These turned out perfectly - so thrilled!

[tincanac]

very very grin-like face right now!

 

[Tabitha]

Those are perfect & MUCH harder than they look! What scent did you use?

 

[krissy]

WOW!!! how cool are those!!

 

[tincanac]

Thanks Tab

I used something called Forest Fruits from Funwithsoap (Its a South African Company) - it's delicious like a cherry Pineapple with coconut - if that makes any sense - the only other way I could describe the scent is a tropical daiquiri or a singapore slinger ....if you're into cocktails.

BTW - I was just looking at your posts on body butters - is it possible to make body butter with shea butter or cocoa butter and ricebran oil? How do you do that?

 

[tincanac]

Thanks Krissy as well -

I e-learned the layering technique from Anne-marie at SoapQueen.com. It took a couple of tries to get it perfect (the layers were resisting the merge and tended to seperate ) - I then realised that I had to wait less than the 20 minutes between layers as suggested on the site, and pour a little hotter

 

[Tabitha]

As long as you mist each layer heabvily w/ rubbing alcohol & pour your next layer before the alcohol evaporates, they should stick fine. Alcohol acts as a glue w/ M&P.

I make my body butters 3 parts sheae & 1 part oil of your choice. Coco butter is hard so if you add cocoa butter you will need to increase the oil content.

 

[Guest]

Your soap is to die for gorgeous , very nice work

Kitn

 

[tincanac]

tks again Tab

 

[tincanac]

and thank you Kitn

My cat just had baby cats and three of them look like your dancing cat!

 

[Melodee]

You should be thrilled with yourself!! They're great - good job!

Melodee

 

[Soap-Goddess]

Oh My! they are absolutely gorgeous :shock:
Kudos and pats on the back to you

Might I ask what kind of colorants you used?

 

[Guest]

I made m/p for years and never could do the layers like that. Great job.

 

[Saltysteele]

those are friggin awesome, Tin!! Wow! those colors are glow-in-the-dark awesome!!

 

[tincanac]

Thanks everyone

Strangely enough - I bought a set of primary colour powder concentrate from Funwithsoap . I blended the colours to make the orange, green and purple and I added zinc oxide to all the colours (cos I read that it is a UV inhibitor). We'll have to see if this makes the colour stay as true. Unfortunately I cannot find non-bleeding colour here in South Africa, this is my way around it.

 

[Bubbles Galore]

I'm not surprised that you're pleased. Those soaps are fabulous! Well done. :wink:

 

[tincanac]

tks bubbles galore!

 

[Bnky]

Your soap is soooo colorful, I love it!

 

[tincanac]

thank you bnky! there were a lot of fun to make!

 

[twilightluver]

amazing!! Gorgeous!!!

 

[CarmenJean]

This is fan-blooming-tastic!! I've been wanting to do this for aaaaaaaaages! Now I have the space, I might do so. You're right tho - colours are HUGELY important. I'd better have a looksee what I have. Well done ... VERY well done!!