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[lionprincess00]

Love this!
Link
http://www.seifentreff.de/galerie/eiskonigin-t23710.html?sid=0c84217ef81e2a1577bfdb1183dd4d45

 

[Saponista]

Is that a hanger swirl?

 

[lionprincess00]

Yes, with a gold mica line on top before the hanger was used. Very pretty

 

[TVivian]

http://pinterest.com/pin/A5sYYQAQAPUAL7ZFBp4AAAA/

I like the swirls in, and placement of these embeds.

I was hoping the picture would post! I'm wondering what's the best way to get that line around the embed? Do they roll it in mica or cocoa before embedding?.. I've tried it once and it didn't work so well.

 

[TVivian]

Goes with the link above.

 

[lionprincess00]

Rolling in cocoa would work I'm almost certain.

 

[newbie]

I've found a bunch of pictures of embeds that are lined. I have to assume they coated the embed in a mica or ac or whatever colorant before they placed it in the soap.It seems the only way you could get the lined look no matter where you cut your soap. What didn't go well when you did it?

 

[TVivian]

Well I used TD because I was trying to get a white line around the embed.. So I sunk the embed down into the soap and as I poured the rest on top it migrated off of the embed and into the wet soap. I'll have to try it again with something darker. Maybe roll it in the mica and then spray it with alcohol so it stays put.

 

[houseofwool]

Ah, but how on earth would you make the one on this page that's labeled Modulo 15. http://www.cursodejabon.com/contenido/ Rodeles 5 embudos translates to "rodeles 5 funnels", so we know that 5 funnels are used......but how????????? I would almost pay for the whole course just for these two techniques.....almost.

I think they used the bottom of a soda bottle with holes drilled in it.

 

[Luv2Soap]

I think this is the blog. If you go back you'll see tons of images of making soap - looks like classes. Maybe the answer is somewhere in here? http://www.jabonesramy.com/

 

[lionprincess00]

Soda bottles are aluminum, no? Can't use sodium hydroxide with aluminum.

I've contemplated buying two sized pvc pipes. One inside the other. Pour the ring on the outer portion, then the inside circle in the main pvc. pull both out.

Now you have a thick ring around a circle.

Not sure if or how this works, but I've been brainstorming it.

 

[lillybella]

I love Auntie Clara's soaps - especially this one!

Is this how Auntie Clara's rings (#391) are done with pvc pipes one inside of another?

 

[newbie]

I think it's done like this, Lilly. DIfferent arrangement of tubes but same idea. She achieves the halos by using different water amounts in the batter. There is link posted that is for her blog post about the use of different water discounts giving certain effects.

I think this is the same concept the Remy uses in some of the 5 funnels. There is an ITP swirl around some of the 5 spots of color which means he's putting the columns into another soap base. Some of the other 5 funnels do look like he is pouring perhaps from something like the bottom of a 2 liter pop bottle because of the way the spots of color come together.

 

[lionprincess00]

See newbies. Auntie Clara does use different water discounts to create halos. I was referring to trying to make a stripe of different color, say green, on a circle, say purple. I was brainstorming, but what I was thinking is totally different than claras. She used 1:1.5 and 1:2 or something higher maybe, as water discounts to see those halos. If you back up to my link on this thread, several pages back, I linked to the exact blog post you're thinking of and newbie showed just now. You can Google auntie Clara crop circles and reach the page as well.

I now, from her experiments, do a 40% lye discount or 1:1.5 lye to water and no longer have to worry about ash. Yea!

 

[houseofwool]

Soda bottles are aluminum, no? Can't use sodium hydroxide with aluminum.

I've contemplated buying two sized pvc pipes. One inside the other. Pour the ring on the outer portion, then the inside circle in the main pvc. pull both out.

Now you have a thick ring around a circle.

Not sure if or how this works, but I've been brainstorming it.

No, not a can, but a plastic bottle, like the bottom of a 2 liter which is already separated into "lobes".

 

[lionprincess00]

Lololol.
Ohh....
That makes much more sense.

I feel silly now!!

 

[newbie]

One way to get striped embeds, and I likes this slight twist on the honeycomb top that people put on their soaps sometimes.

 

[navigator9]

I think they used the bottom of a soda bottle with holes drilled in it.

Now that's an interesting idea.....make holes in each of the "lobes" of the bottle and pour the soap batter into the top. I wonder if that would work??? Seems like it just might.

 

[kumudini]

I think the soda bottle explanation is somewhat of oversimplification of the process, and it definitely wouldn't work to get those columns the entire length of soap. One would have to put the bottle with the holes drilled in the center of mold and pour soap around. And once you start to pour in the soda bottle, you will have to lift it up so the soap starts to get down in the mold, forming columns one would hope, but everything is going to just form a giant round and may be leak some into the surrounding soap. If you just want to decorate the top, that might work.
I think I would go with 5 diff size pvc pipes, insides rinsed in mineral oil and set in side the mold, the bright orange goes in the pipe and the IPSed batter outside, may be with diff water discounts in the batter to get the halo effect. Pipes come out after the soap starts to get thick. Ok, may be the mineral oil is not such a good idea as whatever is left behind might pose adhesion issues. May be there's another way to get the clean edges.

 

[kumudini]

Btw, I see all these soap pictures and go, I wouldn't want a piece of art for my soap, I just want a good soap that wont leave my skin dry. That's just me, I might try the art myself at some point for the fun, but I see myself mostly sticking plain janes or to additives that do more than just color my soap. I would love to improve my cutting skills though