Aqua Thin Line

 

Althoug it’s the most busy time of the year for me ( and a lot of other soapers, I guess…), I was able to make it for the November month Soap Challenge Club – as always hosted by Amy Warden at Great Cake Soapwork. I only had time to make this soap, but I’ll be back on it as soon as I catch my breath, sometime after christmas….

The thin line technique is such a wonderfull technique regardless if you choose the advanced technique or not – this technique is new for me so I tryed to keep thing as simple as posible; 4 colours, peppermint EO and my standard recipe so I know what to expect. I used a small slabmold (yild 4 bars of soap)!

This is my entry for this months soap challenge:

 

 

I totally forgot to take pictures while working with the squeeeze bottle –  Well this is how the soap turned out, wet in the mold.

 

 

 

 

Thank you Amy, I sure had fun with this soap 🙂

 

 

Thank you for stopping by – good luck all 😊

 

Yvonne

Rainy day soap

First of all, Amy Warden at Great Cake Soapworks is back with new challenges – that is good news! Thank you, Amy, I sure missed those challenges, althoug I missed some due to get my webshop up running. Again thank you, this is soooo fun 🤗

For september the Soap Challenge Club are making the mini drop swirl soap. It’s a beautiful technique, and a real challenge to achieve those lovely (rain) drops.

Some of you may have seen the pic I posted on fb… I had a «small» accident in the making of my first soap. My work lamp fell into the newly poured soap/mold! The soaptop was ruined, and everything was a mess, and so was my hair….

Well, a new soap was made on a rainy day (how great is that, having your inspiration right outside the window). The idea was raindrops on a pond, for the soaptop – inside ombre with raindrops, all in the same colour. This was my first time making the ombre and drops technique, and I had so much fun making this soap (except when my work lamp «kissed» the soap…)! As you can see I got a little ash on top of the soap, and also some spots inside the, but all in all I’m happy how the soap turned out.

Ombre: add the colour (mica) little by little and pour soap in the mold between each time.

I kept the design simple so I used my standard soap recipe with a little adjustment, I replaced olive oli with sunflower oil: Sheabutter, Cocoabutter, sunflower oil and coconut oil : 10%, 10%, 50%, 30% . I soaped at 38,5 degrees celsius. As you can see on pictures below I used two sizes drinking straw – that also gave different sizes on the raindrops! Rings «on water» was made by using different size bottle caps  (fragrance oils). Colour is «Preppy Blue» from Mad Micas, and the soap is scented with a blend of Peppermint/Rosemary. My soapmold is from Café de Savon.

This is my entry:

 

 

 

 

In the making….

 

 

Result!

 

 

 

 

My tools!

 

 

 

I wish everyone good luck & thank you for stopping by!

 

Yvonne 😊

 

 

Soap Cottage

In the soap challenge club we are making soap dough for this month’s  soap challenge. Tatsiana Serko, of Creative Soap by Steso, is our teacher and Amy Warden at Great Cake Soapwork is our host.

I had great fun playing around in the making of this «Soap Cottage» – in my soap cottage 😊

The part that wasn’t fun was all the time I spend in my car driving around looking for oils for this dough project. It was just impossible for me to get what was recomended, so I ended up using some of my scented porcelian soaps with kaolin cley – probably not the best, but better than driving around like crazy, and  in all kind of shops asking for oils that no one eaven had heard of….

My soap dough wasn’t anything near polymer cley or like Tatsiana’s dough, but I must say I did behave quite well – with that said it was far from perfect!

In the making and the coloring of the dough I used a rolling pin and added mica while rolling. It was just like making puff pastry, roll, add mica and fold the dough until a nice even result.

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This is not the first time I’m playing with soap dough, but I have always used my soap «as is» in all my soap dough project. In may 2015 the soap challenge club was making soap dessert cakes, and some of my cakes had soap dough elements as part of the  soap. I used a zester to grind my soaps and it worked well.

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This is my entry – my Soap Cottage 🍃🌺🍃

 

 

 

Building a cottage…

 

Tools & dough

 

 

Happy soaping

Yvonne

 

Secret Feather Swirl

It’s been a while since my last soap challenge so I’m happy to join you for this months’s challenge. We are making the sceret feather swirl, and as usual I look forward to see a lot of  beautiful soaps from you guys. Big thx to Amy Warden at Great Cake Soapwork for another fun challenge.

So, I ended up making three soaps, and the learning was good during the whole process – learning by doing, no exceptions! The picturetaking was a bit difficult. The colors did not come out as they really are. I just can’t get the beautiful green colors to come throug in the pictures….

I had problems with ash inside my soapbars (for the first two batches) so I raised the temperature of my oils/lyewater for this soap, I also warmed my mold to keep my soap from cooling down when pouring. It seemed like a good idea 😉

I didn’t use any dividers – see pics on how I solved it

Soaping at 39 degrees celcius with my std recipe:

10% Sheabutter

10% Cocoabutter

30% Coconut oil

50% Olive oil

5% Superfat

Fragrance: Rosemery EO

This is my entry for this month:

 

 

 

 

Pouring technique: In order to «hold the soapline together» I poured the soap sideways using a squeeze nozzel bottle. I also used the SN bottle ( light green ) along the sides to help the line to stay in place.

 

Colors and tools: Lettuce Entertain & Tahitian Teal from Mad Oils. Squeeze nozzle bottle. The hanger is…. a hanger, with a drinking straw.

 

Moodboard

 

 

Happy Soaping

Yvonne

 

Tiffany Heart Soap

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here so now I just have to share one of my soaps made last year. My Tiffany Heart Soap is one of my soap for the 2017 jewlery soap line. The soap is decorated with gold leaf and scented with BB’s Apricot Freesia FO.

This is a soap where color and scent have found each other. The fragrance is a upbeat blend of fruit and floral so it fits this soap so well.

Enjoy 😊

 

 

Happy & Safe Soaping

 

Yvonne

 

Cosmic Wawe

We are doing the Cosmic Wawe in november Soap Challenge Club, hosted by Amy Warden at Great Cake Soapworks. This is a fun and beautiful technique created by the talented Tatsiana Serko. Tatsiana is also this months guest teacher. Thank you once more for sharing of your knowledge, you really are a true artist!

What is a cosmic wawe? This is what I found on the internet: A cosmic wawe is thought to be a space-quake, produced by something big like a supernova, a black hole or the collision of two neutron stars. It’s similar to what happens when something large is dropped into the ocean – it sends a wawe of water across, making tidal wawe and tsunamis. This is only a theory and has yet to be occure to be recorded.

With that in mind I knew I had to go to outer space to see if I could find a cosmic wawe, or a least some inspiration for colors….

As usual I went along with my standard recipe – sometime it’s best to stick to what you know so there won’t be any surprise…. My recipe is a little heavy on hard oils, but the soapbatch behaved well and so did my FO, Grapefruit Bellini, no discoloration or speeding up trace so there was enough time to pour the soap. It’s a 5 color soap and the cobber mica really gave a nice effect – sorry it doesn’t show in my photos.

The soap was placed in layered stripes so I gave the mold a couple of spinnings to achive the «wawe».

I was thinking of doing the CPOP, but the soap ended up in my insulation box over night.

This is my Cosmic Wawe

 

 

 

Colors & FO

 

My inspiration photo is this beautiful galaxy and it’s colors.

 

 

Happy Soaping!

 

Yvonne

Powderose Soap

Inspired by last monhs soap challenge and winner I just had to try out the beautiful rosepiping technique. It was not as difficult as I thought, just a lot of work!

Kudos to Snoblove!

 

Happy Soaping

Yvonne

 

Piping Soap Tutorial

Another fun challenge, and the best of all – we got to play with different type of piping techniques. I have done a lot of (cake) piping but I have never used Russian piping tips, so I decided to try them for this soap challenge. I chose to do roses with two different rose nozzels. I also used a smal leaf nozzel and a tiny calligraphy nozzel.  The idea was to make a «basket» and fill it with roses. I guess I got carryed away with the flowers, and leaf – well, I had to use all the soap in my pipingbags, or….?

I used a knitting needle to bend the rose petals so they wouldn’t all look the same.

This is my first attempt at soap piping and I must say I enjoyed «slow soaping» for a change.

I used my standard soap recipe and added some beeswax. Soaping at 38 degrees celcius to thick trace, then poured the soap in my pipingbag and put them to rest for aprox one hour. As recomended I didn’t use any fragrance in the flowers. The «basket» is scented with BB’s Black Amber And Lavender FO.

Olive oil 50%

Coconut oil 30%

Sheabutter 10%

Cocoabutter 10%

10 gr beeswax

superfat 5 %

 

 

My entry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Soaping!

Yvonne

 

 

Dancing Funnel

It’s been a while since my last soap challenge so I’m really happy to participate this month, and most of all – this is a great technique witch I will be using in my future soapmaking – and of course, I will practise some more….

I took a chance and used my usual oil recipes for this soap, althoug it’s a bit heavy on the hard oils!  I was soaping at low temperature,  35 degrees Celsius, and hand stirring for aprox 30-35 minutes. With no experience with this metod of soapmaking, I took «the spoon test» to see if the oils/lye/water had reached the point of  emulsion. This was a bit out of my comfortzone, working without my stickblender, but I think this way of making soap is a really nice way to work – thumbs up & thanks for the opportunity in this challenge 👍🏼

I managed to keep a light trace during the whole prosess and the soap was wrapped and OP for an hour and then left «to sleep»over night. The FO is just beautiful and acted well during the whole prosess. As you can see the gold mica «got into» some of the browne parts – but, overall I’m happy with the result!

Here is my entry:

 

 

 

This is my first soap, all natural colored with Bamboo Charcoal/Indigo and a EO blend of citrus too keep the trace under control! My rehearsal soap was so pretty, but the next one… What happend with the Indigo, it turned out browne and then slightly green….?

 

Happy Soaping

Yvonne

Orange blossom & no teardrop soap

This was supposed to be my entry for this month’s soap challenge, but I had problems uploading my pic so I didn’t participate….

Well, to be honest, I didn’t manage to get that teardrop soap I was hoping for so I guess it’s ok. Today I found out I was able to uploade a small picture, don’t know why…

The colors and fragrance, Orange Blossom, is beautiful together. Faux funnel pour on top of the soap.

 

 

Happy Soaping

 

Yvonne 😊