I have a few pretties to share with you.
Tie Dye Trance.
This is my first five-colour swirl: purple, red, pink, orange, and blue. Making these was a whirl of arms and jugs and spoons, mixing and colouring and scenting and pouring and swirling and pouring and swirling and pouring and swirling before the soap traced too thick to swirl. I got there in the end!
The scent is a mix of Australian sandalwood essential oil, clary sage essential oil,and lime essential oil. A simple three-oil blend, but delicious and smoky and yum.
Do you like the printed translucent paper I found for the labels? Flowers and butterflies. Welcome to the hippie zone.
This photo shows some of the variety of patterns in the swirl:
Lavender Castiles
A simple, classic soap: 100% olive oil castile, with lavender essential oil and a little violet colouring. I did a deep water discount making these, using a 45% lye solution, so it traced up fast and has set hard as rocks with a gorgeous dense texture. I love these Milky Way molds – dinos, celtic knots, and celtic dragons. The hearts are from a silicone muffin tray.
Lettuce
Another silicone muffin tray. This is made with the Lettuce fragrance oil from Brambleberry, which doesn’t smell at all like lettuce, but is a fresh clean green-floral fragrance. Too yellow; I’m disappointed in the colouring, but otherwise the soap is lovely. Oils are olive, palm, canola, coconut, and mango butter.
Dreamsicle
Orange and mandarin essential oil in the top orange layer, and a mix of two vanilla fragrance oils in the bottom (Relaxing and Vanilla Select, both from Brambleberry). Reminiscent of sweet dripping popsicles. The vanilla FOs naturally discolour to brown, which is why the somewhat mottled appearance of the bottom layer. This is a straight olive castile also.
And here’s a little prize I’m donating to a local competition. A clary sage blend, ginger orange, maple-oat, castile dragons, and raspberry ripple. I hope the winner likes it.
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Oh Yum. I did some rebatching once but I’m still too worried about having caustic around to do anything more complicated. I love those celtic soap molds, Lauredhel; lucky competition winner.