What a beautiful fall weekend we have experienced. I hope you were able to go out and enjoy it. I made soap this past week and I planned to enter it in the Great Cakes Soap Works Making Contest. They were making cyclone swirl soap. This is basically made by placing various colors into a pitcher and pouring it into the mold. Sometimes it helps the effect if you shake your hand while pouring the soap into the mold. I tried this and it was fantastic!!! Then Stupidity Set In. I covered the top with plastic, which stuck and as I pulled it off, it took away the design. Here is the design left after I messed up the top and after the cut and the soap set up:
I experimented with this to see what it looked like if I took a thin layer off the top of the soap. The cyclone effect was there.
I sliced off a couple edges that were not perfect. Aren't these ends pretty?
With the extra soap batter I made a re-batch soap type. I add little shredded pieces of soap that I have from previous batches of soaps. This is ugly pieces, end pieces, and edges from trimming, etc. I mix these pieces into the batter real well, then I can add and additional colors or fragrance. In this case, I left the fragrance as an Irish Spring copy. It smells heavenly in the house with a predominant lavender fragrance. I used the left over colors from the cyclone soap experiment and swirled them in. If you add the shreds after you place the soap into the mold, gaps can form around the edges. It only makes the soap less attractive, but it is still good soap. Even when you mix the shreds in well, you can get gaps or holes in the soap.
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| The front two are examples of gaps at the edges. |
I put
pink in most everything I make. There are probably some pink shreds, but I didn't make pink soap.
Enjoy your week!!! Dawnie
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| Annie modeling a newly made scarf. I enhanced the lips. |
I experimented with this to see what it looked like if I took a thin layer off the top of the soap. The cyclone effect was there. 
I sliced off a couple edges that were not perfect. Aren't these ends pretty?
With the extra soap batter I made a re-batch soap type. I add little shredded pieces of soap that I have from previous batches of soaps. This is ugly pieces, end pieces, and edges from trimming, etc. I mix these pieces into the batter real well, then I can add and additional colors or fragrance. In this case, I left the fragrance as an Irish Spring copy. It smells heavenly in the house with a predominant lavender fragrance. I used the left over colors from the cyclone soap experiment and swirled them in. If you add the shreds after you place the soap into the mold, gaps can form around the edges. It only makes the soap less attractive, but it is still good soap. Even when you mix the shreds in well, you can get gaps or holes in the soap. 
I put pink in most everything I make. There are probably some pink shreds, but I didn't make pink soap.
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