Teach Soap

i like it! very pretty.

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~Shell

That is just gorgeous! Now there's ANOTHER thing I want to try lol

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Pauline
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Founding member & admin of Melt & Pour Soap Crafters.

Thank you for all your compliments!
I'm practicing patience right now! I'm waiting to pour the next layer!

I thought I would give everyone a good laugh!

Here's a picture of what I call the ketchup bottle. I'm melting a honey, gold mica clear MP. I keep it warm in the ketchup bottle on the stove before I swirl.

I took it off to swirl and I decided to shake it!!!!
Well, still exploring this technique with my no patience personality, I forgot to put my finger over the nozzle!

Now my kitchen walls get to be washed as I scrub the gold mica soap off the ceiling!

I am beginning to really like this technique!

I will post pictures after this batch is done! Here's the imfamous ketchup bottle!
einnoc

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"Soap is to the body what laughter is to the soul!"

Yikes on the gold wall bath. Reminds me of the time I forgot to put the lid on the blender. Great times LOL

Can't wait to see your next one

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I think we've all had some of those moments! I've even had turnip greens in the toaster - don't ask - you DON'T want to know!

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Linda
I know the voices in my head aren't real, but they sure have some great ideas!

WOW! ljm1180 that sounds like some story!

Part 2 - What is frustrating about this whole process, for someone with no patience, is I can't see what the cut soap is going to look like first!

As I squeezed the last of the gold MP out of the ketchup bottle, the top blew off! Clumps of soap flew out! It is very important to keep the ketchup bottle soap liquid!

I have really learned a lot doing this!

I'm not really sure this works any better than just swirling. It's a lot messier for sure.

I'm still waiting!

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"Soap is to the body what laughter is to the soul!"

Sounds like a blast...literally!!

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Rachel
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Trying and learning lead us to that special soap. Experience is so key to the process and so is experimentation. Otherwise we'd all be making white soap like our great grandmothers did.

I try to draw out the soaps I make. I visualize it first or for something so new, or complicated I'd draw it on paper first then go for it!

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~bytheSEAsoap~ Mella bythesea, bythesea, bythebeautiful sea

海の皂

Gee! I just wrote a long reply and it disappeared!

Here's the soap! This Honey soap didn't come out as well as the Raspberry. I let the layers cool more. They seem to blend bettter when the soap is hotter. I didn't have to be patient after all!

I wish someone else would try this so we could compare notes & ideas.

Mella, Thank you. Your ideas are certainly good suggestions. I need to draw my soaps before. Writing everything down before is just as important as writing everything down I did afterwards.

Anyway, here's the soap. Today is rainy & overcast; so not a good picture day - but love the rain!

einnoc

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"Soap is to the body what laughter is to the soul!"

Still pretty but I think you're right - you get a much nicer effect when the base soap is a little hotter when you squirt! I will give it a try at some stage in the next couple of days as I think it's just such a pretty idea!
PS I forgot to put a finger over the end once when shaking tomato sauce (Ketchup) and it was a lot harder to clean up than soap lol! Isn't it amazing how far it goes???

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PurpleMolly,
It sure is! Yes, please give it a try!
Thanks,
einnoc

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Hey einnoc, that's a pretty cool technique you have going on there. I agree that the first one reminds me of peppermint I think it looks delicious. Keep up the good work. Learning a lot here.

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Joey

I did give it a go but tried it with a smaller mould (not the loaf one). You can't really see the effect unfortunately ...I only did it in the layer below the middle red layer. It felt weird to be doing it!! I ended up with a few pockets of air but was pleased with the results! I'm going to give it a go next in a loaf

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It looks like cake!

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.