Where can I get interesting columns for a column pour?

[AliOop]

Your Birbs are wonderful, and 4th place in that group is quite an accomplishment!

@dibbles your soap was wonderful, too - big congrats on the Best Technique award!! Added a pic of your soap below so we can enjoy it here, too.

 

[dibbles]

Thank you @AliOop.

 

[earlene]

I have put rubber bands around a mold either side of a column in order to hold it in place/prevent it from sliding one way or another. You need really long rubber bands to put around a bigger mold, but a multiple pack with multiple sizes of rubber bands comes with some really long ones that otherwise I would not have had many opportunities to utilize.

 

[KiwiMoose]

She did. I've actually stuffed some old, fugly soap in the bottle to weigh it down. It works well, but you want to be sure that the soap is wedged in tightly enough that it can't slide out

I have tried dipping a bottle in melted cocoa butter and found that the edge of the bottle was really too thin to effectively hold it in place. Pouring a bit of cocoa butter or beeswax into the bottom of the mold and then setting the bottle in that might work, but I haven't tried it.

I was thinking I would just glue a stone or washer or something equally heavy inside mine. I'd be making the soap today if I didn't have so much gosh-darned marking to do ( over 500 first-year Psych students!!)

Amazing to watch – but: Oooof! STOP THAT SWIRLING! IMHO she terribly overdid these swirls (even carried on while talking that she should stop earlier!). And I find it disappointing how the initial fivefold flower design just wasn't visible/didn't play a role at all in the final look.

I thought the same initially - but the cut soap still looked wonderful.

Issues:
Soap did not fill out the entire mould. I did not have a plan for swirling, and now that it’s CPOPping I have some ideas of how I would have liked to swirl it - TOO LATE!

 

[ResolvableOwl]

@KiwiMoose I can only repeat myself – don't overdo swirling! If it were up to me, stop just at the state of the first photo.