Salt bars

[margarita]

I'm pretty happy how they turned out!

The South Wind, scented with grapefruit, orange and litsea essential oils.



The North Wind, scented with spearmint essential oil.



Now I need to make the other two

 

[PrairieCraft]

Wow, I love the North Wind, beautiful colors. The other one is nice too but I'm partial to blues. Great job.

 

[nattynoo]

Gorgeous salt bars.

 

[Dragonkaz]

Fabulous salt bars ... congratulatiosn!

 

[dOttY]

Gorgeous! *makes mental note to look into 'salt bars'* I'm guessing the salt adds an exfoliating effect?

 

[Dragonkaz]

... I'm guessing the salt adds an exfoliating effect?

Exfoliating and hydrating. Usually made with coconut oil only, superfatted 20% and a high % of salt ... I make mine with 70% salt, but many use 100% salt.

 

[dOttY]

Thanks for that! Seems overly complicated to me Maybe in time...

 

[soapbuddy]

Very nice!

 

[trishwosere]

Gorgeous Margarita and the swirls look absolutely amazing

 

[Soapsugoii]

Wow. I'm loving the North Wind. And what an awesome name, too. It looks like a scene out of the lord of the rings movies

 

[Hazel]

margarita -

Those are beautiful but I agree that the North Wind is the best. It's very striking looking.

Thanks for that! Seems overly complicated to me Maybe in time...

Dotty -

Salt bars are easy. You should try a batch. The only problem is they harden so quickly that they crumble if you don't cut them while they're still warm.

I made my first salt bar batch by following Dagmar's tutorial. Of course, mine wasn't as nice looking as hers. :wink:

http://www.smftutorials.com/how-to-make-salt-soap.html

 

[KylieO]

i agree, go for it dotty, heaps of fun. my 1st salt soap i used a loaf mould but for the 2nd batch i used a individual mould and it was soooo much easier. i use 80% of oil weight in salt

big oops! just realised i never commented on how gorgeous your salt bars are, love them

 

[Dragonkaz]

Agree ... salt soap is easy!

Also agree ... use individual moulds if you have them. My first batch I made a log and some muffins. I tried to cut the log about three hours after I had put it in the moulds ... but it was messy, due to it having already set so hard.

Now I make use silicon muffin moulds.

 

[Bubbles Galore]

Love these. Great job. :wink:

 

[MeadowHillFarmCT]

oh my - how beautiful!!!

The pink looks to have a palm tree design. I want mine to look like that. :cry:

 

[margarita]

Thanks everyone! It was ITM swirl, since my ITP never looks very good. Well, actually, I just dumped the different colored soap in the mold, swirled a little and then hoped for the best LOL.

dOttY, I agree with everyone, go for it! It's really not that complicated, especially if you do it in individual molds.

MeadowHillFarmCT, I don't think I can recreate that palm tree design either

 

[Lynnz]

Oh my these are beautiful I am excited as the loveleeee Hazel sent me some saltbars to try. I have not ventured into this as of yet, but guessing once I use these I will be wanting to for sure. :0)

 

[dcornett]

WOW! They both turned out awesome...great swirl pattern!

 

[judymoody]

Those are amazingly crisp swirls for salt bars. Well done!

 

[saltydog]

Beautiful colors and swirls!