Soap making video for the Soap Challenge Club December 2019 - Black Tie Affair in the regular category - making soap with black and white with one accent colour.
Please always follow safety requirements while making soap! Sodium/Potassium hydroxide is caustic and can cause burns on skin or on mucous membranes!
Merry Christmas and wish you a happy new year!
This is my first attempt for this challenge and failed miserably! I aimed to make cosmic circles making a unique pattern from that but because my soap trace was obviously too thin for them to hold. This video also shows two ways you can cut the soap - Horizontally for a wood grain look and vertically for a completely different look. Which one do you like better? Let me know in the comments!
The colourants I used in this video were:
White- Kaolin Clay
Blue - Indigo powder
Black - Activated charcoal
Essential oil blend: Lavender, lemon and cedarwood
Time links to the video:
0:22 Mixing of lye solution and oils
1:13 Colouring of the white, black and blue portion
1:52 In the pot swirl
2:42 Pour of the soap
3:30 Unmoulding of the soap
3:53 Cutting of soap - Horizontally
4:26 Cutting of soap - Vertically
5:35 Finished photos
I actually like how the soap turned out - just not fit for the soap challenge. What do you think? Let me know in the comments. Thank you Amy for organising such a challenge again.For more information about the Soap Challenge Club: soapchallengeclub.com/
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My name is Janice and I am a pharmacist working in Hong Kong. The Scraftworks is the short form for "Soap Craftworks" and that this channel is dedicated to show my creations and other home crafts. Soap making for me is a combination of art and science - I love it!
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