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My husband was looking at news this morning and saw this. Calgary, Alberta got snow dumped on them this morning and the bus driver had a sense of humor :)
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That is gorgeous! Swirl envy...swirl envy. :mrgreen:

It looks like a triple secret feather swirl and I love the purple. Do you mind if I ask what colorant you used?
 
It will be my pleasure, Miss Hazel. :) Since this is a Christmas thread, consider this to be an early Christmas present from me to you (and I guess to everyone else who sees this as well! lol):

For the purple swirl, I used 1/2 cup of soap batter (it was a small 1.2 lb. sample batch, afterall), and equal amounts of BB's Fired up Fuschia and BB's Ultra Violet Blue (1/8 tsp. each), plus 1/32 tsp. of BB's bamboo charcoal to deepen it a little.

If you have a set of those little measuring spoons that measures in dashes, pinches and smidgens, it translates to 1 dash each of the Fuschia and UV Blue, and one smidgen of the charcoal.

I mixed the colorants up beforehand in a little prep bowl with some glycerin before adding to my 1/2 cup of swirling batter.

For bigger batches, keep to the same ratios of color to batter, just increase the amounts accordingly.

Merry Early Christmas!
IrishLass :)

Edited to add: Oh, by the way, I didn't intentionally do a secret feather swirl. It just happened to come out looking that way. It was actually my rendition of what I like to call an Ione hanger swirl (name after the soaper who inspired it).
 
And a very Merry Christmas to you! Thank you for sharing how you made the color. I don't have those colorants but I looked on BB and I have some micas which are similar in hue. I'll give them a try. Fortunately, I do have a set of measuring spoons with the dash, pinch, etc.

Oh, by the way, I didn't intentionally do a secret feather swirl. It just happened to come out looking that way. It was actually my rendition of what I like to call an Ione hanger swirl (name after the soaper who inspired it).

I knew there was a hanger involved with this in some way. :lol:
 
I never did find the Ione hanger swirl, went looking a long time ago. Beautiful Soap :clap:.
 
Oh, you won't find the Ione swirl by googling the term. It's actually my own little nickname for it. There's a soaper named Ione who has a YouTube channel called Eve'sGardenSoaps whose swirls are simply gorgeous to me. In the following video, Ione demonstrates her hanger swirl technique. It's so simple, and I just love how delicate and flowery her swirls come out with it. I watched very carefully how she maneuvered her hanger, and I followed the same swirling pattern with my own hanger in my (above) Holiday Sparkle soap:

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IrishLass :)
 
IrishLass, what beautiful soap! I love everything about it. Seems like whenever I do hangar swirls my batter gets too thick. I also think I'm afraid to work the hangar too much, but after watching Ione's video I see I should be doing much than I am.
Thanks for sharing!
 
Great video! I really like her presence, I have yet to master the hanger swirl so I will be giving this a try. I was always afraid to use the metal hangers so that helps too. :D
 
Thanks IrishLass, would never have found it, I think I remember reading about Iones swirl Cherry Blossom soap and tried to find it. Its something similar to how use the hanger.
 
13 weeks to go.
Remembering -This little piggy, Oscar, who we had to get put to sleep this week.:sad: Possum, the guinea pig is missing him too.

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