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!

Comments

  1. Wow! Very nice Amy. I love the combination of colors that you used. Very fresh looking.

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  2. That turned out gorgeous! Love the colors you chose...and with the white in there, it reminds me of a style of painting, but I can't think of the word! I can smell it from here..Energy is one of my favorites from BB, too. Great job!!:)

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  3. Amazing Milla....just gorgeous, love those warm and cool colors together and your swirls are so lovely, great job!

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  4. Very pretty warm orange colors and the contrast is great!.

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  5. Wow, so amazing looking, Milla! Love everything about this soap!

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  6. Love it! Looks very similar to mine with the layers reversed. I think you got more contrast in your swirls though. Looks great!

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  7. Yours is so lovely! Your mica line is perfect too! I love love the color combo!

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  8. Gorgeous, Milla! I love the colors and the swirls look fantastic. BB's Energy is such a great FO!

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  9. Very pretty and I love the sparkly top. BB's Energy is one of my favorites, and excellent choice for the season!

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  10. I love your colour combination and your ITP is perfection! Fantastic soap!

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  11. Wow! You got some really great ITP swirls! Great colors too!

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  12. Those are some beautiful swirls in there- love the contrast and the dark perfect line!

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  13. Milla this came out really pretty. It has a bit of a pointallism painting look to it as well. Pretty. :-D

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  14. That turned out really well. Love the colors.

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  15. Your super fun colors really pop right out and make this soap catch the eye. Great job!

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  16. Thank you so much everybody! I'm sorry if I haven't responded to each person, but I really appreciate the comments. This is one of those soaps that I just keep grabbing, sniffing and staring at the swirls. I did notice the infamous TD crackle, never had that before, but it goes with it I guess. These also feel very slick too. fun!

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