Kaleidoscope soap with M/P

[kocha12000]

Hi, my name is Anne and I’m new to soap making. I started out with M/P until I feel comfortable making soap.

So I am trying to make kaleidoscope soap and have failed twice. My biggest problem is that the soap on the bottom hardens while pouring. Thus, I can’t pull through. Any suggestions would be welcomed!

TIA

 

[artemis]

I really don't think this is going to work, for the very reason you mentioned. The MP is going to cool before you're ready to pull through. I suppose you could try setting it on a warm heating pad? Wrapping the base of the mold with towels to keep the heat in? But, really I think it might be best to hold off on this technique until after you've learned how to make soap.

 

[not_ally]

As artemis says, there's no way to do this with MP, you have to do too many pours within a pretty narrow temperature range, only possible with CP. With MP either the temp will be too high and the colors/layers will just run into each other, or too low and the layers will just sit on top of each other and you won't be able to pour concentric circles or pull through them. Pullt hroughs are a relatively advanced technique even if you have some experience with CP.

 

[FFLinOhio]

MP can only impersonate the kaleidoscope technique done in CP
here's an idea
using column molds, make embeds in colors/shapes that you want
then put embeds inside a larger circular column mold and pour the surrounding color using a barely melted temperature so that you do not melt the embeds