Sunday, November 16, 2014

Combing techniques - soap challenge

Soap Challenge Combing technique - cut bars

I've been working on my soap combing techniques as part of the Great Cake Soapworks Soap Challenge. This soap was one of my first attempts at a combing type swirl. The whole batch is scented with Brambleberry's "Ginger Ale"  fragrance oil, which smells amazing and gives you all the time in the world to play with it.  I prepared 5 different colors of mica plus some titanium dioxide.


I separated my batch in half and poured the colored soap differently into each mold:

 
Then I swirled, using a simple comb made with cardboard and bamboo skewers.

1st mold:
Combing technique - CP soap in mold


2nd mold:
Combing technique - cold-process soap in mold

 
I liked the swirls of the first soap better.  Here is a closer look at it:

Combing technique soap challenge - in mold




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4 comments:

  1. UnknownFebruary 25, 2016 at 6:48 PM

    Beautiful!

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  2. UnknownFebruary 27, 2016 at 7:58 PM

    Hi Jelena!

    This is absolutely beautiful!!

    Can you tell me about the swirling techniques you used? I know you used the comb across the the mold. Did you use any other swirling techniques other than the one comb stroke?

    Thank you!!

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    1. JelenaFebruary 27, 2016 at 8:21 PM

      Actually, there were several comb strokes, in different directions. :) You can see more details on how this is done in my previous post. I didn't use any other technique to get the pattern. This technique is very similar to that used in paper marbling.

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