Painted on pencil line?

[coffeetime]

Ok it was hard enough to cut so I did. There was still a tiny bit of oil on the outside so I wiped it off. The swirl is not quite what I pictured, but it's a start. Unfortunately, the oil slick caused some gaps on the side of the bars.
The greens are powdered spinach and French green clay. Scent is Rosemary and peppermint.

 

[Obsidian]

It looks really nice, much better then I expected.

 

[coffeetime]

Yes, me too. I wonder if I use castor oil instead of SAO and used less if I could get a better result. I guess I will just have to try!

 

[Obsidian]

I don't know if I would try castor but I would definitely use less sao next time and maybe pour thinner. I tried a simple drop swirl poured at very thin trace today. I poured half my batter then covered with a lot of mica before I dropped the second layer in. I hope I get something interesting. Its a light brown and white soap with black mica.

 

[coffeetime]

Did you use dry mica, Obsidian, or in oil? I have a hard time keeping things at thin trace because I use clays and a bit of a water discount.

 

[Obsidian]

I used dry mica and probably way too much. My sifter popped open and spilled a large glob right in the middle. I made sure to use full water and soap cool since I was using 50% coconut milk and a untested FO. Its a slow tracing recipe anyways, with a high amount of tallow.
It could have actually been a bit thicker for the pour, I suspect my two colors mixed together way more then I wanted. I also used too much brown oxide, its darker then I was hoping for.

 

[lenarenee]

Oh wow! That looks fantastic! Very different from how mine turned out. Now you've got me thinking I need to try experimenting with it again!

 

[coffeetime]

Thank you Lenarenee. It's growing on me. I think I can improve on it a bit. Any idea if there's a name for this swirl? I can't remember if she called it anything in the video.

 

[Obsidian]

Heres mine, not quite what I was after but close. Maybe if I would have poured slower, the white would be better outlined. Spilling all the mica did make a mess though, the excess was pushed to the sides, I'll have to plane this once its a bit firmer.

 

[coffeetime]

Nice. I had the same problem with the line being pushed to the sides. My sides are ug-lee! What if we mixed the colourant into a thin small amount of soap and brush it on?

 

[coffeetime]

Just thinking that we could get a nice marble effect with this. I've got to try that. ...with charcoal, white main soap, grey soap, oh and I have some copper mica that I could try to put a vein in with. Hmmm...

 

[newbie]

One issue is how to get the pencil line to stretch, so to speak, to outline the drop. I'm not sure if dry powder/mica will do it. THe oil has more of a chance, I think.

 

[Obsidian]

Yeah, the dry powder moved around way too much. I'm thinking a small amount of thin colored soap batter would work best.

 

[abc]

Is this what you're trying to do?? I found it in the drop swirl Greatcakes challenge.

 

[Obsidian]

Yes, thats what I was going for.

 

[coffeetime]

Yes! How was that achieved??

 

[Saponista]

I have seen loads of soaps like this and keep wondering how people manage to do it so accurately.

 

[kchaystack]

I have seen loads of soaps like this and keep wondering how people manage to do it so accurately.

Lots of practice and a little luck!

 

[coffeetime]

I just went and found the posting and it was a cocoa powder line that made that. I'll have to see if I can find a video.

 

[newbie]

Look at the shape of it though. I don't think that's cocoa powder all by itself because parts of it outlining the drops are too thick and have corners on them. That looks more like how batter moves and responds to a drop than how powder does. Maybe she will tell you how she does it but I would guess that it's cocoa powder in small amount of batter. Even powder in oil seems unlikely to stay in that shape.