November 2024 SMF Challenge - Hello Yellow! Entry Thread

[Shelley D]

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Hello, fellow Hello Yellowers! The design is an ombre alternating wall pour. The color is yellow mica and titanium dioxide (Bramble Berry). The scent is equal parts eucalyptus, fir needle, peppermint, cedarwood, rosemary essential oils (BB). Mica line is snowflake sparkle.

I was motivated to do another alternating wall pour. It’s easy and has elegant results. I was super proud of my emulsion! The essential oil blend is a favorite, like a winter forest. And those stearic spots were planned, I got skills, baby!

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I have to ask ~ are there 6 or 7 layers??? Your colors fade so perfectly

Here's my "Tropical Bird" soap. Yellow reminds me of the tropical places I've visited on the Caribbean ocean as a child and the amazing birds that live there. I used yellow shea butter and it turned the batter a very pretty yellow. I wasn't sure how well the color would stay however, so I also used Firefly and Full Throttle micas in the yellow portion of the batter to boost the brightness. It is scented with Satsuma Orange from Nurture Handmade and smells just as bright as it looks. I used the feathered mantra swirl technique.

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This is what the batter looked like with no colorant expect for the yellow Shea butter:
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And here is my batter split to show 50 percent or more yellow batter. The pitcher with the yellow was much larger than the pitchers containing the other colors.
The blue is Making Waves mica, and the reddish is Wanderlust mica.
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Love these colors! Love this soap!

Hi everybody my soap is a lemon, almond, oatmeal soap and it smells like lemon meringue pie. I forgot to take photos of my yellow batter though so hopefully you can tell I have used a little more than 50 % yellow soap batter. I made a 3 pound batch and made 1 pound of batter yellow for my bottom layer plus I used 2/3 of a pound of yellow batter for my swirl. For my colors I used yellow mica, pearl gold mica, and TD the colors are from suds n scents and I used fragrance from candora fresh ginger lime, and Calypso sun. Also I ordered a mold to make little Lemon's to decorate the top but it didn't make it here on time. So you will have to imagine them lol. Well here it is.View attachment 79933

I really love the shade combo in this one ~ with or without the little lemons

My entry is a family favorite - Lemon Poppyseed. The yellow is colored with BB Buttercup Mica. The scent is kaolin clay soaked with 1/2 Lemon EO and 1/2 Litsea Cubeba. Particularly love this one for use in the kitchen.
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I guess I should add that it has a brown mica line between the yellow and white batter. It also has snowflake mica on top to give it a little pizzazz .

Any soap that looks good enough to eat is a winner in my book

My entry for this challenge. Made with high oleic sunflower oil. 3% Himalayan rhubarb infused oil for the red and 1% tumeric infused oil for the yellow. Scented with WSP hipster

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The red set up really fast. I could feel it "breaking" as the chopstick crossed it.

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Edit: added fragrance information

I love, love, love how perfectly complimentary your colors came out If I were mixing paint, I would want 2 shades that worked together like this! Lovely!

To everyone who did the twirly swirlys ~ I applaud you! I still haven't been able to get a clearly defined variation of colors and a perfect emulsion/light trace to do the swirly thing so I just delight in the accomplishments of others

View attachment 79863This was created with Nurture Handmade Soap colors, Love and Sunshine Mica with TD to lighten it(combo@ 56%), yellow vibrance [email protected]%, yellow [email protected]%, celadon green& lime a peel Mica @14.5% combined. The flowers are Cornflower blue enviroglitter and Caribbean blue. The bees are yellow vibrance and activated charcoal, they are painted with water& black onyx enviroglitter to help them stand out. All embeds were made with the standard disks that came with my small extruder.
This is my rough drawing 3rd photo. 4th photo is yellows still in the pitchers & bowl.

It's not asking if I want to add the thumbnail pictures, but the cell signal isn't good here.
I can't wait to see all the other pretty soaps!
Thanks for the inspiration @dibbles !!

I have no words ~ other than, does this soap have a name yet? Is it the Bee's Knees or Honey Pot? Or Sunshine on my Shoulder?

 

[Zing]

I have to ask ~ are there 6 or 7 layers??? Your colors fade so perfectly

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[Shelley D]

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Cool beans

 

[MomInWA]

Thank you! Michael's has the "fondant extruder tool" by celebrate it, for just under $20 and there are coupons... If you are in the USA.

@Cindy D. thank you for sharing! I love Michael’s and need to pop by there today anyway. I’ll see if they have the extruder tool. I’ve been curious to try it since I started soaping and saw it used on I Dream In Soap YouTube videos!

 

[Cindy D.]

To everyone who did the twirly swirlys ~ I applaud you! I still haven't been able to get a clearly defined variation of colors and a perfect emulsion/light trace to do the swirly thing so I just delight in the accomplishments of others
I have no words ~ other than, does this soap have a name yet? Is it the Bee's Knees or Honey Pot? Or Sunshine on my Shoulder?

Well it didn't have a name, but yesterday I was thinking I should name it "Bee Happy".

@Cindy D. thank you for sharing! I love Michael’s and need to pop by there today anyway. I’ll see if they have the extruder tool. I’ve been curious to try it since I started soaping and saw it used on I Dream In Soap YouTube videos!

I can't wait to see what you create!
The Soap Artist also has a YT video on how she makes her soap dough, if you are interested.