Those are super pretty! Had the interior lollipop swirl worked out, you would have been vying for a spot in the winner's circle, for sure! And it is still a soap of which you can be quite proud, and which some friends will surely be happy to receive (assuming you are gifting since selling isn't doable for you yet, as I recall).
I didn't want to flood the entry thread with extra verbosity, so I'll share a bit of background to my design here.
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I kept my word!The single one (pre-announced) exception that I bought after the initial challenge was the rice vinegar, because, what sushi has no rice vinegar? Otherwise, I finally used up cupuaçu butter, infused olive oil, and ran dangerously low on HO sunflower oil, distilled water, and NaOH.
Batch sizes were 100 g oils for the core, 200 g for the rice (still a lot of the gratings left for future projects), and 100 g fir green soap dough (even more left).
- Free of palm, oink, moo, baa, chemically modified oils, colourants and fragrances (except for the inherent colour/scent of functional ingredients).
- The core (salmon) is CP lollipop swirl, red colour with 15%ppo paprika kernel oil. Half of the amount would have been enough! But it was my first soap with it, as well as coconut milk and diatomaceous earth as a mild exfoliant (pure coincidence if it contributed to opacity/whiteness too). My initial plan was to combine green (vegetable) as a third colour into it (yerba mate extract), but as reported, the colour riced (no pun intended), so I kneaded it into soap dough and stuffed it besides the swirl bar.
- Of course, we need some rice for the mantle, enter triple rice (well in my case, double rice) HP soap with said rice vinegar added to the lye. Grated up and pressed onto the nori like you would make edible sushi, it was still a bit too compliant to offer good mechanical support during cutting.
- A propos nori, wrapped around is a sheet of soap dough made with a spirulina-infused olive oil I had lurking around for half a year. Perfect dirty olive-black colour, and authentic seaweed smell!
Cutting up didn't fully go according to plan. As said, the rice bed was still quite soft, I originally wanted to cut the sausage into 7 slices, but I dared to cut barely 5 times. The core is pieced together from three film container pours (see photo), and of course I wanted to cut through the lollipop parts, not the glue in between (that was kneaded together from all the scaps, and the fourth, very unsightly pour).
ETA: A few words to the decoration: The “wasabi” chocolate is not chocolate, but CP soap coloured with the same yerba mate extract as I planned to use for the swirl. Back then, two weeks ago, it moved so slowly that I ruined it at unmoulding, made soap dough from it, and pressed it into my tiny chocolate bar moulds. The tea isn't really camellia tea, but something no less decadent. And what do you mean by “your vinegar bottle doesn't have a dispenser cap”?
Anyway, a fun challenge, but I'm largely through with that kind of vanity soaping for a while now. See you again in a few weeks when it's time to watch the rice shreds fall apart at the sink
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This looks gorgeous! And it's somewhat unique, didn't see anything similar anywhere. It reminds me of the spiral worms of the Mandelbrot fractal. Did you something special to achieve this? I guess this needs some very specific target parameters (mould diameter, batter fluidity, size of the pour additions, rotation angle).
I didn't do anything madly out of the ordinary, but I was trying to push the pinwheel-type result to its limits to see what would happen. The batter was very very very fluid; throughout most of the pour I was thinking it was all just blending together, since it was sinking under a kind of semi-opaque skin which formed on the top. Imagine my surprise when I cut it! The pictured bars are actually most of it, there were only 5 and I omitted the top and bottom pieces. Also the quantity of each pour was very small, I was aiming for the pool at the bottom to go no more than 1cm away from the wall of the mould (in a roughly 7.5cm diameter).
It appears to me that this “zigzag” is how the “bamboo nodes” effect looks like when the amount of pour per round is “push[ed …] to its limits to see what would happen”. Thanks for sharing! IMO, pouring not enough for a single round to cover the whole surface is an innovative twist to the Lollipop technique. And I can now better understand the, umm, passionate durations of your pours
Very beautiful, but also somehow unsettling! (Also I watched it for too long and now everything is zooming out...)
How about pouring transparent soap among the rice to hold it together a bit? You can pretend it's the gelatinous outer layer of the sticky riceSee you again in a few weeks when it's time to watch the rice shreds fall apart at the sink
OHHHHHHH - I LOVE it! I could see it all in a video playing in my mind. ☺Wish I had a video so we could all have a good laugh. My table and counters are too high for me to pour into this mold. So it was sitting in a holding container which was sitting on towels on the kitchen floor. I was sitting on a step-stool, wearing sweats, slippers, a headlamp, gloves, and a face shield, and rotating my three color containers around the towel. No actual swearing happened, but there were swear-word substitutes and lots of muttering.
You know I was thinking the same thing, right?? Only I don't think mine could give the running commentary that made yours so (in)famous.Mr @AliOop needs to break out the camera and start videoing like Jersey Boy.
Convincing in its simplicity! And these two zones (one whirling directly around the “eyes”, and one outside) add just some unique personality to it.
You know I was thinking the same thing, right?? Only I don't think mine could give the running commentary that made yours so (in)famous.
So sorry for your loss Dear
Oh bummer! Hope everything is ok.I'm so sorry to announce I wont be able to participate in Lollipop soap challenge' I was looking forward to it' but other things got in the way & Ive run out of time. Good luck everyone
Just... stunning. At first I thought the swirl - salmon pieces were inside real rice and nori, which still would have been impressive.I didn't want to flood the entry thread with extra verbosity, so I'll share a bit of background to my design here.
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I kept my word!
Batch sizes were 100 g oils for the core, 200 g for the rice (still a lot of the gratings left for future projects), and 100 g fir green soap dough (even more left).
- Free of palm, oink, moo, baa, chemically modified oils, colourants and fragrances (except for the inherent colour/scent of functional ingredients).
- The core (salmon) is CP lollipop swirl, red colour with 15%ppo paprika kernel oil. Half of the amount would have been enough! But it was my first soap with it, as well as coconut milk and diatomaceous earth as a mild exfoliant (pure coincidence if it contributed to opacity/whiteness too). My initial plan was to combine green (vegetable) as a third colour into it (yerba mate extract), but as reported, the colour riced (no pun intended), so I kneaded it into soap dough and stuffed it besides the swirl bar.
- Of course, we need some rice for the mantle, enter triple rice (well in my case, double rice) HP soap with said rice vinegar added to the lye. Grated up and pressed onto the nori like you would make edible sushi, it was still a bit too compliant to offer good mechanical support during cutting.
- A propos nori, wrapped around is a sheet of soap dough made with a spirulina-infused olive oil I had lurking around for half a year. Perfect dirty olive-black colour, and authentic seaweed smell!
Cutting up didn't fully go according to plan. As said, the rice bed was still quite soft, I originally wanted to cut the sausage into 7 slices, but I dared to cut barely 5 times. The core is pieced together from three film container pours (see photo), and of course I wanted to cut through the lollipop parts, not the glue in between (that was kneaded together from all the scaps, and the fourth, very unsightly pour).
ETA: A few words to the decoration: The “wasabi” chocolate is not chocolate, but CP soap coloured with the same yerba mate extract as I planned to use for the swirl. Back then, two weeks ago, it moved so slowly that I ruined it at unmoulding, made soap dough from it, and pressed it into my tiny chocolate bar moulds. The tea isn't really camellia tea, but something no less decadent. And what do you mean by “your vinegar bottle doesn't have a dispenser cap”?
Anyway, a fun challenge, but I'm largely through with that kind of vanity soaping for a while now
