SeaWolfe and I went to a Soap Collective Meetup on Sat. It was a lot of fun and I did my first Peacock Swirl. Maybe she will post hers too. Everyone's turned out beatiful. LOL, even if mine is Superfatted!!
LOL, I prepared all my oils and lye instead of using their recipe. Well I was tired when I mixed everything after my Friday market and shorted my 50/50 lye solution by 100 grams. Oh well, it was to be 3% superfat, went up a little :roll:Oooooo, perfectly done! You must feel so proud to pull your first one off so incredibly well! I laughed at your Sf comment; did they force you to Sf at 8%?
A mold and tools were available to purchase. Oh no, there was no worry about mine getting to thick. I used 34% Lard, 34% Olive, 17% co, 15% Avocado. I did not want to take a chance of stick blending to much so it stayed very thin. The organizer, John, made a perfect set of tools and mold. He made a wood template to draw the swirl with after raking. Btw this is a perfect recipe for a slow trace. Also forgot to mention I soaped this with a 40% lye concentration because I forgot to add in my extra water. Had bad news at my Friday market and I was not thinking well when I was mixing everythingSo pretty! I love your color choices. Did you use a tool for the second part of this technique or free hand it? Ive never done it before but I've seen it done both ways. I'm guessing you used a tool to make the first drag marks? (otherwise I would think the soap would be too thick by the time the second part rolled around) please enlighten me!
Oops fixed it, it was lard and yes I am going to try the 40% lye concentration again, I thought it would never trace. I do use 40% with castile but had not tried it with some of my other recipesSee, I said 40% lye concentration is slow to trace! No one seems to believe me or newbie on this, but higher lye concentration has been key to our soaps taking eons to trace.
It is perfect. Clean perfect lines and just very well done...and beautiful as well!
Edit, what is the other oil you used...you left one out at 34%.
Love it SeaWolfe, it did not wobble to much even with the side trip to Winco! One other plus to the class we learned how to easily make a chevron pattern...Oh I was just thinking about posting pics! Im so glad you did. And Im glad yours firmed up so nice. I told you it would be fine Just call it a facial bar.
Mine survived being driven about, but it wobbled a bit.
I was SO jealous of Carolyn because she brought her own recipe. The one suggested was like 30% CO, 65% OO, 5% OO - which is fine if I SF at around 8% and let it cure a long long time. But I coveted Carolyns lard!
Heres mine, Ill post cut pics later. I used my silicone slab mold and Johns tools, which worked peachy, but the silicone has been slow to release. This was SO much fun because I havent done a lot of work with colors, it was a fun technique - especially seeing how 9 others turned out as well, it made me work at that sweet spot just before trace (which I really needed), and its so much fun to meet other soapers - especially Carolyn!!
Cani explain exactly what you mean by 40% lye concentration? I am hopelessly useless with maths. On soap calc the water as a % of oils is not what you are talking about with this is it?
Cani explain exactly what you mean by 40% lye concentration? I am hopelessly useless with maths. On soap calc the water as a % of oils is not what you are talking about with this is it?
On the web page you can select 3 different ways to measure your lye. Water as % of oil, Lye concentration and lye to water ratio.
If you select the lye concentration you put in 40%. This means that for 100g of water you have 40g of lye.
Ooops. you are right, Not enough coffee when I typed thatActually for 40 grams of lye you'd have 60 grams of water.
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