Sort of a re-do on the layered natural and white I tried a couple of weeks ago. Made them for a friend who's had a bad week.
Very cool-looking! Instead of holly & berries, I see weirdly shaped animals with long tails on the 2 soaps on the right (they kinda remind me of the flying monkeys from the Wizard Of Oz), and the one on the left looks like a 3-legged animal with a horn growing out of its head. Or maybe I'm just seeing things because I'm hungry and need to go eat something. lol
IrishLass
awesome effect, love it! how did you do the layers/swirls if you don't mind sharing?
Sure. It was easy. For a 13" loaf mold, I started with a single, thick layer of naked soap...about 2/3 of the total volume of soap. Then I poured about 3/4 cup for the green and 1/4 cup for the orange-red mica. Finally, I colored the remaining soap with TD.
On top of the naked soap, I poured a narrow stripe of green down the center, then an orange/red stripe on top of that. As the colored soap started to spread, I built up the sides by pouring stripes of TD colored soap on the outsides of the colored stripes. With the sides shorn up, I poured a final center layer of green on top of the orange....sort of like a green/orange/green sandwich. Finally, I eased the remaining TD colored soap (the remaining 1/3 of the total soap volume) into a top layer.
For the swirl, I slid a hanger down the side and along the bottom to get under the color and pulled up a few times in a curling motion.
Hope that's clear. Thanks for asking.
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