Lin
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These are pretty much my first colored soaps. I used celery infusion and cocoa powder for a christmas soap, but these are oxides and my first swirls. Its funny, I didn't even have an interest in colors or swirls very much before joining this forum. But now I want tons of oxides and mica and to experiment with so much!
Here's my avocado soap. It was supposed to be green, black, and white but the black really looks dark green instead. Makes me sad but my bf says he likes it better than if it had been black, says it goes better because it resembles the color of the avocado peel. I wanted the contrast though between the green, black, and white. And it looked black before pouring! Oh well. Drop swirl.
They're still really soft, I couldn't wait any longer to cut though! So I still need to clean up the edges.
Here's my greek yogurt and cucumber soap. Did the same swirl all the way through. Its even softer than the avocado soap, so I'm giving it some more time. I used a lot of liquids in these soaps to get the most out of my water swaps. There's also some ash on the top, I sprayed with alcohol and I steamed the top after 24 hours but I've still got some more ash! I had difficulty using the iron here though for steaming. And I had wanted the colors more vivid, but not bad for first try. I really love the hydrated chromium green. The picture doesn't do it justice.
And this one also didn't turn out as planned. Its basil soap, I split the recipe in half and half of it the oils were infused with basil to turn them green, and in the other half I used some TD and added strained out basil for exfoliation. I did an in the pot swirl. But the green seemed to bleed into the white a lot, and the swirl was not what I expected with the green part dominating the center somehow.
Here's my avocado soap. It was supposed to be green, black, and white but the black really looks dark green instead. Makes me sad but my bf says he likes it better than if it had been black, says it goes better because it resembles the color of the avocado peel. I wanted the contrast though between the green, black, and white. And it looked black before pouring! Oh well. Drop swirl.
They're still really soft, I couldn't wait any longer to cut though! So I still need to clean up the edges.
Here's my greek yogurt and cucumber soap. Did the same swirl all the way through. Its even softer than the avocado soap, so I'm giving it some more time. I used a lot of liquids in these soaps to get the most out of my water swaps. There's also some ash on the top, I sprayed with alcohol and I steamed the top after 24 hours but I've still got some more ash! I had difficulty using the iron here though for steaming. And I had wanted the colors more vivid, but not bad for first try. I really love the hydrated chromium green. The picture doesn't do it justice.
And this one also didn't turn out as planned. Its basil soap, I split the recipe in half and half of it the oils were infused with basil to turn them green, and in the other half I used some TD and added strained out basil for exfoliation. I did an in the pot swirl. But the green seemed to bleed into the white a lot, and the swirl was not what I expected with the green part dominating the center somehow.
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