FlybyStardancer
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Easter soaps! (New cut/unmolded pics added!)
First off, is the whipped soaps I made for my nieces. Palm, coconut, olive, shea, and castor. Will try this technique again, though not for the bulk of my recipes. Colored with yellow mica, put streaks of red-orange mica along the inside of the ziplock I used as a piping bag. Scented with NG Fruity Rings (which does smell exactly like Fruit Loops OOB).
Second is the soap for my friends' party. It was meant to be zombie eggs. However, the color didn't come out as I intended (I used WSP green mica with a touch of ultra marine lavender that I hoped would make a zombie-ish green, and then streaked the inside of the bag with more red-orange mica). Instead of a nice zombie with streaks, it turned this flesh-color... And it was IMPOSSIBLE to pipe into my egg molds.
so I quickly grabbed another mold (thankfully lined weeks earlier) and squirted the bag of soap batter in, and then spooned in the batter that was in some of the eggs and along the bottom of the container I had used to hold the piping bag while I filled it. So now it's zombie snack bar soap.
Not only was the color wrong, but it traced soooper fast. I did half OO, and used only a little each of palm, CO, shea, and castor. (16%, 20%, 10%, and 4% respectively.) I had let the lyewater cool for hours, and heated the oils up in the microwave just enough to melt the hard oils, and then let it cool back down as much as I dared. It probably only took about a minute to get to light trace, and by the time I was done mixing in the colors and FO, it was at a med-thick trace. When I got it in the final mold, it was definitely thick trace.
Also, after these two soaps I'm certain that having long sleeves is not as much protection as it's supposed to be. Even with trying to tuck the ends into my gloves, I still ended up with soap batter on my wrists for BOTH batches. :/
First off, is the whipped soaps I made for my nieces. Palm, coconut, olive, shea, and castor. Will try this technique again, though not for the bulk of my recipes. Colored with yellow mica, put streaks of red-orange mica along the inside of the ziplock I used as a piping bag. Scented with NG Fruity Rings (which does smell exactly like Fruit Loops OOB).
Second is the soap for my friends' party. It was meant to be zombie eggs. However, the color didn't come out as I intended (I used WSP green mica with a touch of ultra marine lavender that I hoped would make a zombie-ish green, and then streaked the inside of the bag with more red-orange mica). Instead of a nice zombie with streaks, it turned this flesh-color... And it was IMPOSSIBLE to pipe into my egg molds.
so I quickly grabbed another mold (thankfully lined weeks earlier) and squirted the bag of soap batter in, and then spooned in the batter that was in some of the eggs and along the bottom of the container I had used to hold the piping bag while I filled it. So now it's zombie snack bar soap.Not only was the color wrong, but it traced soooper fast. I did half OO, and used only a little each of palm, CO, shea, and castor. (16%, 20%, 10%, and 4% respectively.) I had let the lyewater cool for hours, and heated the oils up in the microwave just enough to melt the hard oils, and then let it cool back down as much as I dared. It probably only took about a minute to get to light trace, and by the time I was done mixing in the colors and FO, it was at a med-thick trace. When I got it in the final mold, it was definitely thick trace.
Also, after these two soaps I'm certain that having long sleeves is not as much protection as it's supposed to be. Even with trying to tuck the ends into my gloves, I still ended up with soap batter on my wrists for BOTH batches. :/
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