How lovely is this Cold Processed Soap? Tanya C has shared her Recipe with us, so why not make this luscious, feminine Soap, designed to celebrate Mother's Day.
This soap has a creamy base colour with a pink and mauve swirl.
Method:
- Add silk fibre to water and sprinkle caustic soda on top of silk carefully! Follow all safety procedures for mixing lye solution. Silk will dissolve as the lye dissolves; stir occasionally. Allow to cool to 30 degrees.
- Add TD powder to either oils or aloe juice depending on whether it is liquid or oil dispersible. Bring oils to 30 degrees Celsius. I soaped a little cooler to help slow trace down a bit. I add my aloe juice to my oils before mixing in the lye solution (just a personal preference, and may help keep the batter a lighter tone in the finished product).
- Follow instructions for an ITP swirl. I used about 1 cupful of traced soap batter for each of my two colours - colouring one 15 drops pink brites and the other with 15 drops pink and 5 drops blue brites.
- I used a Nizzy 12 bar divider mould and after pouring in the soap batter I waited until it had reached a thick trace then swirled top of soap with a chopstick to get the texture in the pic. Then place dividers and cover for gel.
Note: Most Florals do accelerate trace to some extent, so if you are inexperienced, use full water content.
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