Pink Snow & Frozen Roses

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It’s time for a new Soap Challenge hosted by Amy Warden At Great Cake Soapwork. For this challenge we are going to make a CP soap with a winter wonderland theme. As usual I’m looking forward to see a lot of beautiful soaps this month. Good luck all!

Blue is an quite obvious color in a winter wonderland theme, so with that in mind I started my research for an alternative option – also, I have been making a lot of blue soaps lately….

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Liquid: The soap must have elements of snow, quite fun since it’s snowing outside, a lot…. I desided to use snow as my liquid –  so, out in the garden with my bucket and shovel….

Color: Have you ever heard of pink snow? ( see picture on my moodboard ). Watermelon snow is snow that is reddish or pink in color, and it can have a smell similar to a fresh watermelon. This type of snow is common during the summer in alpine and coastal polar regions, such as the Sierra Nevada of California. Watermelon snow, also called snow algae, pink snow, red snow, or blood snow, is Chlamydomonas nivalis, a species of green algae containing a secondary red carotenoid pigment (astaxanthin) in addition to chlorophyll. Unlike most species of fresh-water algae, it is cryophilic (cold-loving) and thrives in freezing water ( Wikipedia ). So, now you know why my soap is pink!

Snow: For the snow on top of my soap I used Maldon Sea Salt, and to get that beautiful sparkling snow I added a little bling-bling mica.

For the snow crystals on the rosebuds: I coated part of them with eggwhites and then rolled them in sugar.

For the «snowflakes» inside the bar I made a small batch of soap and while it still was soft I rolled it out and let it dry over night.

FO: BB’s Herbal Essence.

This month I’m going for a «less is more» kind of soap. It’s a sweet bright soap with snow crystals inside the bar. On top, spakling snow and frozen rosebuds.

My entry

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In the mold: the bottom design ( silicone mat ) is collored with 3 Martini Olives mica from MO

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«Ice crystals»

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Colors & Snow

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Snow as liquide

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To avoid draging the top decor throug my soap I cut it sideways

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My moodboard and end result

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An other option….

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Happy soaping

Yvonne

 

 

17 kommentarer til “Pink Snow & Frozen Roses”

  2. Yvonne, this soap is so pretty, I especially love the color on top with the flower, and I loved learning something completely new about snow! I had a hard time finding where to comment but did find it eventually. Beautiful 🙂

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  3. Your creative mind is simply fascinating!! Who besides you would know there was such a thing as watermelon snow!!! Such a beautiful soap! Love the rolled soap for the mini snowflakes inside, and the frosty roses are just gorgeous!

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    • I’m glad you liked it, Amy. My soap cottage is almost buried in snow. Here and there you can see frozen rosebuds trying to keep their head above the snow, looking at this I knew I had to inklude «frozen winter roses» in this soap. Blue was a «no go» for me this month so I had to come up with an alternative – pink 😊

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  6. I love where your incredibly creative mind leads you, Yvonne! These are exquisite. The only color of snow I have ever seen is white (and of course the yellow snow were always told NOT TO EAT as children!!). I may have to put seeing pink snow on my Bucket List! Fantastic job!

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  7. Yvonne, this is such an elegant and beautiful bar of soap! And I love the backstory – how wonderful to learn of pink snow. Those roses are just breathtaking!

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