Tiger Swirl

[DWinMadison]

Here's a new one I haven't tried yet. I've seen someone do it on Youtube. As I understand it, it involves pouring two colors alternating in fairly small quantities into a loaf pan. Should I pour for penetration or from low altitude? I'm going for traditional tiger colors. Thinking natural soap with the alternate orange coming from a combo of tumeric and tomato paste. This will be my first experience with "spice rack" colorants. I use mostly oxides, but I haven't had much luck with brick red and yellow oxides in achieving orange. Any words of wisdom on the process? The planned fragrances will be from orange 5x and sandalwood.

 

[SoapAddict415]

I haven't seen or heard of the tiger swirl before, but I would try pouring from a low altitude and if it doesn't seem to be swirling the way you want it to, then switch to a high pour.

 

[melstan775]

low altitude, you don't want the colors to mix. work with a light to medium to trace, and pour low and slow. Watch The SoaperStar on youtube. Celine does tons of these swirls. When I did it I poured too thick and had to bang my mold a lot. The last layers fell out of my pouring cups and I spoon-smoothed them out. Still came good though, here's a pic for your reference. the unfortunate color is the result of The Accidental Bacon Strip Incident.

PS, can I ask about the swirl from Savviore Mika that you got the rose swirl from? She had three or four different swirl videos and I'm not smart enough to know which one you used.

 

[DWinMadison]

Here's a tiger stripe from Amathia Soapworks.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sRe9_W_8R8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sRe9_W_8R8[/ame]

 

[DWinMadison]

PS, can I ask about the swirl from Savviore Mika that you got the rose swirl from? She had three or four different swirl videos and I'm not smart enough to know which one you used.

I believe this is the one you are looking for. Hers are WAY prettier than mine, plus there's relaxing music :clap:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07eK0rKzo3E"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07eK0rKzo3E[/ame]

 

[DWinMadison]

...and btw...How awesome is this Youtube for "Burning Flame" Soap that I just found...

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AEdtriK1yA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AEdtriK1yA[/ame]

 

[DWinMadison]

OK...after further reflection and a return to "Tigers are Orange and Black 101" class from kindergarten, I'm rethinking my color choices. It's just that orange and black is going to look so Halloween-ie. What do you guys think?

 

[nebetmiw]

To me a traditional tiger is at least 3 colors. White black and orange maybe a bit of yellow. Very cool videos all. What are the mold? and how big are they?

 

[DWinMadison]

I'm planning on using my 3.5x13 acrylic loaf mold (freezer bin that I purchased from Kroger on a whim). It has become my standard go-to mold.

 

[tryanything]

Wow, that burning flame soap was awesome! Love the music in the second video also! Thanks for sharing these. I suck at finding good swirl videos on youtube!

 

[dianne70]

Thin to medium trace, pour low, and work as quickly as you can while trying to stay in the middle of your mould....especially if you went to medium trace. Sometimes the soap batter thickens a lot by the time you are finished. Its fun and its pretty easy...you'll be right, judging from some of the other things you have attempted

 

[DWinMadison]

Thin to medium trace, pour low, and work as quickly as you can while trying to stay in the middle of your mould....especially if you went to medium trace. Sometimes the soap batter thickens a lot by the time you are finished. Its fun and its pretty easy...you'll be right, judging from some of the other things you have attempted

That was very sweet. Thank you, but compared to you guys I feel like a klutz most of the time in my soaping....more dumb luck than good. I'm worried about the orange 5x and fast trace. I've read some comments about mixing the EO directly with the oils. Anybody with experience with this technique? (I mix mine at trace) If so, should I plan on extra EO?

 

[Badger]

I just found a nice ITP swirl video tutorial that I watched. I am planning on doing one for the challenge soap this month... just need to see if I can get the colors I want for it. I love the Burning Flame soap. It gave me another inspiration for another soap to do, but will have to see what happens Too many soaps, not enough money or space, lol!

 

[chicklet]

Here (again) is my tiger swirl, Celine style. Except I've been calling it a zebra swirl. Zebra as in Debra. Debra's zebra. I agree with dianne about starting with thin to medium trace. Medium trace is best, but don't start TOO medium or it will get too thick before you get done. It's a very forgiving swirl and currently my favorite. I hope this picture is not too big - it looks huge on photobucket.

 

[Badger]

Wow, that is beautiful!

 

[cliff]

Wow that is impressive.

 

[DWinMadison]

Perfect! Exact what I'm going for. Did you use AC or oxide for the black?

 

[chicklet]

Awww.... thanks, y'all! I got so excited about this swirl that I made two batches of it in one day - both turned out great. Then I got all cocky and confident and made a third batch a few days later and I would post a pic of THAT disaster except I didn't take any pictures. I used way too much titanium dixide in the white part. Ugh. But I redeemed myself Saturday by making another batch and it turned out mahvelous.

DW - I used both charcoal and black oxide. I still don't know exactly how much my mold holds but it's 60 oz of oils total and I used 1 level tsp of charcoal and about 1/4 tsp of oxide (not exactly level, but not heaping). And Saturday I stayed with only 1 tsp of TD fully dissolved in warm water for the white part.

Here's a pic of the 2nd batch - batter was a little thicker for this one so the stripes are a little different. It looks like there are little bits of yellow in places but that's just the pic - I used my iPhone.

 

[nebetmiw]

That looks alot like marble. Way too cool.

 

[chicklet]

Thanks. I just wanted to add - I cut Saturdays batch late last night. I looked at them just now and I could defintely have used more charcoal or oxide. The black stripes are dark gray. I'll post a pic later.