Soap Challenge Club — soap challenge

Hello purveyors and patrons of all things sudsy!   It's yet another month and another challenge!  This month we are forging into the unknown and yet adventurous waters of the Kiss Pour.  This technique became know through Joanne Watkins who introduced this for the Design Mania Contest.  This technique involved several skill sets including mixing soap batter to a very thin trace, designing a color palette involving several colors, managing two pouring containers while "kissing" the two streams together, and finally, planing, beveling, and displaying this finished product.  The finished product must have defined and obvious feathering without the colors being...

Hello again! The soap challenge for this month was to create a crystal effect utilizing coarse salt.  The soap was required to be made via the cold process method and could be embellished with well-placed cracks and mica to enhance these cracks.  My entry for this month's bonus entry was my first attempt at this technique.  I utilized my 3.5" x 10" loaf mold for this particular bar and then poured the batter 1.25" thick. I colored the salt before placement with rose pearl mica and carefully placed it strategically throughout the loaf mold.  I used the picture below for...

Soap Challenge Entry January 2021! 

Salt Crystal Soap