Making Soap Boxes at Home
The use of soap dates back to many centuries. Before the soap was invented and became widely used the Roman aristocrats used olive oil for clines and hygiene. Olive oils something that is exceptionally well suited for skin care and an expensive alternative to soap. The invention of soap made it possible for the unprivileged people to gain cleanliness and hygiene conveniently.
Soaps are crafted in to many shapes and size. There are several companies that are straining their every nerve to come up with packaging that can increase the sales of their soap and soap like products like hair shampoos and conditioners. The soap bars in beautiful packaging are quite affordable these days. But, just for fun we will make some soap boxes.
These will be simple soap boxes made of paper so we need only the following two things.
- Papers
- Scissors
Method to Make Soap Boxes
- Make a size 8 inch square on the piece of paper.
- You need to cut out the shape of the box from the white paper.
- Fold the paper in to the half and then press the seams. Open up the paper and draw a line in the middle.
- Turn the 90 degree paper and fold it in half. Press the seam once more and unfold the paper to get another line.
- You have a square shaped paper with one side pointing upwards.
- Fold all the corners of the paper towards the center of it and press the seams.
- Fold the left and the right sides of the paper towards the center and gently apply the pressure on the seams.
- Fold the bottom and the top edges towards the middle and apply the pressure to the seam.
- Open the whole paper up and fold it into a diamond shape.
- Grab the left and the right corners of the paper and fold them towards the middle.
- Carefully bend the corners of a side and upwards and form a flap.
- At the end, fold the top of the flap and put the top of the flap in to the base of the box.
- Your soap box is ready.
This method will easily allow you to make soap boxes at home. Make use of these instructions to come up with best results. Alternatively, you can get soap boxes from PackagingBlue.com.
