primal Elements
Best Sellers Rank: #12,263 in Arts, Crafts & Sewing (See Top 100 in Arts, Crafts & Sewing) #25 in Soap Making Bases & Melts
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Customer Reviews: 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (2,452)
Brand Name: Primal Elements
Age Range Description: 12- 80
Model Name: Soap Base
Art Craft Kit Type: Soap Making
UPC: 640986308310
Unit Count: 80 Ounce
Number of Packs: 1
Manufacturer: Primal Elements
Item Type Name: Soap Base
Model Number: SOAP BASE SHEA-5
Manufacturer Part Number: SOAP BASE SHEA-5
Color: White
Product Style: Custom
Item Dimensions: 11.25 x 4.5 x 2.5 inches
Item Weight: 5 pounds
Size: 5 Pound (Pack of 1)
Number of Pieces: 1
Material Type: Soap Base
Additional Features: Not Tested On Animals
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Scent: Shea Butter (Unscented)
Size: 2 Pound (Pack of 1)
**Review for Primal Elements Shea Butter Soap Base** I recently purchased the Primal Elements Shea Butter Soap Base, and it has been a delightful addition to my DIY skincare routine. Here are some of the highlights: **Hydrating Formula:** The shea butter adds a rich, moisturizing element to the soap, leaving my skin feeling soft and nourished after every use. **Easy to Work With:** This glycerin soap base melts smoothly, making it perfect for crafting homemade soaps. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced soap maker, you'll find it easy to mold and customize with your favorite additives. **Versatile and Customizable:** You can effortlessly blend in colors, fragrances, and other ingredients to create unique soap bars tailored to your preferences. **Generous Quantity:** The 2-pound block offers ample material for multiple projects, which is great for both personal use and crafting gifts for friends and family. Overall, the Primal Elements Shea Butter Soap Base is a high-quality product that delivers on both performance and value. It's a must-have for anyone interested in making their own skincare products!
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Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2026 by Araivis
Scent: Shea Butter
Size: 5 Pound (Pack of 1)
I was skeptical at first when i saw some of the reviews, but I just lost my job and so handmade Christmas presents it is. I consider myself pretty crafty but have only used melt and pour a few times in the past due to the fact it is pricey. When i came across this listing, it was less expensive than the other brands and had so-so reviews, but i am on a budget so i decided to go for it. I am so glad i did, because it is super easy to work with, literally microwave for 30 seconds, then 10 second bursts until melted. Just make sure to stir between bursts. It holds fragrance really well and lathers really nicely. I had to hold back a bar of each of the bars i made for myself. I did make some coffee ones but the grounds all sank and i added the fragrance too soon and the smell went wonky so i tossed those (totally user error), but the botanicals did really well. Most floated which gives a lovely look at the back of the bar, but a good portion stayed put throughout the bar. Exactly the look i was going for. Will for sure be buying again.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2022 by Mal
Scent: Shea Butter (Unscented)
Size: 2 Pound (Pack of 1)
I make soap for my small business Nevermore Candle House and LOVE this soap base! I didn’t want to use cold process soap because I didn’t want lye in the house with my small kids and this soap base was an amazing and safe alternative! It’s so easy to melt down and mix with fragrance and mica powder. The base holds fragrance so well and smells good even without added fragrance! It lathers well and moisturizes skin well and looks so gorgeous when poured into my soap molds. It doesn’t seem to sweat after time and has been very durable and useful. Love this base!
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Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2023 by Shannen Camp
Scent: Shea Butter
Size: 5 Pound (Pack of 1)
This soap is easy to melt and pour into molds. I add a bit of mint oil. It is a great soap for the shower. One order lasts us for a couple of years.
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2026 by Katie Freeman
Scent: Shea Butter (Unscented)
Size: 2 Pound (Pack of 1)
Excellent consistency and soft feel to the skin. The ingredients are very moisturizing.
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2026 by Andrew Marcroft
Scent: Shea Butter (Unscented)
Size: 10 Pound (Pack of 1)
I went back and forth on how I felt about this base. It's finicky- even more finicky than craft store bases I've used. For the price, I can't really complain. I won't purchase the 10lb again, but may give the 5lb a try. I liked it a lot for a creamy sugar scrub mixed with salt, sugar, AO and fragrance. It's been the biggest hit with my male testers - they LOVED it. First off it could've arrived in better condition. Part of the plastic was ripped, and the soap had small patches of transfer/discoloration, maybe from improper storage? They were only surface deep and I scraped them off, but still annoying. It was also one of the sweatiest bases I've tried right out of the package. I had to wash my hands twice while cutting it into 2.5lb blocks. I thought of returning it, but figured I'd give it a try. I hate posting the photos attached because they're some of my ugliest work, but I couldn't get this soap to work well for multiple layers until like 5lbs in, and even then, it could be better. I'd stick with two or three layers max, and probably just the shea. It layers MUCH better with itself than it does with my clear base. The pink rose soap actually "seized" toward the end, probably from being microwaved so many times. I've never had that happen with MP (or CP, knock on wood). It bubbled and was so thick it congealed. A little almond oil mostly fixed that and allowed me to finish but messed up my color and pattern scheme due to the extra time i had to take to fix it, and not wanting to risk more additives in terms of mica. Even once I fixed it, and liberal sprays of alcohol, the layers came apart and had to be glued back together. I use fragrance around 3% (1% vanilla stabilizer if needed, unnecessary in rose but used in red and white peppermint soap), and usually 1/2tsp mica per pound of base, dispersed in almond oil or 91% alcohol. I'm careful not to exceed 5% of total additives with this base. I tried white kaolin clay, but because the base is so white, it turned it gray and despite vigorous stirring and dispersing in AO first, the clay clumped up. I tried layers again, this time with half being a different brands clear base. It went well at first, but this base just doesn't like to be reheated more than two or three times max. It also scorches VERY easily. For over a pound of soap, I had to microwave two or three minutes, but after the first minute I had to take it out every 5-10 seconds to stir, or it would boil and turn rubbery. Microwaving the layers individually does work marginally better, but I much prefer weighing my mold and pouring from a large batch. It's more time consuming to color and scent 6 or 7 cups, as opposed to 2. For this base, I have switched to melting and working with each individually, but make sure you have everything weighed ahead of time. If the layer gets too cool, your next layer won't adhere well. It also developed little white chunks everytime i use it, no matter how hot or cold the base is, which I've also never had happen in MP (CP yes) - untethered shea butter maybe? I haven't noticed the chunks much in the final product, but they are annoying. It hardens rather quickly as well. Adding room temp FO nearly sets it in the pitcher, so you have to work quickly. It works okay for swirling/color blending, but I haven't tried with more than two colors due to the issues I had with the base. Now that I know it's quirks - if it stays reasonably priced, I may order 5lbs at a time for my creamy sugar scrub or simpler designs. I haven't tried whipping it, and likely won't. I don't think it would turn out well. I will say, it feels soft and lathers well. If it's not lathering, you probably scorched it on accident. It holds scent well. It takes my amazon purchased cosmetic grade mica powder well, which is nice - I can save the pricier mica for CP. I love that the base is SLS, cruelty, and paraben free, but I'm curious about the thiosulfqte. I use sodium thiosulfate in my homemade color stabilizer for vanillin containing FOs, but I wonder if that isn't necessary with this base? If that's the case, the company should add that it's vanilla stable and up to what percentage - that's a huge selling point for serious soap makers, and would save a bit of money on color stabilizers, even if my homemade one is pretty cheap. Overall , at its current price under $4/lb. it's a decent product if you know what to expect. I'll use the remaining portion for scrubs and single color soaps, and end up giving most of the layered ones away or selling as "seconds."
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Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2022 by Jillian
Scent: Shea Butter (Unscented)
Size: 2 Pound (Pack of 1)
I love my soap base my second time buying and it comes in a container
Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2026 by Sonia
Scent: Shea Butter
Size: 5 Pound (Pack of 1)
This is one of my favorites to use. Cuts easily and is super simple to use.
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2026 by Tawnya Hendrix