January 2025 SMF Challenge Entry Thread - Confetti!

[Vicki C]

The Entry thread for the January 2025 SMF Soap Challenge is now open!

As a reminder, this entry thread is for challenge entries only. All comments or non-entry photos should to the general challenge thread:

January 2025 General Challenge Thread

The first photo in your entry thread post will be used as the entry photo for voting. The photo must include two bars, and should show the confetti design. Additional photos showing your process are welcome. The two bars should be from the same batch. Please refer to the competition rules in the general challenge thread if you have any questions about the challenge requirements. All entries are subject to these deadlines:

* The entry thread will close on January 28 at 11:59 PM GMT.

* The voting survey link and password will be sent as an SMF message (the envelope icon on the SMF website - not as an email outside SMF) to all registered participants shortly thereafter.”

* The voting survey will remain open until January 30 at 11:59 PM GMT, or until all registrants have voted, whichever is sooner.

* The winner will be announced by January 31 by 11:59 PM GMT.

 

[artemis]

The Entry thread for the January 2025 SMF Soap Challenge is now open!


The first photo in your entry thread post will be used as the entry photo for voting. The photo must include two bars, and should show the flannel or knit design.

I know this part is wrong, but is the rest right?

 

[Tammyfarms]

This month I used an EO blend from eocalc called Juicy. It’s primarily grapefruit with orange, lime, lemon and litsea cubeba. The fragrance is definitely Juicy. The base color is BB Fired Up Fushia and shreads are from some older bars of soap pictured below.

 

[justsomeguy]

Sweet almond oil soap made with faux seawater, .5% sodium gluconate, 20% crumbles of my first failed entry for this challenge. 10 oz of oil colored with 1/4 tsp matte red iron oxide powder.

 

[Vicki C]

I know this part is wrong, but is the rest right?

Gaaaah obviously copied from the last challenge - I’ll fix right away!

 

[ackosel]

The confetti for this soap was made from leftover square embeds from the plaid soap I made for the October challenge (picture of that soap is last). I used a vegetable peeler to make big pieces of confetti. This soap is scented with equal parts Eucalyptus, Peppermint, Rosemary, Lemongrass and Cedarwood essential oils.

I made a 3-color hanger swirl in the bottom of the mold with Moroccan red clay, activated charcoal and French pink clay. My batter thickened a lot faster than I was ready for, but I managed to drag the hanger through and then bang most of the air bubbles out. I let the swirl set up while I made the confetti portion.

The base soap for the confetti is colored with French pink clay. I brought the batter to light trace and hand-stirred the confetti in at 30%. Again, the batter accelerated on me, but I crammed the confetti mixture on top of the swirl, banged the tar out of it and gelled the soap.

 

[Humblegoat]

My go to goat milk recipe. I used shreds, curls, rolls, and chunks. The pieces were from soap trimmings and scraps of kaleidoscope soaps. I really wanted the rolls to be like “dots” and they sort of are, but the down side was the rolls were so tight that batter did not get in them. An unexpected result. 2nd pic, scraps from these 2 soaps, 3rd pic a close up of unfilled rolls. And of course the color was supposed to be a fuchsia and dark teal

 

[artemis]

I have been liking light gray with dark gray lately. I used AC for the colorant. The scent is a combo of Orange Blossom and Library, both from Candle Science. I took an existing gray-on-gray bar and made three different sizes of confetti. I lightly colored my new batter with AC. The cut was a little rough-- I think the confetti was a little harder than I expected and interfered with cutting.