@dibbles suggested using a double layer of your appliqué plastic, taped together. Would that work?
My "fancy swirling tool" is a tongue-depressor with an end cut flat to evenly scrape the bottom (left two soaps show the bottom, and I planed the tops off my soaps). I used it for the swirl in the pics, but because it pulls so much, I only went around the edge twice (soap made prior to challenge). I really love the wider swirl for back and forth, but I'll probably be using a popsicle-stick or thinner for going around the edges three times. A lot depends on your batter as far as how much any swirling tool pulls though, and mine have been thicker than I'd like so far.
You are a woman after my own heart!I see, so the corrugation (if that's a word? haha) is on the inside, not on the outside edges? Even if it won't make ripples, it does sound a bit thick, esp. if you are working with a tall & skinny mold that has so little room to pour between dividers to begin with. A regular width loaf mold might not be too bad with thicker dividers though.
I didn't want to buy dividers since I wasn't sure if this was a technique that would make it into regular soaping rotation for me. So, I cut up a cracker box to make thin cardboard dividers for my TCS attempt. I wrapped them in plastic packing tape and theoretically could have used them again, had I not been too lazy to clean them up after use.
Thanks for the info. After reading both your and AliOop's answers I am going to purchase some plastic that is thicker and make something that will be durable and I won't have to make any more as I like the looks of these bars. I am getting bored waiting for my purchases to come in, the worst has been from the place in Oregon and it wasn't their fault at all. My package made13 trips to get from their place in Oregon to my house! Oregon to Seattle, then to another place in Seattle 2 times, then to Kent WA, then back to Seattle 1 more time then To Dea Moines IA, bounced around there 2X. then 2 trips around Chicago then 1 more trip around Chicago, then to our distribution center in WI then finally to the P.O. in my town and sat there 2 days then finally to my house! I have never kept track of packages but I have had to the entire month of Jan. The guy I bought my Soap Cutter from sent me grips over a week ago, they still have not arrived. I send stuff to my kids in Europe and it gets there faster!
I was actually planning on doing the opposite! I have thought about doing it your way, and know I will because I like the way these soaps turn out....anyhow how your and everybody else's turns out, this will be my first attempt so I don't have any expectations other than not spilling the colors all over the place and breaking the fancy twirling tool!
So you know how you get batter on your arm, but you can't stop to get it off, because you are making your challenge soap, and decide to make an extra bit of batter for a pull-through, but you forget - AGAIN! - to halve the radius when calculating the amount, so you end up with enough batter to also fill the slab mold, and now you are trying to time all three for pulling and swirling and circling, so you end up with a burn on your arm, but you are happy because you had fun, and just maybe all the soaps turned out ok, except for the one muddy corner of the slab, and you have to not lick the bowl that looks like fudge on dulce de lece, but is really soap? Yup, that was me tonight!
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My problem is that I no longer have a single-wire cutter, nor a log splitter. So that first block is cut with a pastry blade using a miter box. It still comes out trapezoidal. I can use the first wire on my loaf cutter to even up the edge, but it wastes so much soap, and my bars are not equal sizes.
DH really doesn't mind if I buy anything, but I have to also convince myself to add one more thing to the soap cabinets. All four of them).
You are so welcome
I will give it a go. Thank you
That's why I always put a post it note over the oven controls! "Soap in Oven" works every time.
I used corrugated plastic... a yard sale sign... for my divider. They worked well. I just hot glued them to the end pieces and plopped in the mold. It was cool when I cleaned them they came unglued and were easy to clean and was able to use them again for my second try. I actually made them a little taller than my mold so when I pulled them out my mold was somewhat filled and I didn’t waste a lot of soap either! I just scraped excess off and plopped it into individual silicone molds.
?? Do you mean the entry thread. It will be created on the 18th.
Don't rush me!
Thanks
I really do want to eat that. Here's my vote for the Best One Sentence Post Monthly Challenge!So you know how you get batter on your arm, but you can't stop to get it off, because you are making your challenge soap, and decide to make an extra bit of batter for a pull-through, but you forget - AGAIN! - to halve the radius when calculating the amount, so you end up with enough batter to also fill the slab mold, and now you are trying to time all three for pulling and swirling and circling, so you end up with a burn on your arm, but you are happy because you had fun, and just maybe all the soaps turned out ok, except for the one muddy corner of the slab, and you have to not lick the bowl that looks like fudge on dulce de lece, but is really soap? Yup, that was me tonight!
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