Hi this is Teri Endsley with Tree Marie Soapworks. I am going to show you today
my process in making Dancing Funnel Soap and I'm forcing glycerin rivers
by having higher water content and using a heating pad. This soap right here I made
a long time ago and I noticed I got glycerin rivers in the dancing funnel
and in the hanger swirl ones. And I took really good notes back then so I use the
same recipe in those, so I'm using that recipe today. These are my colorants from
Elements Bath and Body. This is how I mix my colorants. I always take this extra
step because I don't like getting those little clumps of color and I probably
wouldn't have to do it for this mica but the oxides sometimes are really
clumpy so it just really helps, so there was not those little specks in there.
I use a palette knife and a sheet of plexiglass and that color was Pretty in
Pink and this one is just Brown Oxide which I like this Brown Oxide because
it's a darker brown. It's a really pretty brown. And I used my little
squeeze bottle it has olive oil in it.
And this takes a bit of time here, but it just is one extra step to really ensure
that you're not going to have those specks
and here I'm preparing my three squeeze bottles. I'm using a liner and these I
believe are twelve ounce squeeze bottles. And then I'm using the tips of the
pipette because I'm using a log mold it takes a little bit to get into the
corners and you can't use just a regular squeeze bottle. It just doesn't work it's
too short, so I'm using scotch tape and using these four extensions. And here's
my lye water and I'm putting sodium lactate in it one teaspoon per pound of
oils and I always strain my lye solution; I usually don't need to but I always
like to be on the safe side in case there's any clumps. And here's my
liquid oils going to into my other oils and my fragrance oil which in this case
was Autumn Fig Harvest from Bramble Berry. And here's my lye water.
This recipe is just made from olive oil, castor oil and, coconut oil for your
oils. I'll post a link to where I found it.
And the white I diluted in water
and it really didn't come out good.
I thought it would do better for this recipe, but I normally dilute with
oil and I'm probably not going to do that with water anymore. I like the oil
method better. It just seems like it's hard to mix in when it's in water. And I
decided to add a little more Titanium Dioxide to the pink later on
I love this stick blender. It's it's from a company in Canada. You can set the
speed on it, on top, and it's really nice. And it fits in a small cup. and it
doesn't seem to trap air like some of them do. It's heavy duty.
This is my heating pad. And I have a swivel under it but I don't really think
it was necessary. It's an extra-large heating pad and I have it set to high
temperature. And here we go. In the this just goes on and on for a long time so
if you get bored you can fast-forward to the end. It took me a long time
to pour this batch, of course with any funnel pour, it's time-consuming,
but it's really worth it. One thing I did notice is I started off,
with bigger dots and on the top it seemed like they were smaller and the
reason why was my batter got thick and it was so hard to squeeze that
they just got smaller because I didn't squeeze as much. This fragrance I
used Autumn Fig Harvest, it did thicken a bit on me last time but I thought it
actually made the little bubbles thicker
that way, so I just used that scent again. But my hands were kind of regretting it
after a while because it just it was really hard. I ended up cutting the tips
off of these bottles toward the very end so I could get more out at a time. But
you can see if I hadn't pressed this to go through glycerin rivers it would have
turned out quite a bit different or if I would use less water.
For this one I used 36 percent water. I have to look it up. In the ones, I
showed at the beginning I used 33% I believe, and I still got glycerin rivers.
Now, I usually use 20 to 25% water so I don't really get glycerin rivers anymore.
Okay here I'm I'm covering it with another heating pad and I have
that set on high. And believe it or not I had these heating pads on for six hours
They have auto shut off so I had to turn
them back on after two hours and I wasn't sure if anything was happening so,
I'm glad to see here when I'm cutting that I did get glycerin rivers.
This first part you can see where they were a little smaller as I got up
higher. These these little dots are small, but you can see there's glycerin
rivers. But then this next cut you can see where this is cutting off the
bottom the part that usually is just your outline color, the brown; you can see
where they were better size, at least I liked him more... at that size. And
they showed off the glycerin rivers better at that size.
The first time I put this through, I had the wire uneven
where the you can level it and I had it one up on one side so, it was uneven so
I fixed it. But I had to plane it again anyway.
So I got glycerin rivers. And I really like them. And here I'm just planning off the
sides
I use that block at the end so don't cut my fingers, and also sometimes it
chunks off at the bottom so that helps keep it together. And this, well
both those my husband made for me. This one we made it out of a piece of wood
we got when we were in Japan a really nice and smooth wood; I don't know what
kind of wood it is. And the wire cutter I'm using is from the slicer. I have the
other kind but it doesn't work so well when you're not on the edge of the table
and when I do video, I'm not in the edge of the table. So I used this one. I like
the three, the three metal ones came out the best, in my opinion. This is one
of my favorite parts. I love to bevel soap. I enjoy it.
Although sometimes there's a lot of it to do, so I'm not so excited about it, but
I do love it.
I was impressed with how the pink came out, because my first one, I used
used Titanium Dioxide in it as well when I made that dancing funnel soap in the
beginning, and it didn't come out. The glycerin rivers were
much better in the white than the pink. But these are pretty neat and actually
they might have been better than the white.
So there they are...
Yeah, I like the pink better than the white. And here they are... And this is the
first time I use my nikon camera and I shot in RAW, I've never done that before,
but I think it came out much better than the regular JPEG mode so here it is.