Well Saturday is fast becoming my soap day! And this time my hubby joined in too!
This was made by my hubby (M) - he used clear glycerine soap with Ocean FO and sweet almond oil added (half was coloured blue). He poured the blue base, stuck in large tubes and straws (to make holes) and then poured clear glycerine around them. Once set, he removed the tubes and straws and poured more blue into the holes and to make a top slice. He's not quite happy with it as the tubes can't be seen very clearly - I think it was a matter of just using a darker blue for the central bits. Anyways, here are the pics.
In between making my main soap (pics below), I made these - we spent an hour or more at the local DIY store where we got white plastic tubing and these lovely little gingerbread cookie cutters. So I made these using the cookie cutters (goat's milk and honey M&P scented with Bailey's Cream FO and added sweet almond oil) they didn't work out exactly right as there were supposed to be three layers but I think I left the first one harden too long before I added the leftover from the cut out (that or it simply didn't stick at all - probs should have trimmed it and made it more of an embed) - but no matter, I trimmed it off and it smells good!
Finally, this was my main soap. I used a square beaker type of tupperware, cut the white plastic tubing into three and placed these in the mould (on a thin layer of goat's milk M&P to secure them), then poured Goat's Milk M&P around the empty tubes (scented with Passionfruit & Pink Grapefruit FO and added Sweet Almond Oil). Then, once set, I took the tubes out, melted 40g of clear M&P per tube cavity, added the FO to each and coloured one orange, one fuschia and one purple - then as I made each, I poured these into the cavities. Once it was all set, I cut it all into three slices (though I cannot cut straight to save my life, I need a way to do that better!).
I'm not sure the purple is non-bleed (hoping it is) and I'm not entirely happy that there's not a huge colour difference between the orange and the fuschia colours. I think it'd also look great in a blue, turquoise & green colourway.
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Turns out the purple is not a non-bleed colour and only one day later, is already bleeding into the white. Oh well, it still smells lovely and works fine.