Think for a moment about the number of signs you read today. Street signs, traffic signs, store awnings, product slogans....all deliver information efficiently and unfeelingly. Wouldn't it be nice to sneak in something a little more personal? Enter Fortune Cookie Soaps. The message doesn't have to be life-changing. Everyone has a favourite line from the Simpsons or knows a corny bumper-sticker saying. Collect these sayings (or movie quotations, thoughts from favourite authors, lines from poems or songs) and print them by hand or on the computer onto small strips of paper. Embed them in soap in one of two ways.

1. Follow the directions above for making Altered Soap. Instead of an image or a flower, decoupage the fortune onto the soap and coat with paraffin.

2. Make your own glycerin soap. Kits can be purchased at craft or specialty soap-making stores. Fill the mold tray with 1/4" layer of melted glycerin, then place your fortune on top of that layer. Do not move it around, or the soap will become cloudy. Top off the mold.