Soap making video for the Soap Challenge Club January 2020 - Landscape Designs in the regular category - limit of 4 or less elements.
Please always follow safety requirements while making soap! Sodium/Potassium hydroxide is caustic and can cause burns on skin or on mucous membranes!
This is my first and only attempt for this challenge. I have been so busy this month and was lazy for a complicated design. The design I came up with is the beach sea wave design, although simple, it has two techniques I’ve never tried before. (Pointy layers and cosmic wave)
The colourants I used in this video were:
White- titanium dioxide
Blue - indigo powder, blue clay and activated charcoal
Grey - Activated charcoal
Essential oil blend: Eucalyptus and peppermint
Time links to the video:
0:22 Mixing of lye solution and oils
0:46 Colouring of the sand portion
1:12 Pouring of the sand portion
1:37 Colouring of the white and blue portion of the sea
2:09 Texturing of the sand portion
2:28 In the pot swirl of the sea portion
2:40 Pouring of the sea portion
3:08 Colouring of the grey sky portion
3:22 Pouring of the sky (creating the waves)
4:09 Cutting of the soap
4:37 Finished photos
The waves came through in the design! I am quite happy about the final design. What do you think? Let me know in the comments.
But then somehow the top layer of the soap turned out to be a such different texture to the rest of the soap - it was quite hard and slightly crumbly. I am not sure what has happened, let me know if you do!
Thank you Amy for organising such a challenge again.For more information about the Soap Challenge Club: soapchallengeclub.com/
Thank you for Belinda teaching us as a guest teacher! Please check her out: loveyoursuds.com
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