October 2017 Challenge Entry Thread- Minimalism

[lionprincess00]

Entries can now be submitted! Please post ONLY your entries on this thread. Any other comments/compliments or discussion should be left on the original challenge thread.

Please post a picture of your soap.

Multiple pictures are always welcome. Any information you wish to give on your colors or fragrances are also welcomed.

This thread will close on October 26, 2017 at 11:59 pm CST.

 

[artemis]

This soap was sort of Gaius' idea. He wanted a "Hoth" soap to go with the "Tattooine" soap I did for the fluid pour challenge. It's lard, palm, olive, avocado, and castor. Kaolin clay in the whole batch, Caribbean blue mica from BB for the blue. Scented with peppermint. The snow is confetti made with a previous batch of the same recipe. The zoomed out pic best shows the color, but the close-up shows the falling snow a little better. I gradually added the "snow" into the batter, a little more with each pour. Kind of like a gradient, only with more and more confetti instead of mica. I was trying to get a falling snow effect. I tried two different grater sizes for two different batches, but the snow came out looking the same, either way.

 

[jewels621]

"Moooo-n over Mi-ham-i"......get it?.....it's got both beef tallow and lard in it.
White is titanium dioxide. Turquoise is a custom mix of Blue Vibrance, Green Vibrance, and Ultramarine Blue. Gold mica line for interest. Scented with Fairy Garden from Nurture.

 

[HowieRoll]

This soap was made over the course of 2 days, with the first day being to pour the layers (gray, white, gray) and put the straws into place, and the second day was to remove the straws and make a small batch of soap to fill in the holes (white, yellow). After about 3 days I removed it from the mold, cut the bars, and then planed them. The planing would have been so much easier with an actual planer, and I learned quickly after doing a test bar that a cheese slicer is not a suitable replacement. :think:

Below are photos of the first day after pouring (with the straws) and then the finished soap. It is scented with a mix of peppermint, lemongrass, and cedarwood EO, and the colors are activated charcoal, titanium dioxide, and yellow iron oxide.

Thank you, lionprincess00, for hosting such a fun challenge!

 

[Traumabrew]

My entry.

It is a pair of minimalist soaps called dichotomy.

 

[Kittish]

"Do you drink... wine?"

Ruby red mica and scented with Green Cognac EO from Eden. So far the scent is holding up well. It started off smelling strongly of apples, and has mellowed to a wine/apple scent.

 

[mommycarlson]

I am out of time, since I leave in the morning to drive my mom back to Florida (She evacuated for Irma). So this is it. I divided the batter, colored one portion with New Leaf from Nurture, scented the whole batch with Bamboo and Sugar Cane from Rustic Escentuals. Put a divider in my mold and poured the green on one side, the white on the other. Pulled it out, did a chopstick and a skewer separately, and expected a nice swirl. I did not get much of a swirl at all Oh well, it smells divine!

 

[SparksnFlash]

I did not get much of a swirl at all Oh well, it smells divine!

I actually like it A LOT.

 

[Cirafly24]

Black Tie- tea tree and lavender EOs, made with activated charcoal and titanium dioxide.

 

[SoapAddict415]

Not quite what I was expecting but here's my entry. The embeds looked closer together & more level before I poured the batter on top. It's made with colloidal oats and scented with Coconut-lime fo.

 

[ibct1969]

There are some beautiful entries so far! Here's mine. I used Twilight Blue Mica from Mad Micas and did a gold mica line and swirl on top using Nurture's Maya Gold Mica.

 

[SoapTrey]

After several attempts at creating a minimalist soap using pvc pipe (I thought I'd try something I've never done before), I simply went back to a familiar loaf mold and created this. I'll post one of my pvc attempts on the main Oct. challenge thread so you can see.

 

[Saponomancer]

peppermint cedarwood and cinnamon leaf, with titanium white and ultramarine

 

[dibbles]

The colored portion of this soap is 10% of the batter, most of which is Twilight mica from Mad Micas and the smaller portion is Maya Gold from Nurture. The fragrance is a blend of Vetyver (BB), Arabian Nights (MM), Naran Ji (Sweet Cakes) and Crisp Anjou Pear (BB).

 

[SunRiseArts]

Well, I decided to enter my MP. Honey base colored with yellow and white oxides, and green for the top and bottom.

Scented with a zucchini fragrance from BB. My boys really love the soap.

 

[penelopejane]

This is calamine powder mixed into the main batter with a plain (no colour) swirl which was 15% of the total batter. I poured a line of alternate batters along the side of the tilted mold. The photo has picked up a colour variation between the last larger coloured batter pour which is really not that evident in the soap. Ghost busters.

I expected the calamine powder to colour the batter pink but no such luck. Will try with more powder next time but I actually like this subtle effect of this one.

 

[Primrose]

Not sure whether to call this "in the nick of time" or "holy crap it worked"

I've not really tried colouring or swirling my soap yet so I thought this might be a good challenge for me to try. I came on board fairly late so I had time for one attempt only. My mica didn't arrive so I decided to attempt a ghost swirl which is also something I've been wanting to try.

So here it is, ghost swirl with goats milk

 

[CaraBou]

Autumn Glow

My vision here was for order, earthiness, and just a titch of spice.

The bottom bar (which is half of the loaf) shows the proportions properly, not the closest bar which is angled and exaggerates the non-black portions.

 

[lionprincess00]

You have until midnight central time tonight. Ignore the previous message that was here. I'm sorry.

 

[cherrycoke216]

This is scented with Brambleberry White Rose FO, using a rather fast recipe.
I want it to look like a purple/pale magenta cloudy dawn. The FO and mostly hard oil recipe did not cooperate with me very well, I can just plop it in the mold.
the different shade of purple and magenta is because it happen so fast, I can just barely hand mix the mica with spatula.