an idea for this method ???

[newbie]

Tried again last night. Scented with vetiver and sandalwood. I brought it to what I thought was about the consistency of heavy cream- it was just getting that waxy look on the top. I poured the black and the white separately but at the same time and kept pouring them over and around each other, then I took my thicker L tool and swirled a little. I'm not certain if my black was just not black enough or if the two mixed too much and that's why the black looks more gray. Either way, it looks like either I swirled too much or the soap needs to be thicker than heavy cream. Darn! Have to make more soap.

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[Dragonkaz]

Looks lovely ... but any excuse to keep practising has gotta be a great one!

 

[ewenique]

The swirls are all pretty, if you ask me!

 

[newbie]

Thanks! Just so you know, I wasn't complaining. I think the swirls came out interesting and pretty too- trust me when I say that I'm extremely pleased when anything I make looks even somewhat presentable. I would like to be able to figure how that original soap, aka THE SOAP, was made because the swirls are so distinct and the pattern isn't typical, especially the part where the black and white wrap around each other. REally, it's a great excuse to have make yet another batch that I don't had a dedicated use for!

 

[newbie]

Hey Cyso, have you made any more attempts?

 

[busymakinsoap!]

are you sure its not an ITP swirl? I think if you split the colour added it back to one pot folded it in and poored slowly at a light/med trace layering it ontop of itself you might get this result?? Just a guess, but I might give it a try when my supplies arrive

 

[newbie]

Yes, I'm thinking the trick is in the pour. I tried again last night and poured it separately at a consistency thicker that cream and swirled a little, but I still get an effect little different from a standard swirl. Your idea of having the colors together and pouring slowly at a medium trace seems to be where I'm going, too, after three tries. I wonder if this person used a vertical mold and then poured in from the top at a thicker trace, letting the soap fold on itself as it went in, as it would if it were fairly thick. Alas, I have no vertical mold, but I might try again with a round mold- an old lye bottle that will be vertical, but round. If you try, Busy, please post some pictures!

 

[cyso]

here's a new test with two colors with a very thin trace :


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[newbie]

I like that! However, it still doesn't have the sharpness in contrast to THE SOAP. Isn't it killing you to figure out?! I do think the trace must be thicker- like medium trace to prevent that slight blurring of colors that comes with thinner trace. Hmmmmmm. I'll have to try a small batch in a vertical mold with med trace and see how that idea pans out.

I do think you soap is so pretty, Cyso! Kind of sunset-like. I hope you didn't take my comments as saying it wasn't nice.

 

[cyso]

Don't worry Newbie, it's a pleasure for me to create or to discover how to obtain this marvelous black and white soap !!! the only think I know is that it's obtained without using the one pot method and a dividor.
I suppose that, like you, we don't have to make it with a too thin trace to prevent from mixed colors.
I would be very interested in discovering the result with your vertical mold !!!
I suffer from a lack of time but I'm sure I'll try again, it's a goal for me this type of soap, just to practice !!!

 

[newbie]

Aha!

Someone just posted this link to youtube for a tutorial on spoon swirling. I would bet this is the same method used for this soap!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3R14Mdix8E"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3R14Mdix8E[/ame]

 

[Relle]

I'd be happy with that.

 

[law]

Please excuse the question, but I'm new, and I love swirls. Is it ok to use a wire hanger in newly made soap? The plastic hangers are so big, I wouldn't think they would make fine swirls. I was thinking maybe a wire tie, one of the long, thin, flexible ones?

Anyway, the real question for me is wire hanger and new soap? very bad or OK?

Thanks!

 

[soapbuddy]

I don't use a coat hanger. I use a thin bamboo skewer.

 

[JackiK]

I watched the video tutorial. It's a very interesting technique, and I love the outcome. However, since the soap is at such a thin trace, I think I'd employ a turkey baster instead of all of that spooning. Call me lazy :roll:

 

[newbie]

Jacki, I was thinking the same thing- well, not about the turkey baster, but at least about a ladle. The patience it must have taken to use a tiny teaspoon! Don't have it in me.

To law (sp? I'm drawing from memory- patchy at best), I have used a plastic-coated wire hanger with some regularity. I always rinse it off right away and keep the plastic intact. Lye will react with metals (except stainless), but I don't know if swirling quickly with an uncoated wire hanger would affect the soap in any way. It would probably affect the hanger a lot more. Anyone?