Browsing soap pics

[newbie]

Elegant.

 

[not_ally]

Newbie, just wanted to says thanks for creating/continuing to post on this thread. I always look at your posts here for inspiration. Don't often comment because it would be the same "ooh/ah" one all the time, but I love looking them at them and getting ideas. That hopefully I will be good enough to attempt in the distant, distant future ....

 

[Judiraz]

Newbie, That one looks like a heron taking flight. Lovely.

 

[galaxyMLP]

Newbie, just wanted to says thanks for creating/continuing to post on this thread. I always look at your posts here for inspiration. Don't often comment because it would be the same "ooh/ah" one all the time, but I love looking them at them and getting ideas. That hopefully I will be good enough to attempt in the distant, distant future ....

I feel the same way, not ally. I always come over here and take a look. I also love that newbies taste is so varied. I see simple and very ornate soaps posted in this thread. I also like when other people (I'm looking at you Sonya!) join in. I also want to participate but I'm pretty sure all the soaps I see have already been posted here!

There are always great discussions going and fantastic inspiration!

 

[newbie]

It is completely my pleasure!!! I'm glad people enjoy coming to look and see what's out and about in the soap world. Considering there are probably a million soapers in the world, I like to try to find as many different people whose soap I can put up and as many different types of patterns and colors and ideas. Also, it's a personal challenge to find as many different soaps as possible to put up without repeating; it seems like I should be able to do this for years but the key is finding places where people who don't sell, put up pics of their soaps. Business sites are easier to find but there is so very much variety out there, thankfully, for everyone to take inspiration.

 

[newbie]

Feel free to call me out as a big hypocrite because I just posted that I want to put as many different soap makers' soaps as possible on here. Certainly have posted Ramy's soap in this thread but this must go up. If I ever cut into a soap and found something like this, I swear to god I would die on the spot, and what a way to go!

Reminds a bit of this art nouveau pattern I found.

 

[TeresaT]

That print is fabulous!

 

[navigator9]

And a beauty in black and white.

Hey, wait a minute.....as I'm looking at this pic.....do I see a little bit of a fishnet thing going on there? Does anyone else see it? I also should have said that this is by Tatsiana Serko, the talented soaper who made the round soap with the beautiful "rind" that I had posted.

 

[newbie]

Yes, I thought of that soap when the fishnet was posted (I put that soap of Tatsiana's up around page 35 or so :wink. Can't tell if it's got the pattern on all sides of the soap, but my guess is no. I sent her a message about the fishnet, asking if she could take a guess at how it was done, but I never heard back from her.

Today's beauty:

 

[newbie]

Holy detail work, Batman!

 

[jules92207]

Whoa.

 

[newbie]

Oooooo, that's a good ombre. And I like the ombre idea for a gift.

 

[newbie]

Okay, if you want to see some drop-dead beautiful arrangements and pictures of flowers, read a blog, and get ideas for color combos, go here: http://saipua.blogspot.com/

 

[Saponomancer]

I absolutely love this thread, so many beautiful soaps

 

[Sonya-m]

That ombré is gorgeous - do you think colours that bleed were used to avoid stripes

 

[newbie]

I don't think you could get that kind of smooth gradient without bleeding colors.

Since I'm on....

 

[navigator9]

Yes, I thought of that soap when the fishnet was posted (I put that soap of Tatsiana's up around page 35 or so :wink. Can't tell if it's got the pattern on all sides of the soap, but my guess is no. I sent her a message about the fishnet, asking if she could take a guess at how it was done, but I never heard back from her.


Today's beauty:

Ah, I must have missed this one first time around. So, since this one is obviously poured, since you can see the layers, and resulted in at least a small area of the fishnet look, do you think it's possible that the other one is the result of a pour? I find it hard to imagine.

Okay, if you want to see some drop-dead beautiful arrangements and pictures of flowers, read a blog, and get ideas for color combos, go here: http://saipua.blogspot.com/

I'm very familiar with the saipua blog. My initial interest was their soap, and then I discovered their flowers.....the most beautiful floral arrangements I've ever seen.

 

[lenarenee]

That ombré is gorgeous - do you think colours that bleed were used to avoid stripes

That's what I'm wondering, or maybe a blurry setting on the camera! Absolutely wonderful shades of blue.

 

[soapmage]

Here's one from a fellow soaper in a Facebook group whose name I can't recall (maybe she's here?!?) Living on the coast, this one just spoke to me. The cool blues are so calming and the embeds are downright adorable and nautical!

 

[newbie]

Until someone can replicate a fishnetty look, I've defaulted to the wrap theory. I tried a fluid pour with squeeze bottles but the lower layers of the soap get compressed and flattened out into circles by the upper layers. Ih that one, I tried tilting the mold so gravity might pull the soap into the more cylindrical shape but all of the bottom is thin and then without the compression, the top gets thicker shapes. The evenness of the whole thing has me perplexed. The heavy trace squeeze bottle one with fluid dark soap resulted in unevenness in the dark color and the light color comes out with too much of its own shape to make the pattern. Gah.

The saipua lady is such is go-getter and what an eye!