MY FIRST SWIRL!!

[MKRainville]

My First Swirl!
Olive Oil
Coconut Oil
Palm
Bramble Berry's Cold Water FO
Ultramarine Blue
Black Oxide
Titanium Oxide (to keep it white)

SMELLS SO HEAVENLY


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[newbie]

Pretty darn nice! Especially for a first swirl and I love that scent, too!

 

[Woodi]

Much prettier than my fist swirl! - Great job!

 

[JackiK]

I'm excited for you and jealous for me It's beautiful. i love the color combo. Mine haven't worked out so well.

 

[MKRainville]

I tried hard to do everything very slowly so I didnt "over" swirl. I read all sortsa posts and watched several youtube videos first (did my homework)

Thank you
Im all too proud lol....

 

[MKRainville]

I cant wait to cut it when I get home from work! Im going to make my second swirl today! I will post the cut bars tonight! Thanks for the good remarks!

 

[Jerry S]

Great swirls

Your swirls are absolutely beautiful...
You mentioned using Ultramarine Blue and Black Oxide and titanium D. How did you mix your colors into your soap if you don't mind sharing. Were your colors the powdered kind.
Yesterday I did some swirls for the first time in CP soap and it turn out a mess....
I mixed my color in glycerin adding a small amount of the traced soap in a small plastic cup using my café frothier. This time I poured this small mixture directly into my soap, which I had put into my mold. I did this from a distance up so that it would reach to about the middle of the soap in the mold and then did my swirling.
After about 15 hours I checked my soap and the coloring that was on top had sort of separated from the Glycerin and oil. I left it another 24 hours and its still sort of an oozing, bleeding mess. What did I do wrong???
Js

 

[AmyW]

Those are amazing swirls!! I'm jealous!

Hopefully someone can help you there Jerry, I don't know anything about this stuff (yet).

 

[Dennis]

Wow! Beautiful! I am excited for you. That is absolutely beautiful. If the fragrance is half as good as the appearance that is a winner. Thanks for the motivating picture.

Yes, I am envious, can't help it. I really am. Can't wait to do that myself.

 

[MKRainville]

Re: Great swirls

Your swirls are absolutely beautiful...
You mentioned using Ultramarine Blue and Black Oxide and titanium D. How did you mix your colors into your soap if you don't mind sharing. Were your colors the powdered kind.
Yesterday I did some swirls for the first time in CP soap and it turn out a mess....
I mixed my color in glycerin adding a small amount of the traced soap in a small plastic cup using my café frothier. This time I poured this small mixture directly into my soap, which I had put into my mold. I did this from a distance up so that it would reach to about the middle of the soap in the mold and then did my swirling.
After about 15 hours I checked my soap and the coloring that was on top had sort of separated from the Glycerin and oil. I left it another 24 hours and its still sort of an oozing, bleeding mess. What did I do wrong???
Js

The first time I made soap with powdered colors this happened to me too (but I didnt swirl) I just added the powder to the soap and stirred it up with no instruction and I got a big yuckie mess - so i decided to research it some and then this is what I got!

I pre-mixed my colors before even adding them to the soap. I used powderd Oxides and Ultramarines.

Ultramarines I added about 1/4 tsp of the powder to about 2 tablespoons of warmed oil (and shook it into a slurry)

Oxide (black) I did 1/4 tsp to about 2-3 tablespoons of Warm Water and shook into a slurry

Titanium oxide I mixed it into my lye water after it had cooled down to around 95-100% and I used my stick blender to incoperate it before I added it to my oils (it became very white)

the ultramarine and the oxide I had in a small squirt bottle (condiment bottles i bought at walmart) so i just added some of the white soap to it after it started to trace (not a full trace) then I shook the the bottles up so the color was completly incorperated. then I poured the the white soap into the mold, and I took the squirt bottles and made "zig zags" down the top. Then with a bamboo squewer and made the swirl.

try again!!! dont give up
I found a PDF on google - http://southernsoapers.com/tools/nat/Ox ... _neons.pdf
read this! its super helpful
hope this helps you Jerry!

 

[MKRainville]

Wow! Beautiful! I am excited for you. That is absolutely beautiful. If the fragrance is half as good as the appearance that is a winner. Thanks for the motivating picture.

Yes, I am envious, can't help it. I really am. Can't wait to do that myself.

i was very nervous... just try it! you can do it - I researched it first for a while before i tried it

 

[Dennis]

Had to come back and look again. Boy, that is nice!

 

[heyjude]

Beautiful job!

 

[MKRainville]

Had to come back and look again. Boy, that is nice!

Cant wait to see yours Dennis! good luck man!

Mary Kay!

 

[soapbuddy]

Pretty swirls!

 

[Bubbles Galore]

That's really pretty. :wink:

 

[agriffin]

beautiful swirls! you should be proud!

 

[Jerry S]

Great swirls

Thanks for the tips MK….
That PDF file really is help in explaining all there is to know on how to mix all these Colorants. I wish that I had seen it before I made such a mess. I was on the right track but I don’t think I had mixed my colorants well enough.
Jerry

 

[ikindred]

Nice, your colors are beautiful. I tried my first swirl today as well and I am happy with the preliminary results, can't wait to unmold!

http://img641.imageshack.us/i/teetreefacialsoap003.jpg/

 

[JackiK]

Nice, your colors are beautiful. I tried my first swirl today as well and I am happy with the preliminary results, can't wait to unmold!

http://img641.imageshack.us/i/teetreefacialsoap003.jpg/

WOW! Yours turned out great, too. I can hardly wait. BTW, where did you buy your mold?

Jacki