What would happen?

[Kittish]

I've seen the soaps where you use a divider to get two or more colors next to each other. What would happen if you sprayed the divider with alcohol, then dusted it with activated charcoal or titanium dioxide before pouring the soap? Would it leave a very thin vertical line when you pulled the dividers out? Not show at all? The coating come off and make little streaks in the soap?

I am planning to try the idea in the near future, but I thought maybe someone else might be intrigued by the question.

 

[Nao]

I'm thinking you would get streaks at best. When watching YouTube videos there always is a fair amount of soap that sticks to the divider when pulling it out and that would probably coat the dusting and not allow it to stay in the loaf.

An alternative could be making a very thin sheet of soap to use as the divider but instead of taking it out you just leave it in.

Or you can use a wider shallower loaf mould, (that looks like it's laying on its side instead of standing up) and make a regular mica line and when cutting it, it would give the same impression as the idea with coating the divider would. I don't know if I'm making sense here?

 

[Kittish]

I'm thinking you would get streaks at best. When watching YouTube videos there always is a fair amount of soap that sticks to the divider when pulling it out and that would probably coat the dusting and not allow it to stay in the loaf.

An alternative could be making a very thin sheet of soap to use as the divider but instead of taking it out you just leave it in.

Or you can use a wider shallower loaf mould, (that looks like it's laying on its side instead of standing up) and make a regular mica line and when cutting it, it would give the same impression as the idea with coating the divider would. I don't know if I'm making sense here?

I like the idea of using a thin sheet of soap, but have concerns that the loaf would tend to split where it was used. Might have to give it a try with a small batch.

The divisions I'm talking about are like you would use to make a mantra swirl, that already uses the wider mold. I'm wondering if you could leave a line similar to a pencil line running up and down between the different colors.

 

[dixiedragon]

I've made striped soap with the thin sheets. I use a cheese slicer. It works quite well. Your sheets need to be fresh soap - I try to make this where I can do 2 batches of soap in one day, or no more than 24 hrs apart. It also helps to gel it to get the older soap a bit melty so it will bond with the new soap.

Scroll down to #28 to see a pic of my soap and to #34 to see an indepth explanation.

ETA: Gah, forgot to add the link! http://www.soapmakingforum.com/showthread.php?t=49621&page=3

 

[Kittish]

I've made striped soap with the thin sheets. I use a cheese slicer. It works quite well. Your sheets need to be fresh soap - I try to make this where I can do 2 batches of soap in one day, or no more than 24 hrs apart. It also helps to gel it to get the older soap a bit melty so it will bond with the new soap.

Scroll down to #28 to see a pic of my soap and to #34 to see an indepth explanation.

I'd love to, can you give a link for where I'm scrolling?

 

[Nao]

I like the idea of using a thin sheet of soap, but have concerns that the loaf would tend to split where it was used. Might have to give it a try with a small batch.

The divisions I'm talking about are like you would use to make a mantra swirl, that already uses the wider mold. I'm wondering if you could leave a line similar to a pencil line running up and down between the different colors.

Hm. So a wide short soap with a vertical mica/pencil line then? What about using a tall skinny mould with a horizontal line and when cut and tilted so it's standing on its long/wide side, it will look like a wide short soap with a vertical line. Of course that will put some limitations on what kind of swirls you can pair it with and it won't work with textured tops either...
If that doesn't work for you either I'm all out of ideas!

Oh! Sorry, I just realised I totally misinterpreted your comment. Nevermind me!

 

[dixiedragon]

I'd love to, can you give a link for where I'm scrolling?

http://www.soapmakingforum.com/showthread.php?t=49621&page=3

 

[Nao]

Okay, this is getting embarrassing.

But while looking for a picture or video or anything that would better show what I talked about in my previous posts I found this:
https://nourishinghandmadebodycare....ap-challenge-and-vertical-mica-line-tutorial/
http://www.greatcakessoapworks.com/...p/apple-berry-faux-tall-skinny-soap-tutorial/

Both mixes their mica/charcoal powder with oil and smear it on their dividers then proceed as usual, and end up with vertical lines when they remove the divider.

I don't know if you have seen those already but I thought it was worth a try.

 

[Kittish]

Thanks for the link to the thread, dixiedragon. I like that red, white and green soap.

Nao, no I hadn't seen those. And that is exactly the sort of effect I was envisioning and hoping for. I didn't do any searching to see if I could find the technique in use (though I was pretty sure I wasn't the first to think of it). Glad to see the idea has a pretty good chance of working like I'd hoped and good to know it'll work better mixing the color for the line with oil then painting the dividers than my idea of dusting over alcohol.