Hi this is Teri from Tree Marine Soapworks. Today I'm going to be showing you
this soap. It's a variation on Taiwan Circling Swirl. So let's get started with
the colors. First we have a half a teaspoon of Groovy Green Mica and this
is used at a rate of one teaspoon per pound of oils and it gives you a light
green color. And that's what I was going for for this tutorial today. And I'm
using a palette knife and a sheet of plexiglass to mix my colors. Next we have
1/4 of a teaspoon and 1/8 of a teaspoon of Rainforest Green Mica you can see
I'm just diluting it with a little bit of olive oil, just enough to get it wet
Next we have 1/4 of a teaspoon of Ravishing Red Mica and 1/16 of a
teaspoon of Purple Reign Mica. A lot of people ask me why I mix my colors this
way. For one, it's to get all the little specks of colorant out, but also I have an
art background and I had this palette knife from college, and I just love using
it. It's just one of my favorite tools. next we have 1/2 a teaspoon of Purple
Reign Mica and just a .15cc scoop of Ultramarine Blue. Oxides and
Ultramarines can be a little more difficult to get the specs out of. That's
why this one I took a little bit more care to get all the specks out of it.
All these colorants that I'm using today are from Elements Bath and Body.
Next I have 1/4 of a teaspoon of Smooth Coconut Carbon also known as Activated
Charcoal. And I just mixed this in order to use to darken some of the other
colors that I used, so I'm not gonna use the whole thing, I just wanted a little
for darkening. Next we're measuring fragrance. Today I'm using Cranberry
Salsa It's from Rustic Escentuals and it's a
really nice fragrance. It behaves well and cold process soap. And here I already
melted my oils and I'm straining my lye solution into my oils. Today I'm soaping
at 90 degrees but I usually soap anywhere from 85 to 95 degrees.
Okay, I weighed this bowl before I started so I know the amount. And now
I'm going to weigh the bowl and the contents in the bowl and then I will subtract off
the weight of the bowl, so I'll have the weight of my batter.
I had planned to divide it up by percentages, so I figure out all my
percentages before I stick blend, so that I don't have to work against time, so now
I know how much I'm gonna pour off individually. I have just stick blended
this until emulsion and now I'm ready to separate the batter according to the
percentage that I've figured out earlier. So this first one is for the light green
and it's 25% of the batter. And then we have 15% of the batter for the white
batter, and 20% of the batter for the dark green. Next, we have 15% of the
batter for the red purple. And at last we have 25% of the batter for the blue
purple
Okay, now it's time to add our colorants to our separated batter so for the white,
that's the only one I haven't covered yet. The white I used 1 teaspoon plus a
little bit of dispersed Titanium Dioxide and I always have that pre dispersed
and I disperse that at a rate of one part titanium dioxide to 3 parts of oil
and I always use olive oil. And now we just mix it all in and make sure
everything's evenly disbursed.
Okay, now it's time to add the fragrance. And I just figured out the percentages
of fragrance ahead of time, so I know what I'm adding to each one of them, and
you don't have to do this this way again, it's up to you you can eyeball it
if you want. It'll come out just fine but I always use the exact amount of
grams.
Okay, next get your mold ready, and also we're going to be putting two of these
colors into squeeze bottles. So I'm getting my liner's ready and putting
them in the squeeze bottles, and for this one it would be the white and the pink
that are going to go in the squeeze bottles. For this one you want a fairly
light trace and in these. You don't want a heavy tracer it just won't move like
it should to make the swirls.
In my last video that was Taiwan Circling Swirl, it was my video Technique
number 3, I showed the difference between a skewer in a skinny stick, that
was wider than a skewer or a chopstick. For this one I decided to do it even
bigger, the skinny stick was a little bit less
than 1/4 of an inch. This popsicle stick is 3/8 of an inch, and I think
I might even go bigger to a tongue depressor which is 5/8 of an inch.
Okay now the batter is ready, and first I'm going to be pouring the pink and
white batter into the squeeze bottles.
Now I'm just situating the colors where I want them. And I hold the
dividers down while I pour so it doesn't seep underneath to the other side.
And just add a little at a time and then I'm just adding and squeezing in the other
color is just wherever I want them.
And I think next time I do this I'm going to put little extensions on the
squeeze bottles, so that I can get down deeper because the white
and the pink didn't go down that far, and you'll see when I split the soap and a
half that the whites in pinks didn't get as far down in. So the
top layer looks good but then the middle's not so much. It's got more of
just the green in purple.
Okay, now it's time to remove the dividers, and then I just add a little
bit more color at the ends word that I didn't get it before.
Go ahead and tap down your mole to release any air bubbles. And now it's
time to start swirling. So you insert your popsicle stick parallel to the
bottom on top of the mold and just do your swirl. This is the fun part! I like
the results of using an even bigger stick for this time. So I think I'm gonna
go go ahead and use the tongue depressor next time; I want to try it. I might make
the lines a little further apart, but I think it'll really drag and it'll look
pretty cool. I'm not crazy about how the soap looks at the end, especially when
you go around in this next step you turn your stick 90 degrees
and go around to the mold. I just only needed to do it twice than this one
because of the whiter stick. But I'm not crazy about how it looks in the end so
I'm gonna try something different next time.
I covered this soap and I put it through gel and I leave it undisturbed for 48
hours. Some places don't have to do that but I found here, in Indiana it's just
too humid and I think the humidity causes soda ash if you uncover it
earlier, so for me it works to leave it cover it up for two days. And now it's
time to split the loaf horizontally. I use this wire soap cutter from Bramble
Berry and you see I had cardboard underneath there. I have two pieces that
I use just to make it a little higher to make that proper thickness that I want.
And I have to cut a little off the top so I can fit it in my boxes. So I have these
two. That's the top and then there's the middle, that's the more green and purple
one. And I was going to cut these through both at the same time but I accidentally
left one of my cardboard pieces in there, so I had to cut this... see it wouldn't go
through there; I had to cut it and then then mark it again and cut the bottom
layer.
And now all that's left is beveling the soap. And I just used an old-fashioned
vegetable peeler for this.
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