Piping method and CPOP

[sunny_]

Hi!

I am a newbie and definitely not going to try piping on my very first batches, but I want to understand better a couple things.

I watched in Youtube some pretty awesome soap designs- swirling and on top of that piping the soap at thick trace- does a batch made this way can be put in the oven after molding to force gel? or the toppings will melt and lose their whipped look?
the toppings which piped at thick trace are less likely to get soda ash?
And generally- how to force gel in such design conditions?
So many questions pop in my mind the more I read :think:

Thanks

 

[Nao]

When CPOPing you preheat the oven to 65C, put the soap in the oven and turn it off. Let the soap sit in the oven an hour or two or even over night if you like, before you take it out. I'm pretty sure CPOP won't make the piping lose it's shape.

And soda ash has nothing to do with trace, if you don't want soda ash the easiest to do is spray the mould right before, and the soap right after, you have poured/ piped the batter with isopropyl.