ResolvableOwl
Notorious Lyear
The “entry thread” for my early 2022 to-do list. Posting nice pics of soaps to be chuffed about, once they're presentable. Regardelss if they have or haven't fulfilled their actual objective.
I won't start with the lard/vanilla/ZCS lollipop since it'll get some more weeks to eventually do something noteworthy in terms of discolouring.
Meanwhile, here is the Titanic Wave Cliff.
From bottom to top: ¼ plain batter | ¼ batter + caramel food colouring + actiavated charcoal (warm “rich black”, but next time, I'll increase the caramel even further) | ½ batter + TD pre-dispersed in glycerol.
Finally, I gave it a hanger swirl. Without much of a concept, but IMHO it came out quite decent. My imagination sees a Hokusai-style surge approaching a steep coast (or an iceberg?) on a stormy day around 1912, recorded on a long yellowed b/w photograph.
“Titanic” because I have added what I thought was a titanic amount of titanium dioxide to the top layer, but it “sunk”: for one, the top layer is for some reason darker than the uncoloured bottom layer (what, then, should be the point of TD as a colour pigment???). And then, the TD didn't help the least to form glycerin rivers.
I cranked up water to 28% lye concentration, and put that kitten-love soap on a heating pad at 70°C for 24 hours. I even used nearly the same recipe as @KiwiMoose (except that I dropped the 5% avocado oil, and lifted rice bran oil instead). It was intensely gelling, and I let it cool as slowly as possible (average 4°C per hour) – but still not the faintest trace of glycerin rivers
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Detail view:
The non-performance of the TD really surprised me. I have specifically bought new stuff in cosmetic quality. Have I got another crappy stuff? Looking very closely, I see that the TD has clumped – I've extra carefully pre-dispersed it in glycerol – somehow these droplets didn't like to be broken up?
Anyway, I just found out that the TD is indeed easily water-dispersible. So, it seems that this was another defeat in my quest for glycerin rivers, but this is likely not the end of the story yet…
I won't start with the lard/vanilla/ZCS lollipop since it'll get some more weeks to eventually do something noteworthy in terms of discolouring.
Meanwhile, here is the Titanic Wave Cliff.
From bottom to top: ¼ plain batter | ¼ batter + caramel food colouring + actiavated charcoal (warm “rich black”, but next time, I'll increase the caramel even further) | ½ batter + TD pre-dispersed in glycerol.
Finally, I gave it a hanger swirl. Without much of a concept, but IMHO it came out quite decent. My imagination sees a Hokusai-style surge approaching a steep coast (or an iceberg?) on a stormy day around 1912, recorded on a long yellowed b/w photograph.
“Titanic” because I have added what I thought was a titanic amount of titanium dioxide to the top layer, but it “sunk”: for one, the top layer is for some reason darker than the uncoloured bottom layer (what, then, should be the point of TD as a colour pigment???). And then, the TD didn't help the least to form glycerin rivers.
I cranked up water to 28% lye concentration, and put that kitten-love soap on a heating pad at 70°C for 24 hours. I even used nearly the same recipe as @KiwiMoose (except that I dropped the 5% avocado oil, and lifted rice bran oil instead). It was intensely gelling, and I let it cool as slowly as possible (average 4°C per hour) – but still not the faintest trace of glycerin rivers
.Detail view:
The non-performance of the TD really surprised me. I have specifically bought new stuff in cosmetic quality. Have I got another crappy stuff? Looking very closely, I see that the TD has clumped – I've extra carefully pre-dispersed it in glycerol – somehow these droplets didn't like to be broken up?
Anyway, I just found out that the TD is indeed easily water-dispersible. So, it seems that this was another defeat in my quest for glycerin rivers, but this is likely not the end of the story yet…
). The white for obvious reasons. The black was a reaction to the 
re: B&W soap!! Today’s 
black with use of caramel. Soap, photos, clothing just not as eye catching when it’s not a black black.
Loving the challenge thread link.
