Soap making video for the Soap Challenge Club November 2019 - Soap Curls in the Advanced category - making soap curls fully embeded into the soap.
Please always follow safety requirements while making soap! Sodium/Potassium hydroxide is caustic and can cause burns on skin or on mucous membranes!
This was my first attempt for the soap curl challenge where I made my soap curls that are also used for my second attempts too. I made two sets of soaps to create the soap curls where I have used the soap recipe Amy has provided us in her soap tutorial. I made one soap with two layers - red layer and green layer and the other soap I made was a marbled soap using pink and uncoloured soap. Some great tips for making soap curls is to:
- Let the soap go through gel phase
- Do not use sodium lactate
- Adjust the blade of the planer for the thickness of the curls
- Use a skewer for thinner curls/use a pen for bigger curls
- Unmould and curl the soap early on before the soap hardens!
Time links to the video:
0:13 Mixing of lye solution and oils
0:43 Colouring of the green and red soap
1:01 Pouring of the red and green soap
1:14 Colouring of the pink soap
1:24 Scooping of the pink and uncoloured soap
1:48 Adjusting soap planer
2:00 Curling of soap curls
2:12 Making of the first half base soap
3:03 In the pot swirl for the base soap
3:11 Pouring of the base soap
3:31 Inserting of soap curls
4:01 Making of second half base soap
4:25 Pouring of second half soap
5:27 Cleaning up of soap
5:40 Cutting of soap
6:11 Finished look and photos
The colourants I used in this video were:
White- kaolin clay
Pink- Pink clay
Red- Red clay
Green- Spirulina (Avocado oil and Hemp oil)
Essential oil blend: Eucalyptus, Peppermint, tea tree and lavender
I made another attempt and submitted that for the entry for the month because I didn't think this was pretty enough. The curls were not thick enough and the contrast between the colours isn't enough. What do you think? Check out the video for my final entry to the Soap Challenge:
• Soap Challenge Club | ...
Thank you Amy for organising such a challenge again. For more information about the Soap Challenge Club: soapchallengeclub.com/
I am a soap hobbist so I don't buy my materials in large batches. I love shopping at iherb for my oils and essential oils. You may get a 5% discount through my link below:
iherb.co/ByvfKa1
Or applying the discount code at the shopping cart: AKV0278
Direct links to the products:
Lavender: iherb.co/cmna7qw
Tea tree: iherb.co/riTyr4i
Eucalyptus: iherb.co/2tZKrAC
Peppermint: iherb.co/Zig3N7V
Spirulina: iherb.co/cSBwyXk
Red clay:iherb.co/in7gs8r
Avocado oil: iherb.co/J5FBUhs
*Disclosure: I only recommend products I would use myself and all opinions expressed here are our own. This post may contain affiliate links that at no additional cost to you, I may earn a small commission.
Please don't forget to like and subscribe!
SUBSCRIBE to my channel for more videos!
/ @thescraftworks
New to my channel?
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!
Find me on:
instagram@thescraftworks
thescraftworks@gmail.com
Music: www.bensound.com
My favourite lye calculator: soapee.com/calculator
Essential oils calculator: eocalc.com
#soapchallengeclub #soapmaking #coldprocessoap #soapcurls