The best thing about making your own soap is having fun with different techniques. Once you have mastered basic soap making, its very easy to play around with different ingredients to create unique soaps. For example, embeds, which is just soap inside a soap, are very simple and effective method to make a soap a little be special. What is an embed? An embed is just soap that you put into your soap batter before it sets, to create different shapes and colours within your soap. You can buy special moulds to make small soaps for embeds - for example stars or hearts. Some mould are long and thin to make one continuous embed (that you can cut into small pieces if required) and others are more like ice-cube trays to make several smaller individual embeds (which you can place end-to-end in a loaf soap if you want a continuous embed. You can also just cut finished soap bars into different shapes - long and thin, chopped up confetti or even t...