Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Tri-colour swirl


The next weekend, I tried the swirl technique again.  i made the classic, Olive, Coconut and Palm oil base for the oils, and I used rain water for the lye mixture.  I divided the batch of soap equally into 3 Pyrex measuring cups.  
I coloured one blue, one purple, and left the last one uncoloured.  The scent I chose was Dreamweaver fragrance oil, one that I won as a prize at the Handcrafted Soapmakers Guild conference.  I thought the colours would make it dream like.  I also had blue left over from last weeks blueberry soap, so I used it here.  
I poured the soap into the juice cans, alternating the colour each time. 
I got some interesting results.  
I poured until all the measuring cups were empty.  
The next day I cut the soaps, and was very pleased with the results.  
I love how this is turning out, only one problem, I'm running out of orange juice cans!  






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