Mini Drop Swirl

[Carolyne Thrasher]

I watched the video but am a little confused (who would have guessed huh?) I love the little drops but my question is are they done randomly thru out the bar or do you do a line of them?

You are kind of flying blind as to position. That makes unmolding and cutting super exciting.

 

[dibbles]

Well, I just ordered, like, a million pipettes, so I guess I better figure this out. To your and kiwi’s points, my batters are so darned inconsistent as to how quickly they move, I’ll need a plan b in my pocket.

I almost have a hanger tool or skewer ready for when things go wonky.

 

[DWinMadison]

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I’ve done it twice now using squeeze bottles and cutoff pipettes. It wasn’t too hard. Just make sure you use a fluid recipe and well behaving fragrance. Have everything laid out and ready to go. The base should be at a light when you pour it into the mold because it will setup a bit more while you bottle up your colors.

My recipe:
30% rice bran
25% canola
25% coconut
15% palm
5% avocado oil

Water:lye was 2:1
Half of the water was coconut milk added to the oils
Also used sodium lactate and kaolin clay

I really like this recipe.

This may be a dumb question, but how did you get white inside the purple drops and red drops?

 

[Carolyne Thrasher]

This may be a dumb question, but how did you get white inside the purple drops and red drops?

Not a dumb question. You can kind of see where you laid down your most recent drop line and go immediately over that line on the next pass. As the soap sets up with each consecutive pass each layer of drop line sits a little higher until you are laying down lines sitting on top of the last ones. Fluidity of your batter really makes an interesting variable. You cannot exactly determine how your final soap is going to look. So if you are super type A, this isn’t the best technique for you. I think most artisan soapers are a bit type A with a side of adventurous spirit.