Wet Felted Soap Tutorial

This video will teach you the delightful art of felting soap! Visit dirtydandelionsoap.com to order felted soap kits, all natural soap, and Wooly Washers. What Is Felted Soap? Why Use It Felted soap originated many centuries ago as a way to significantly extend the life of a bar of soap and prevent it from slipping through your fingers.  Felted soap is a convenient soap and washcloth in one, however, wool is a more gentle exfoliant than a washcloth, and is appropriate to for use on hands, face, or body.  As wool is also antimicrobial and biodegradable, it can be reused and last for years, then composted in your garden. At Dirty Dandelion Soap, we call our felted soaps Wooly Washers Each soap is wet-felted by hand for 20-30 minutes each. The process involves wrapping our artisanal soap in soft, 100% wool roving, then slowly agitating the soap + wool bundle in hot and cold water until the fibers become entwined and form a cohesive textile (felt) around the soap. Designs can then be meticulously needle-felted onto the surface. Depending on the complexity of the design, the needle felting process may take multiple hours to complete, making each beautiful Wooly Washer a unique piece of functional art. Wooly Washer Felted Soaps are thoughtful gifts, excellent for those with limited dexterity, and have been known to entice children into enjoying bath-time; they are also excellent for traveling or camping as you the soap will not become slimy in your bag. How to Use Felted Soap? Wet soap and squeeze until suds emerge through the wool, then scrub away. As the soap shrinks, so too will the wool, similar to a sweater in the wash. Just like any other soap, allowing your Wooly Washer to dry between uses is best practice. Each purchase of a Wooly Washer includes a complimentary hardwood soap dish for this purpose. When the soap is gone, make a slit down the side of the felt and slide in a new (smaller) bar-you may wish to fill the wool pouch with soap slivers from partially used bars. Alternatively, continue to use the felt as a washcloth, or fill with wool and use as a dryer ball, a cat toy, or an ornament. You may also choose to fill your pouch with potpourri and place it in your closet or sock drawer--the possibilities for re-use are many! To maintain the softness of the wool, consider adding a drop of lanolin to the felt with each new bar.