an idea for this method ???

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cyso

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Hello, I find this batch so marvelous, but I tried several times and never obtained these so thin white lines that traverses up and down the soap.

The only thing I know is that is not made by the one pot method, and but not with a dividor.

Have you got an idea ???

(sorry for the grammatical mistakes, because I'm French)



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it's not a swirling on the surface but through the thickness of the soap, that means that on this picture the top of this soap in the batch is at the top of this picture, difficult to explain !!! :D :D :lol: :lol:
 
Are you absolutely certain that the part facing the camera is the side of the mold? I have to say that it looks very much like the widest part, that one facing the camera, is the top of the mold and they turned this long slab bar on its side for the picture. I haven't run across any molds that are one bar wide and deep, where the short side of the bar is the top of the mold.

At any rate, it does look like they used about 50% black and 50% white and swirled it at a thin trace or before trace. You can mix the lye and oils with a whisk or stick blender until it's just mixed ( and stays mixed) but well before it has started to thicken up. THen you'd split the batch and add your colorants and mix with a whisk or spoon and then add your fragrances. Stir it in well, without using the stick blender. It should still be thin and shouldn't be at more than a thin trace (I wouldn't use a fragrance that accelerates trace for this). It looks like they poured in one color, than the other, and alternated. For swirling, you could use a straw and go all the way down to the bottom, or if you are certain that this was a higher than wide mold, you would have to look around for something you could shape into an L shape- a coat hanger, for instance. Plunge it down into the soap with the long side that you're holding right up against the side of the mold and pull it up and down and around throughout the depth of the mold, so the short side of the L is doing the swirling. It's tricky to get it emulsified enough not to separate but not stirred to trace (believe me, I've been working on it) but it can be done.

Post any pics when you've tried it! I would love to see how it works out.
 
Hello newbie !!!

Yes, I'm sure it's the good side like I explained you.
I think about a coat hunger like you !!! or some alternated thin layers of these two colors from different heights and after mixed with a straw (like marbelling)

Here are another pictures of this same soap :





Thank you for your advice !!!
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I knew what you meant!

That's a great soap. And it looks like they did something like the L shape because the streaks or swirls go from side to side of the bar. Now you have me wanting to try to duplicate this!

Remember to post pictures after you've tried it! And your english is great. I wish my french was even a tenth as good.
 
I've just tried to make THE SOAP !!! :lol: :lol: : the trace was very thin, perhaps too thin, we will see... seeing the fact that I didn't have enough black clay, I chose white clay mixed with two spoons of curcuma powder diluted in olive oil.
Here are the main stages :
at the thin trace, I overturned delicately the orange color (due to the curcuma) on the surface of a flat spoon in the mold just to put a very thin layer. After, I did the same white the basic color, then tried to do the same with the orange one and to finish I overturned the basic one.
At the end, I took for the first time a coat hanger arranged to this experience and I moved it from the top to the bottom in the mold...by making some little steps....and now, it'll be the surprise tomorrow !!!!

I'm waiting for your own experience, Newbie, OK ????

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :D
 
I can't wait to see it! I haven't been able to make soap since I saw your question, so I haven't tried it. Hopefully tomorrow or Sunday. Please post as soon as you cut it!!!
 
I just tried to make it, too. I don't know that I'll have any luck.

My first try was with clementine and patchouli, with half colored orange. It traced so fast- what the heck?!?!?- that it was in a medium to medium heavy trace by the end of the pour. I swirled it with both a coat hanger and a thicker tool I have that's about the thickness of a straw. It was so heavy I didn't think the coat hanger would do much. I don't think it will look like THE SOAP because it didn't have that nice thinness for swirling around. Crud.

The I made a batch with May Flowers. No stick blender, only whisk and I had added the FO to the oils. Geez, a quick stir up and it was thickening already, so I poured off for the colored part and I did get the color mixed in. I didn't think I would have time to pour over a spoon, so I poured the white from one end and the green from the other. Where they met in the middle they stopped, so then I switched sides and poured from each end and switched back and forth a few times. It was still fairly thin, so I swirled it with my straw tool. Still.....

We'll see. I hope I can cut tomorrow.
 
Well, here are some cut pics of the clementine soap that I poured a medium trace. It swirled better that I imagined it would, but it doesn't have the graceful curves and movement of the black and white soap. I wish I could get decent pics of the green and white soap, but it won't photograph well. I've found that if I can't stir it a lot, as can happen with florals that really accelerate trace, the soap will have a mottled look. And because of that, the green doesn't contrast so well and the pattern isn't as obvious.


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Oh my god, it's so beautiful Newbie !!! :wink: :wink:

For me, it's not the same result....I don't understand why, perhaps because the trace was too thin. In fact, I think that the orange colour dropped in the bottom of the mold...



 
Wow both these look great. @ Newbie - your swirls are fantastic, i cut some clemintine last night - smells fab eh? I might post some pics latter, i did an ITP swirl.
@ cyso - yours look great! I think its nice when something a little different comes out to what you had planned - often they turn out better! It has a nice effect; flames like calico said :D
 
Thanks for the compliments! I was pleased my clementine soap turned out that well- I wasn't expecting it to look like that.

Cyso, I think you have more of the flow of THE SOAP but there must be something about the pouring method to get that type of swirl, don't you think? I love your soap as it is, so I hope you aren't disappointed!! However, we must continue on our quest to figure out this technique. Medium trace seems too thick and maybe, maybe too thin isn't right either. Maybe the consistency/thickness of heavy cream is about right. See, now we have to make more soap!

Busy, whose clementine FO do you have? I got some from Southern Soapers and it smells so much like it has vanilla in it OOB but it's not listed on their site anymore for me to look. The cut soap smells wonderful. Post pics of yours!
 
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