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[newbie]

Thankfully, there is room in the soap world for every kind of soap, from the simplest to the most complex.

Love this drop swirl.

 

[newbie]

I thought you guys might find this post interesting. THe soap she made is much like one of the Remy soaps people were discussing. If you translate her post, she says she creates this look by pouring one color down the wall on one side of the mold, then pours the next color down the wall of the opposite side, and then alternates until the mold is full.

http://www.saponeta.com/2015/01/teebaum-rosmarin-und-bergamotte.html?m=1

 

[TVivian]

I thought you guys might find this post interesting. THe soap she made is much like one of the Remy soaps people were discussing. If you translate her post, she says she creates this look by pouring one color down the wall on one side of the mold, then pours the next color down the wall of the opposite side, and then alternates until the mold is full.



http://www.saponeta.com/2015/01/teebaum-rosmarin-und-bergamotte.html?m=1

Ahh! That's interesting.. So many ways to pour that never even occurred to me!

 

[MorpheusPA]

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

There's nothing wrong with that. I like a nice swirl. I like a nice color.

But y'know what? If it were a choice between a nicely colored, swirled soap that worked like store bought, or using an off-white home-made bar that works like mine do, I'd use the off-white and like it.

Fortunately, there's room for both plain soap and a nice swirl and everybody can be happy. :razz:

 

[navigator9]

I thought you guys might find this post interesting. THe soap she made is much like one of the Remy soaps people were discussing. If you translate her post, she says she creates this look by pouring one color down the wall on one side of the mold, then pours the next color down the wall of the opposite side, and then alternates until the mold is full.

http://www.saponeta.com/2015/01/teebaum-rosmarin-und-bergamotte.html?m=1

OMG, did you see these on the same site?
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bC-oHN2es8c/VL42DO4BdbI/AAAAAAAACJs/pu9Q52j6nR8/s1600/tani6.jpg

 

[kumudini]

There's nothing wrong with that. I like a nice swirl. I like a nice color.

But y'know what? If it were a choice between a nicely colored, swirled soap that worked like store bought, or using an off-white home-made bar that works like mine do, I'd use the off-white and like it.

Fortunately, there's room for both plain soap and a nice swirl and everybody can be happy. :razz:

Ofcourse Morpheus, a pretty thing is a pretty thing. I like swirls, so much that I watched a ton of you tube videos on that subject. But I was talking about these very expressive soap art, like the nature scapes of last great cakes challange or the crop circles and the orange slices that were referred to here, I enjoyed seeing them but if I were to get me one of those soaps, even with an intention to use, it would end up being a deco piece in my house, I wouldn't want to ruin it. I wonder how many of us here would unwrap such a soap and say let me try it in the shower or at the sink.
I just caught the soaping bug, who knows when I might catch the next one and end up selling 'soap art'. All the pictures newbie and others post here, they r on to something with me, I keep coming back to this thread,lol

 

[newbie]

These are Steso's soaps. SHe sent these soaps to the person who is showing them on her blog.She has the rim thing down. These rims look like M&P but I've seen a few of them that look like CP for the rim, just from the swirl pattern. SHe must swirl and then slice with a wire, getting a 1/4 inch or so piece while it's still fairly fresh and flexible and then roll it into cylinder and fill it. Pretty cool.

Believe it or not, my recipe is very good to skin and way better than store-bought AND it can be pretty at the same time. You don't need to compromise your soap in order to color/swirl it. White, plain, fancy, colored, formed, embedded- any way it comes out of the mold, the recipe is the same and a good one is still a good one. At any rate, this is just a thread for people who like to look at different techniques, not necessarily to debate the merits of plain versus swirled.

 

[newbie]

I like the orange in combo with this blue and black. I've seen a number of these with "stir sticks" in them. From a design perspective, they can be interesting, but how do you wrap them? I'd chop them off though, as soon as I wanted to use it.

 

[Saponista]

Yeah I think they look nice too, but practicality wins for soap with me so I would never buy one. I have seen them half wrapped in wax paper with the top sticking out, but I live in a humid environment and unwrapped soap gets all moist and sticky so I don't think it's the best way to go. You could maybe shrink wrap over it?

 

[kumudini]

Believe it or not, my recipe is very good to skin and way better than store-bought AND it can be pretty at the same time. You don't need to compromise your soap in order to color/swirl it. White, plain, fancy, colored, formed, embedded- any way it comes out of the mold, the recipe is the same and a good one is still a good one. At any rate, this is just a thread for people who like to look at different techniques, not necessarily to debate the merits of plain versus swirled.

Oh newbie, please don't get me wrong. I wasn't trying to hijack this thread, nor did I ever say these pretty looking soaps are bad for skin, just that I would be unwilling to spoil their beauty by using them. Since all the pretty pictures are on this thread I thought this is where my post belonged. I wouldn't call anything inferior or superior until I have actually used it and liked it better or worse than something else and then it would still be my opinion not a generalization.
Thank you for starting this thread and uploading all these beautiful pictures. I do like to try and guess how that pretty picture came to be, if u could tell from my previous posts on this thread. This thread has been providing loads of inspiration for people who like to make beautiful designs.

 

[TVivian]

OMG, did you see these on the same site?
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bC-oHN2es8c/VL42DO4BdbI/AAAAAAAACJs/pu9Q52j6nR8/s1600/tani6.jpg

Woah that chevron one is crazy!!


I have a silicone mat for cake making.. I'll bet M&P poured into each section, would create a look like that.

 

[TVivian]

http://pinterest.com/pin/A44nAAAQQA0Cra7IyrUAAAA/


I love these.

 

[Dorymae]

Woah that chevron one is crazy!!

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I have a silicone mat for cake making.. I'll bet M&P poured into each section, would create a look like that.

I want that! Where did you find that if you don't mind my asking.

 

[TVivian]

I want that! Where did you find that if you don't mind my asking.

Not at all Dorymae! I bought it at my local cake supply, but here's the website on the mat. MarvelousMolds.com

 

[newbie]

I was wondering how she managed that pattern! I will have to have a look at those mats too. Thanks for posting the link.

Wow, they are pretty pricey, especially for something 6.5 x 4 inches long. But if you caught a sale...

 

[TVivian]

I was wondering how she managed that pattern! I will have to have a look at those mats too. Thanks for posting the link.

Wow, they are pretty pricey, especially for something 6.5 x 4 inches long. But if you caught a sale...

Yup .. Very pricey for soap, but for the time it saves me on my cake business its a bargain! Especially with how popular chevron is these days luckily a lot of cake/soap tools are interchangeable.

 

[TVivian]

Came across this one on Instagram tonight.
http://instagram.com/p/0xqSotKIVa/

 

[newbie]

That is very similar to the ones I posted last week. The multiple tilted tiger swirl seems popular with Eastern Europeans! I wonder what fragrances they use; they must have a long long time open.

 

[TVivian]

Oh I'll have to scroll back.. I think I missed those. Yeah.. I'm pretty awed by the time that took. My recipe would have been thick as a brick by the center point

 

[newbie]

#351. I don't mean to imply "we already saw that" but rather that considering I have never seen one like that before now, it seems funny that I've now seen two, one by a russian woman and this one by a woman with an eastern European-like name. Makes me wonder what else they are making there that we haven't seen! I've googled russian soap but only got a few hits.