Halloween soaps?

[kagey]

big thanks to @Ford for her insight into using Red Palm Oil.
(I had ordered it and wanted to make an orange soap without using colorants/micas.)

I, too, used 15% along with some Sunflower HO oil that had been infused with Paprika.
Also used some Sesame Oil, which had a dark color.

Split the batter into 80/20 -- and added activated charcoal to the small portion.
Blended Orange 10X, Rosemary and Patchouli -- which accelerated trace.

If I had to do again - would reduce the activated charcoal portion to an even smaller percentage (maybe 10%).
A little goes a long, long way.

 

[Zany_in_CO]

Oooo --- spooky!!! Well done!

 

[Cat&Oak]

I love that! Great Halloween soaps

 

[Ford]

do "pumps" go with a beard?? anyone tries to look up my dress. I'll slug emmm..... (nice soaps by the way)

 

[lsg]

Your soap looks great!

 

[AliOop]

Thank you for clarifying @Ford. Beard is duly noted for correct pronoun usage in the future.

 

[Zing]

I am in awe! The color proportions are perfect. Is that an in the pot swirl?

 

[TheGecko]

If I had to do again - would reduce the activated charcoal portion to an even smaller percentage (maybe 10%).
A little goes a long, long way.

Yep...took me a few tries to learn that the darker the color, the less you need.

I've been wanting to get some Red Palm Oil.

 

[kagey]

I am in awe! The color proportions are perfect. Is that an in the pot swirl?

ha ha... it's a kagey special!
I wanted to do a "kiss" pour using one pitcher with batter, other with black (activated charcoal) -- but I made the mistake of pouring all the EOs in the batter!
and then it caused batter to seize - yet the black portion was very thin!
I tried of over stick blend the small (black) portion of batter - with not much luck...
so I quickly poured some black in mold followed by some orange
and with each passing minute, the orange batter got firmer
so I quit trying to make a nice design and simple poured layer after layer -- hoping the black would not get squeezed out by the thick orange - at one point I was making indentations in the orange to give the black a place to live... turned out much better than I expected.
in soaping terms-- I think this is known as the "panic pour!"
but don't try this at home!

all in all - it turned out much better than my first batch where I tried to make 3 portions - one reg batter, one with honey & vanilla select FO, one with charcoal and Orange 10X and one plain (with Orange 10X) - I kiss poured this one.
I was thinking that the honey/vanilla portion would turn brown, the original batter would be orange and the charcoal version would be black... well, of mice & men... I poured them when they were too thin and got the world's best smelling (like an orange creamsicle) and worse colored soap! ha ha.
the charcoal became a dark green (army fatique-ish) and some of the orange batter lived and turned yellow? (This batch was made with Hurrican water!)

 

[Zany_in_CO]

This batch was made with Hurrican water!)

"Eye of the Hurricane" Soap? Sure looks like it to me.

 

[maryloucb]

Love it! Panic pours are my specialty!