Geez we love your blog! Especially me! I feel like a SuperMom again when I see my children having an absolute blast with the tons of activities I have utilized from your blog! Thank you very sincerely for sharing so much of your time and effort with us readers! You’ve helped make my childrens childhood memories, that much more special by teaching me all these things to do!!!!!! THANK YOU

I’ve heard that it can be done with any mild, white soap, Yvonne.

I don’t think it likely matters, but I normally buy the “double rolls”, so if you find your “mud” is to watery, you might have to add half or so of a second roll of tp.

“Jergens Mild Soap, Pure & Natural” worked great! Found that at the dollar store. Puffed all up in the microwave… We couldn’t stop laughing!

At the dollar store, they didn’t have Ivory so I got Jergens, and it worked great! However I don’t think this will be any help to you because the ingredients are very similar.

This project was so fun and easy every step of the way!

Yes, I believe you can use any mild soap for the ghost mud, Kat. You just can’t do the microwave experiment that I mention at the first of the post! Only Ivory will work for that because of the high air content.

It won’t keep too long, Amanda. I wrapped mine in cling wrap, and after a few days it had gone mouldy. You’d be fine for a couple of days I think.

Super, Megan! Glad your soap expanded a bit for you! Great ideas adding the bits to make snowmen with!

Will do!

Go for it! Let me know how it all turns out, Wendy. 🙂

Thanks! I am going to make it ahead of time and hope for the best…same with creating ghosts on paper. It can’t hurt to try! 🙂

I’m pretty sure we’ve played with ours the next day, Wendy, so you could probably make it up ahead. You might just have to add a bit of water to get it good and mucky again when it’s time to play with it. You could definitely try the ghost art idea. It’s fairly wet stuff though so it might make the paper very soggy. We’ve molded ours and made stars with cookie cutters, and left them in the sun to dry, but we’ve never done anything else with the clean mud when we’re finished playing with it. It doesn’t hurt to try though. 🙂

I know it has to be Ivory for the microwave experiment because Ivory is whipped with air which is why it expands when heated. For the Ghost mud though, you’re not heating it, so I would think that another brand of white soap might work. I’ve never tried it with anything other than Ivory, but you could google “clean mud” to see if others have.

Let me know if you find something fun to do with it afterwards! I’m so glad you’re finding my blog to be so inspiring. Your comment just made my day. 🙂

Perhaps we will experiment a little and post what happens. I am always excited when I find a site that is so interesting, with so many fresh ideas. I truly appreciate the remarkably prompt response to my questions. Thanks again for your hard work and kind attention.

You’re so welcome! I’m glad you liked the post. We’ve made this a few times, and it’s always a hit here. I made a big ball our of ours last time, and put it in an air tight container, and it did grow moldy, so I’m not really sure if there’s much you can do with it after. Perhaps if you leave it to air dry, it wouldn’t mold. Then maybe you could play with it in a bin of water just for fun?

Janet, I don’t know if there are any suitable substitutes. I’m fairly certain that Dove and Fels Naptha won’t work, because they are dense bars of soap. The reason that Ivory expands is because it is whipped with so much air that the bar of soap actually floats. If you can find another “unsinkable” bar of soap, I would imagine that it might work. Let me ask around in my blogging circles, and I’ll let you know if anyone knows of a substitute.

Thanks, Teresa! I’m so glad you’re finding lots of inspiration here! I’ll try to keep it coming! 🙂

Thank you, Marie. I too wish the internet/pinterest/kid blogs had been around when my own boys were little. We didn’t do anything nearly as creative as we do know. The inspiration that we have at our fingertips now is incredible!