January 2025 SMF Challenge - Confetti!

[KiwiMoose]

Congratulations winners! All lovely soaps and very hard to choose just three.

 

[CLMP]

Congratulations to @Mobjack Bay , @Cindy D. And @basti awesome soaps, nice

 

[Cindy D.]

Congratulations @Mobjack Bay love the bright party colors and @basti the cats are so cute!
What a great challenge, with so many beautiful soaps!
Thank you @Vicki C !!

 

[dibbles]

Congrats to the winners! It was fun to see the confetti creativity from all. Thank you for hosting @Vicki C !

 

[VikingChick]

Congratulations to the winners! And thanks to @Vicki C fir a fun challenge!

 

[dibbles]

Such beautiful soaps from everyone!

Who has tips for getting that perfect smooth surface for your confetti soaps? Mine are kinda bumpy, and I see what looks very smooth on many of your confetti soaps. Especially noticed your smooth soap faces, @dibbles, @ScentimentallyYours, @Mobjack Bay. What are y’all doing to get that?
I feel like it is comparable to being able to fold fitted sheets - only witches can do it LOL. I’ve got the sheets down, now I need the smooth surface confetti soap process to add to my book of spells.

One of the reasons I prefer Ciaglia to confetti soaps is the smoother texture. I do think the soaps for this challenge were smooth with just cutting with my wire cutter, but they normally are a bit bumpy. I think planing them helps smooth everything out if the surface is bumpy though.

 

[Mobjack Bay]

Congratulations @basti and @Cindy D. for making delightful confetti soaps! What a wonderful lineup it was this month, with creative confetti soap all around. Congratulations everyone! And, thank you

Thank you, @Vicki C for creating and leading this challenge

 

[Mobjack Bay]

@dmcgee5034 I didn’t do anything special to my soaps to smooth them this time, but I do have a polishing method that helps to make soap smoother without a lot of planing. I described it here: https://www.soapmakingforum.com/threads/polishing-soap-bars.90852/post-976833. The plastic cutting board I use is textured just enough to make it easy to get a polished surface without making any divots or gouges in the soap. I’ve tried using both alcohol and water for wet polishing and like 91% alcohol best because it dries quickly.

I recently watched a video by Teri Endsley where she used an automotive sponge (?) to polish her soap bars. It’s the same idea.

 

[ackosel]

Congratulations to the winners and all the participants. Every single entry was winner quality! My children all asked if they could "vote", so we had our own little voting. The challenge brings joy to more than just participants and SMF members. I share pictures with all my family and they love it!

 

[Tammyfarms]

Congratulations to the winners! This vote was really hard as there were a LOT of beautiful soaps. @Vicki C thank you for a great challenge!

 

[Vicki C]

Congratulations to the winners and all the participants. Every single entry was winner quality! My children all asked if they could "vote", so we had our own little voting. The challenge brings joy to more than just participants and SMF members. I share pictures with all my family and they love it!

That’s really cute…

 

[basti]

Thank you everyone and congrats to the other winners

Can't wait to see what the next challenge is~