Teach Soap

Beautiful soap, carolynp! Very nice work on the painting. Congrats!

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My first linear swirl inspired by Soap Queens Blog mine didn't go all through but I adore the look. Its blackberry sage scent.

Looks good to me KomfyKate!

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Irena
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I think they look great.... we can only improve by trying. The scent sounds like a winner to me!

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Susie
Sometimes A Mistake is so much fun, You just have to do it again!

Very beautiful!

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Debbie

Very nice color combination! Looks good to me too!

KomfyKate, those are gorgeous swirls! Looks like a good match with the scent, too :3

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Beautiful, KomfyKate! I watched that video too and hope my swirls turn out as well as yours!

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Linda
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Beautiful swirls, KomfyKate! Blackberry Sage sounds wonderful!

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Thanks ladies. I had alot of fun with this one. I plan on doing a darker green red and white scented with santa spruce next to make gifts for the fam for Christmas. Best hobby ever my fellow soapies LOL.

Lessons learned from this week's soaping session, my first try at a mantra swirl. Despite the mistakes, it was fun to cut open the soap 2 days later and see the results.

1. If you're doing a divider, make sure it's really, really secured when you pour. (I had that thing wedged tight in my silicone mold, but soap is apparently stronger than that. XD) Pouring both halves at once would have helped, but I thought that thing was pretty well fixed...

2. Mantra swirl doesn't seem to work well when your soap is the texture of custard. I suppose I'm going to have to up my water content to do this kinda stuff, but... but... I don't want to have to take more time to cure!


The dreaded Kiss of the Plastic Wrap. Other than that, I thought the swooshes on top looked neat, at least. XD;


You can actually sorta see the physical traces of the swirl attempt, but I think the soap was too thick to blend well. The scent is orange and ginger, so the lighter side is the actual uncolored soap; the darker side is colored with a bit of annatto-infused oil :3

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I think it looks nice!

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Debbie

no matter what the results it is a great soap. I love the color! Great attempt and keep up the learning - it is soooo much fun.

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Susie
Sometimes A Mistake is so much fun, You just have to do it again!

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