This was my first attempt at using a divider to make a swirl in the log mold, and I thought for sure that I'd botched it terribly because of my inability to leave well enough alone, lol. I messed with it and swirled a couple too many times, so it turned out more marbled than swirly, but I'm not going to gripe.
Sloppy, lol, drips of soap everywhere:
Really hard to make out the color because the flash on my phone doesn't play well with that area of the kitchen, but it's a really dark alkanet purple:
I'll get pics under good light and with the real camera as soon as I'm sure it's safe to handle, I (along with swirling it too much) unmolded and cut it a bit early, so it's still a little softer than I want to mess with.
There are a few tiny little spots of liquid inside the soap, and I thought for sure that it was lye at first. I finally got the nerve up to try the tongue test thing, and it didn't do anything that felt remotely like a "zap" on the tongue, it just tasted like utter and complete crap and made my breath smell like lavender, ugh. I'm guessing/hoping it's just because I cut early, and that it'll incorporate into the soap as it sits.
Anyway, that's my not-quite swirl.
Sloppy, lol, drips of soap everywhere:
Really hard to make out the color because the flash on my phone doesn't play well with that area of the kitchen, but it's a really dark alkanet purple:
I'll get pics under good light and with the real camera as soon as I'm sure it's safe to handle, I (along with swirling it too much) unmolded and cut it a bit early, so it's still a little softer than I want to mess with.
There are a few tiny little spots of liquid inside the soap, and I thought for sure that it was lye at first. I finally got the nerve up to try the tongue test thing, and it didn't do anything that felt remotely like a "zap" on the tongue, it just tasted like utter and complete crap and made my breath smell like lavender, ugh. I'm guessing/hoping it's just because I cut early, and that it'll incorporate into the soap as it sits.
Anyway, that's my not-quite swirl.