Inspire Me - Soap Making Game

[ourwolfden]

Wow that is really pretty!!!! I want to try that now… *adds more stuff to her to do list* Can’t wait to see everyone else’s picture

I’ll have to try to get in on this once Zolveria posts her list

 

[lionprincess00]

Locked and loaded! Got myself set up and am fixing to pour my lye! Got myself 8 colors looking at me. Hoping the colors don't muddy up!

 

[KristaY]

Oooohhh.... Love it Snappyllama! I can't wait to see everyone else's creations. :clap:

 

[lionprincess00]

Pic 1 is before, pic 2 is killer partial gel. The thumb nail is pointing to a crack I was able to squeeze together...almost 100% zap free after less than 2 hrs. Gotta love 40% lye concentration and a heat pad!!

Why my pics are such terrible quality is beyond me. The photobucket app loads a blurry mess.

 

[galaxyMLP]

Both are beautiful! I love Snappys and can't wait to see yours cut LP! I hope its ok that I didn't get to my star soap this weekend! I'm gonna work on it Wednesday night!

 

[KristaY]

Looks great lionprincess! Great colors. I can't wait to see the unveiling!

I tried photo bucket but it just didn't work out for me. I use the SMF photo resizer and it works great!

 

[snappyllama]

Love the top, LP! I cannot wait to see the cut.

 

[ourwolfden]

Ahhh, pretty and sparkly. Can’t wait to see what the inside looks like.

 

[lionprincess00]

Here's a breakdown of things. I decided to do an itp swirl using celadon green as my main batter with TD and Klein blue striped vertically in the batter. I then took a chopstick and spiral swirled in the batter. See pic #1&2. I poured that in, and then drop swirled into that blue vibrance, teal, and see green, pic #3. I used Vallarta blue for my my mica line, and used sky blue blended with a little TD for the top. I saw that I really didn't have enough batter left over so I did plop on about four spots of some of the drop swirled colors to try to give it a little more height (instructions were a solid color, so sorry bout that!), and then I sprinkled snowflake sparkle mica on top and took a spoon and rolled it over kind of like you would fold egg whites in. I wanted the feel of sky sparkling in the sun.

So here's the deal, I knew that this fragrance discolored, and it's strange because it sometimes does discolor and sometimes doesn't. What I discovered is that when you gel it and it heats up, it severely discolors this tan pinkish color, turning things a purple hue...which I find really interesting but if you're not prepared for it, it does hinder things.

So as you can see in the pictures of the little rounds that I made with extra batter of the original colors, it's all very pretty, and they did not gel. But the four main bars did gel and turn this purply hue.

I found it nice that the turquoise drop swirls have this purple outline around it, and it looks as though I actually outlined it which I thought was interesting. All in all I think this would have been better in my tolall skinny mold, but I really didn't have the supplies to make 12 bars for this challenge. I think you would have seen the in the pot swirl base a lot better with the dark Kline blue against the td had I had more height, but all in all this is a really neat challenge and I'm really pleased with the way things turned out. I am quite disappointed with all the air pockets but it is what it is. Now I know for a fact silver mountain water gelled discolors a ton, but ungelled, not so much.

These are before and after. I think I'd love to try this again, in the ts mold without a discoloring fo and see the results!

I'm having issues uploading pics (again!)...so I'll try, yet again, in a second.

 

[lionprincess00]

So its gone even darker the last hr. I think i want to do it again...or maybe I'll just take up the challenge again with a well behaved fo

 

[ourwolfden]

Very cool, too bad it discolored on you!

 

[lionprincess00]

Ive had it discolor, but not nearly this bad!

 

[snappyllama]

Your swirls and colors were so pretty.

 

[galaxyMLP]

It was beautiful when cut. I've never seen an FO discolor to grey before. Only yellows to reds to browns. Now that you know it discolors to a grey maybe you can make it work. I guess the color did have silver in the name.... Foreshadowing? Lol. Still looks pretty!

 

[lionprincess00]

redo! Neroli shea blossom. I used coconut milk for the first time, and so I decided not to gel this the first time in a long time. Well my layers separated on three of the four bars. So googling and finding the advice of the ever so helpful newbie, I stuck it in 170 degree oven, turn the oven off, and let it gel since it was still a little zappy at the bottom. What do you know it worked, and they are stuck together good like glue, and they don't look terrible. I think I would have been happier with a little bit better of a design than I executed, but I'm a lot happier than the other ones turned out and wanted to share with everyone.

now to recap things...zolvera chose galaxies soap, and we are waiting on galaxy to post their creation.
so it was zolveras turn to choose. I propose giving a deadline for her and others to post so it can be someone elses turn...id hate to see this challenge die off waiting and i know others are eager to play

 

[ourwolfden]

Wow, that looks awesome! I think I may have to use this technique when I do my Japanese cherry blossom soap… tonight… maybe J

 

[snappyllama]

yeap thats what I meant Island coconut and lemon verbana .
With star or with out stars

I LOVE that one LP. I agree. Let's say one more day for Zolveria to post her list of fragrances and techniques she's willing to do before moving onto the next person.

yeap thats what I meant Island coconut and lemon verbana .
With star or with out stars

Zolveria, the ball is in your court.

 

[zolveria]

sorry girls I am not getting update But here it is.

Sorry guys: I did not get update I am new so tell me if i did something wrong

On hand I have
Chocolate
Banana
bamboo and aloe
Jasmine EO
Tea Tree EO
1.5 bottle Lavender
EO blend of Patchouli and sandlewood.
Jamaican me crazy scent
EARTH

Color: fdc
Red 40
green
yellow
blue
Micas:
All possible Colors. ( some i have yet to test )

red brown yellow oxides.

french clay. betonite clay, Amla powder, Neem Powder, Moringa Powder. sandlewood powder.

Oval Mold, round mold and regular mold. I have a 2 inch mold slab mold i made I have not used that i would like to use.. 2x2 I Cube MOLDS


Exotic Oils
Argan
carrot
rosemary.

TECHNIQUE:
Drop Swirl
Spin Swirl
Mica Line
column swirl

Layers

I LOVE that one LP. I agree. Let's say one more day for Zolveria to post her list of fragrances and techniques she's willing to do before moving onto the next person.





Zolveria, the ball is in your court.

 

[zolveria]

Love this ice queen soap.. Frozen elsa soap woohoo..
I love frozen

just cut (not cleaned-up at all)... I'm okay with these.

I put too much white in with the first blend and that threw off the rest of the bar. My mica lines didn't separate (yay), but i think the colors were off (it's hard to tell i blended each line's mica)... Also the thickness wasn't great.

I wish my layers came out better. I should have done less-eyeballing and more measuring on the pours. I did get some air pockets since it took a long time to spoon out each layer, wipe the sides, put mica line on, wipe sides, repeat.

For sure, i'll try this again, although i might use a regular mold since the t&s one doesn't give a lot of room for wiping and seeing the lines.

The fragrance changed from a gingery-patch oob... It smells almost minty now. I still like it. It gave me tons of time to work and behaved perfectly.

 

[newbie]

Oh wow, lionprincess!! I love that! You got some excellent swirls in there. Nice design!