Marr, I guess that Dreamsicle must be the name of the popsicle I was remembering from my childhood. (?) I'll check out that site later, after I've registered and created an account. However, I don't consider the browning all that objectionable. (I might want non-browning in the future.) It was my cognitive leap that I could use the browning as an asset by incorporating it into a kind of marble swirl. I heed your warning that the browned vanilla might bleed into the white. Good point. That would ruin my intended effect.
La O', glad you're interested too, maybe we can work out the idea together. I doubt the titanium oxide would help matters. If you have brown then no matter how much white pigment you mix in you'll never get white, only lighter shades of brown. Rather than even fighting it, my idea is to intentionally go for a brown swirled into white, kind of a marbled look, maybe like marbled marzipan? I wonder if you like my brown-white swirl idea enough to do that yourself?
HRS, here's your image. (Hit the Img button, copy and paste your image's URL, hit the Img button a second time to close it.)
Yeah I see what you mean, looks good but I think you intended to have the orange and white separate and it looks like your orange bled into the white turning it into light orange. That's the kind of marbeling effect I want though, although like you I was hoping for near white in the part without the orange or brown bleeding in.
I wonder if you or anybody can tell me about the safety aspects of FO compared to EO. Is it that the FOs have synthetic scents infused into a carrier oil. Are those scents completely safe?
And hi to CG, no problem jumping in!
Well in any case I don't have to stick with the original white-brown swirl and two separate EOs, but I might, or might not. There's something from my cooking experience I can't quite put my finger on, remembering vanilla and remembering a brown color, some type of desert. Ohhhhh!!! Just remembered! The brown comes from caramelized sugar, combined with some desert that has vanilla in it. That's why I associate vanilla and brown and don't object to the combination.
I know it sounds kind of silly to have orange scent but no orange color. I've never been good at folowing rules.
So my questions are:
1. Are FOs safe and particularly are they safe for retail sale? I won't know if somebody is going to use my soap on a baby and I don't want to have to put some kind of warning on the label unless there's no other way.
2. How do I keep my separate colors from bleeding and spoiling the marble?
3. Any additional thoughts on whether it's better to use an orange-vanilla combination, or just split the batch and use a separate scent along with the separate color treatment?
4. Do I have the right idea to pour the first color in the mold, then pour the second color layer on top of that, and then just take a stick or a rubber spatula and swirl it until the right effect is achieved?
