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Make up a whole bunch of black soap balls. Make up a batch of soap batter, pour it in the mold right at trace. Drop the black soap balls in the mold at varying heights.
The soap would be scented in either NGC's Pooch Smooch or Flowering Dogwood ;)
 
So here was my attempt at Dalmation soap

Seriously, if I had said to myself, "Hey Daryl, Let's screw up a batch of soap." I couldn't have done any worse. Next time you think to yourself at 10 pm after a long day your real job, "Let's make soap," just drink the lye instead. It'll be more productive. First I screwed up the lye by taking a shortcut and pouring the water into it...I know...I know. Hey kids at home, don't do that. Now I have bars that I am literally afraid to use because they probably have lye crystals in them just waiting to dissolve on my skin in the shower. The black soap turned out to be more gray, and the pouring method through the squeeze bottle didn't allow the soap to be heavy enough to adequately penetrate the white layer. I should turn in my scale :-(

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Y'all are really sweet. I KNEW it was too late to start, but we're going to Phoenix this weekend for 5 days, and I wanted to get it curing. Just think, some poor coconut paid the ultimate price, so I could put it's oil in this toxic waste dump. It's like Vietnam all over again. Make soap, not war, man!
 
I would be tempted to add a few red balls or red soap curls (to look like collars) to give it a touch of color.
 
I know this doesn't help now, but I just remembered something else that you can do for polka dots instead of soap balls.
After you pour the white batter in, place straws all through out the soap. Then once it hardens up, take the straws out & use a squeeze bottle (cut part of the tip off first to widen it) and squeeze black soap into the holes.
 
I know this doesn't help now, but I just remembered something else that you can do for polka dots instead of soap balls.
After you pour the white batter in, place straws all through out the soap. Then once it hardens up, take the straws out & use a squeeze bottle (cut part of the tip off first to widen it) and squeeze black soap into the holes.

I wonder what would happen if you used a turkey baster to squeeze blobs of black soap directly into the white soap batter? I am a total newb but I do have an imagination! In my brain, it would work.
 
Seriously, if I had said to myself, "Hey Daryl, Let's screw up a batch of soap." I couldn't have done any worse. Next time you think to yourself at 10 pm after a long day your real job, "Let's make soap," just drink the lye instead. It'll be more productive. First I screwed up the lye by taking a shortcut and pouring the water into it...I know...I know. Hey kids at home, don't do that. Now I have bars that I am literally afraid to use because they probably have lye crystals in them just waiting to dissolve on my skin in the shower. The black soap turned out to be more gray, and the pouring method through the squeeze bottle didn't allow the soap to be heavy enough to adequately penetrate the white layer. I should turn in my scale :-(

Should you choose to retire your scale, I know where it can be donated. You know... for a good cause. Just sayin'. ;-) Seriously, it doesn't look that bad and you can probably rebatch it. I think there's potential in a dalmatians soap, so give it another go when you're up for it.
 
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