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Butterfly Swirl Soap
This beautiful Butterfly Swirl
is
inspired by the nonpareil paper marbling of old. Four different
tones create wonderfully complex and rich patterns both on top of the
soap and within the bars themselves. It is the perfect recipe for
giving our new swirl tools a whirl.
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Get all the ingredients you need
to make this soap here.
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COLOR PREP: Disperse
1 teaspoon of Aqua Pearl, Fired Up Fuschia and Ultramarine
Violet into 1 tablespoon of liquid oil (we like Sweet
Almond or Sunflower
oils). Disperse two teaspoons of Titanium Dioxide in 2
tablespoons of liquid oil. Prepping your colors in the
beginning will allow you to work quickly and give you more time to work
with your soap. Use the mini
mixer to get all those clumps worked out
smoothly.
FRAGRANCE BLEND: In
a glass container, combine the Lychee Red Tea Fragrance Oil and the
Peppermint 2nd Distilled Essential Oil. Give the mixture a good stir
and then set it aside.
LYE
SAFETY:
Always remember to wear long sleeves, gloves and goggles when working
with lye. If you’ve never made cold process soap before, visit
SoapQueen.tv and watch the episode
on lye safety and the Cold Process Basics Series here.
ONE: Slowly
and carefully add the lye to the water, and stir until clear. Set aside
to cool. If you’d like a harder bar of soap that lasts longer in the
shower, you can add Sodium Lactate to the cooled lye water. Use 1
teaspoon of Sodium
Lactate per pound of oils in the recipe.
TWO:
Melt and combine the Canola, Coconut, Hemp Seed, Palm, Mango and Rice
Bran oils in a large glass container. Once the lye water
and the
oils have cooled to 130 degrees or below (and are ideally within 10
degrees of each other), add the lye water to the oils and stick blend
until thin trace.
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THREE:
Equally split the batter into 5 containers. Then add one colorant per
container at the following rate:
- ½ teaspoon dispersed titanium
dioxide and 1 teaspoon dispersed aqua pearl
- ½ teaspoon dispersed activated
charcoal and 1 teaspoon titanium dioxide
- 1½ teaspoon dispersed titanium
dioxide
- 1½ teaspoon dispersed fired up
fuschia and 1 teaspoon dispersed titanium dioxide
- 2 teaspoons dispersed ultramarine
violet
Stir in the colorant using a whisk or
spoon.
FOUR:
Once
you’ve fully incorporated the
colorant, split the fragrance blend between the five containers and mix
with a whisk or spoon.
FIVE:
Once the fragrance has been fully incorporated, pour each color into
its own condiment bottle. Fill each bottle about halfway (6 oz.) full.
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SIX:
Beginning in the closest left hand corner of the mold, pour the
remaining color in your mixing containers in a diagonal zigzag motion.
Repeat this pattern with each color, layering one color on top of
another and keeping the same order.
SEVEN:
When you have used about half the soap in all five containers, change
your pour
pattern. Begin at the far left hand corner and pour the soap in the
same
diagonal zigzag pattern across the mold to the near right hand
corner. Repeat this process until all the soap in the containers is
gone.
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EIGHT: Insert
a chopstick or dowel into the soap beginning in the near left hand
corner. Drag the tool in a diagonal zigzag pattern to the far
right hand corner.
NINE:
Using the condiment bottles, squirt each color vertically across the
mold. Repeat this pattern layering colors on top of each other in the
same order until the bottles are empty.
TEN:
Using
a chopstick or dowel again,
start in the far left hand corner and make another diagonal zigzag
across the mold to the near left hand corner.
ELEVEN:
Drag the Easy Swirl Tool in a slow and smooth motion from the far side
of
the mold to the near side. Lift it straight up out of the soap, and the
design is done!
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Favorites
for Cold Process Soap
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Energy Fragrance
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Relaxing Fragrance
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Lavender Essential Oil
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