Swirling in CP Soap
Photos (not a tutorial)
Hi Friends,
Here's a couple of pics of my latest soaping adventure. It's a cold process batch made with a new recipe I haven't used before. This recipe was supposed to trace slower than my usual recipe, and things were going well until I added the fragrance blend. I wanted to practice my swirling techniques, but this turned hard really fast. So it's pretty much just a random swirl now. The scent is Strawberry Champagne, a fragrance I blended myself. It smells really nice and fresh and tangy, like strawberry soda and champagne.
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| Batch of two tone CP soap after about 36 hours |
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| The surface is highly textured because the batch traced so quickly |
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| Cutting the soap into bars |
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| Instead of the swirl I planned, it has a marbled look |
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| Painting the soap with cosmetic mica |
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| The mica gives a lovely shimmer. I like shimmer :) |
I'm going to try this recipe again using an essential oil, which should give me a good idea of whether the quick trace was due to the recipe or the fragrance. (But I'm suspecting the fragrance right now.) Hopefully the recipe is fine, because I'm in the mood for a lot of swirling and design lately. And tweaking CP recipes is really tedious work sometimes. It took me nearly a year to perfect my go-to recipe. The effort was worth it, though. that recipe is so fantastic, creamy, moisturizing, and almost invulnerable to DOS. Love that one!
I'll keep you posted on this recipe, I'm calling it Swirl.
'Til Next Time,
Rose
