Amy's Soap Challenge 2013 - Elemental Swirl

I was actually a little nervous to try the next soap challenge that Amy posted.  This one is called an elemental swirl.  Amy demonstates how to make it here.  Basically it's a cool layer and a warm layer of soap separated by a mica line.  I've never swirled this many colors before so I wanted to see if I could do it.  The most important thing for me was to make sure my recipe was a slow mover and to use a very well behaved fragrance oil.  I used Brambleberry's Energy fragrance oil since I find that it does not accelerate trace.  I just love this fragrance.  Yum!

I chose blue, green and white for the bottom and neon orange, neon yellow and white for the top.  It's not something I would ever try on my own, but it was great to see what it would look like and best of all my husband likes it!  My soap behaved perfectly and I actually think everything went very smoothly.  I also tried a new recipe without cocoa butter.  My experiment was to see if it was similar to my cocoa butter soap since I didn't stray very far from my favorite numbers in soapcalc.  Sometimes I cringe when I use my expensive cocoa butter in soap!

As usual I made videos of the making and cutting of it.  Nothing too exciting and the lighting wasn't perfect, but you'll get the idea of how I made it.  Making and watching the videos helps me improve on my soaping skills.  I finally didn't overblend my soap!

If you would like to see what everyone else made you can find it here on the link up page.

I looked on Amy's blog and it appears that next week is mica swirl tops.  I can't wait to try that one!

Thanks for looking and happy soaping!