Looks great!
I love this! It’s a very creative way to use confetti.
Super soap!
So beautiful!
and i hope the rest of it worked (I may be looking at my first ever failed batch ☹). We’ll know in a day or two!
That's a lot of colourful things going on here! As if indigo itself wasn't weird enough already. It appears that the FO browned strongly through gel phase except for the outer “shell”? (Oddly enough, this contradicts my cocoa observations that the colour gets deeper on the outside when exposed to air) Or is it late bleaching? Do you expect the brown to fade on the cut surface over time?
Love it!
Very cool! Looks like mosaics tiling. I love the color combination you used.
Thank you! I seem to always land on the blue/green/purple side of the spectrum.
I took the photo within a few hours of cutting the soap yesterday and it doesn’t look much different today. The FO discolors to tan and I used it at 1.5% of oil weight. I was originally intending to use it at 3%, but ran out. As I recall, patchouli, which I used to make up the difference, also adds a bit of tan coloring. If anything, I think the the color could deepen a little due to the fo and eo. Due to the confetti, I made this soap with what I consider to be a lowish lye conc (33%) and covered it with a blanket. It got fairly warm, but did not overheat. I‘ve seen indigo go colorless in soap (right after addition), which I assumed was due to a state (redox?) change, but I’ve never had any issues with cocoa powder changing color, Including in a soap I made last month with the same cocoa powder.
Well, thanks. It’s not my best work
, but it smells great and I’m always learning something. I was planning on a light tan base in the bottom layer, but I obviously needed more of something to counteract the translucency of the gelled soap. I love these!
Yes I should have said your soap inspired me! Love that mosaic look. And I considered the thought of the thin layer first but unless it was really hot I’d be worried about separation. And yeah I considered warming up the cubes, but they were a tad sticky and I was worried about them congealing into a clump. It actually occurred to me at the very end that the reason the M&P wasn’t completely covering them was that the cubes were creating a cooling effect. Something to keep fooling around with.@Vicki C Heeey, you stole my design!
Seriously, that's some great bars of soap there. The only thing I dislike is that you're too hard to yourself. Your cubes are much smaller than mine, and I not only like the look of them more, but they also didn't behave as stubbornly as mine. I too hate it when M&P crazes out (hardening, skin formation, bubbles) during putting in large embeds, and the cooling thingie is really annoying (but when you heat up the cubes beforehand, e. g. in the oven, they might be just too warm and keep the M&P base from solidifying…).
Worth a try, to prevent the lowest layer of cubes from not being wetted all around: first pour a thin layer of M&P into the moulds, and only then add all the cubes (not sure if it is better to let the bottom layer solidify first, or not). But anyway, during usage, the cubes are exposed anyway, so if the bottom sides anticipate this, it's not that bad at all.
). The batter didn't stick too well to the cubes (too long in cure/too dry?), and it was too many of them and too large, so they arranged parallel to the wall and to themselves. You see how easily they break out.
). Anyway, I can still cut these white-blue mosaic discs into small cubes and embed them…
Just saw this thread & had to post pic of ZNSC tweak with confetti I made today for my DD. Had no clue confetti was this month challenge. Happy coincidence.
(PS, my photographer sucks)
I love it! It makes me think of a desert sunset.So I’m really kinda disappointed with mine, even if I do love the colors. I would have made another batch, but honestly, between work stuff (to include a possible new job & move) and having company, I‘ve been too distracted to soap too much this month.
This was a weird batch; it refused to set up (I know why). I was going for a multi-layered drop swirl, which then morphed into an attempt to just do some irregular layers. I thought I put in a ton of confetti, but it didn’t turn out to be that much.
So yeah, here it is
It makes me think of fire. Which I guess is similar to a desert sunset!
I like it, it looks like a pixelated sun set to meSo I’m really kinda disappointed with mine, even if I do love the colors. I would have made another batch, but honestly, between work stuff (to include a possible new job & move) and having company, I‘ve been too distracted to soap too much this month.
This was a weird batch; it refused to set up (I know why). I was going for a multi-layered drop swirl, which then morphed into an attempt to just do some irregular layers. I thought I put in a ton of confetti, but it didn’t turn out to be that much.
So yeah, here it is
