Tuesday, March 11, 2014

2nd Attempt at Drop Swirl


Anybody wants to have a yummy chocolatey bath/shower?

 
Made this yesterday for my second attempt at "drop swirling" for the soap challenge by Amy Warden of Great Cakes Soapworks.  I used my usual basic recipe from Everything Soapmaking Book using Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Palm Oil and Castor Oil.

 
I used  "rich chocolate" fragrance oil for the brown batter and "lemon cake" fragrance oil for the white batter.  I am quite pleased with the result, you can see the brown drop swirling into the yellow base but the white swirl with the brown and yellow is not a very impressive color combination.


Pictures below were taken yesterday after I put the batter in the mold:



I still need a little more practice being a little louder and less mumbling while the video is on.  The videos were taken as I was working on the soap and since I don't do a lot of planning for long beforehand, there's a lot of talking to myself.  Please mute and fast forward as you please.
 
ENJOY!

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6 comments:

  1. That is a very pretty swirl. Good job!

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    1. Thank you Taylor. It felt so much better when the batter really did what was expected. Excited about Majestic Mountain Sage being the sponsor for this challenge. I still have to try your projects.

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  2. Looks great - imagine it smells amazing

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    1. It does smell like chocolate cake in our house. Thank you.

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  3. They turned out beautiful! I love the chocolate and lemon combo, I bet it smells amazing!

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    1. They do smell very good Cee. The hubby came home and said it smells great. The brown is getting darker as well which is what I was hoping for.

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