Edge Coating on M&P

[mattillsley]

In the attached picture, does anyone know how the bright pink edge around 3 sides has been done?

Do they have two loaf-shaped moulds, one slightly smaller than the other?

Can anyone please help? Thanks in advance.

 

[dieSpinne]

If I had to guess, I would say they did a thin layer of the bright pink, then they did a thicker layer of the hot pink and created the hot pink curls.
Then added the bright pink inner pour.

 

[mattillsley]

Thanks for the reply but I don't understand.

I'm assuming they are using a loaf mould which they are slicing vertically into individual bars. If so, the way the bar looks now must be the other way round when it's being made, i.e. the top is the bottom.

To my eye though the hot pink top and sides look as if they've been poured in one go, hence my query, as I can't figure out how that's been done (if it has been done that way).

 

[dieSpinne]

Have you ever made hollow chocolate baskets?
You get the chocolate to a thick liquid state and then pour some in the mold... then you swirls the mold around (or spin it, depending on the type of mold) to get the chocolate to adhere to the sides of the mold. As the chocolate cools it becomes more cohesive and you can build up many laters.... if those layers are different kinds of chocolate(White, Dark, Milk, etc), when you break the basket you would see the layers clearly. in the cross section.

Melt and pour soap behaves much like chocolate. Melt some til it is very hot and swirl around the loaf mold. Then allow it to cool (probably under refrigeration). Spray with alcohol and add a slightly thicker Hot pink layer. Allow to cool. Now if you pop that out of the loaf you would have a hollow form that conforms to the inside of the loaf mold... with the bright pink on the outside and the hot pink on the inside. Of course to make the soap shown, you don't pop it out of the mold... you continue by spraying with alcohol again (this helps the layers bond) and fill the remainder of the space in the mold with hot pink curls and bright pink soap at pouring temperature. Allow to cool completely, turn out of the mold and slice.

HTH

 

[saltydog]

Or, perhaps you could pour a thin layer of the hot-pink in a large square silicon mold, allowed it to harden, but not all the way. (If you add a bit of liquid glycerin to it, it makes it more pliable. I've done folded soaps this way)
Then, when it was is still pliable, cut out long rectangles, and then 'line' the inside of a loaf mold with it. I would line the mold going short-ways across the loaf mold, not long ways, so that the folded soap goes up the sides.

 

[mattillsley]

Cheers Salty Dog. I think that's more likely, however...

The picture is from a commercial company, so they must be making hundreds/thousands of these. I would have thought they might have a more commercialised method of doing it but I might be wrong!

 

[saltydog]

Cheers Salty Dog. I think that's more likely, however...

The picture is from a commercial company, so they must be making hundreds/thousands of these. I would have thought they might have a more commercialised method of doing it but I might be wrong!

There may be, but I would have no idea about that. I'm strictly a kitchen soaper, lol!

 

[Sunny]

It looks like they were probably formed in a flat sheet first, and set down into the mold while still pliable, and formed to the shape of the mold - I think the thickness of the edges is too uniform to be just coated.

really pretty bar of soap!

 

[mattillsley]

I'm inclined to agree. Thanks.