Great Cakes Soap Challenge (June Sculpted Layers)

Okay my first attempt was inspired by this pic below

That was a screen shot of it.

It failed terribly.

See soap below...it looked like a cat in this one photo

My second and last try was inspired by this pic below

For both I had used the recipe

Palm oil, coconut oil, lard, olive oil and castor. Did the cpop method.

Bought the Matt's that Claudia suggested.

They were very flimsy for the first one

The second one I doubled it and had card stock in between them with tape because my stapler is a mini.

Here are some pics that I was able to take of them and the process.

Three cut out layers. 1st is the moon in white. 2nd is kitty in black, 3rd is branch in brown.

My colours were TD for the white of the moon. Activated Charcoal with some black oxide for the black kitty. Midnight blue for the sky, Sexy stranger Brown mixed with Olaive Martini green to make a lighter brown branch

These took me days chopping and shredding through a strainer to get small enough white pieces to look like stars. I also added some galactic glitter to it

My hands were covered in soap so I wasn't able to take a pic of my moon but you can see how much white was pulled out my looking at the other mold

Then you see/where I dragged the kitty through. I was getting nervous because my soap was thickening up before I could even put the colour and FO in it

Again I forgot to take a pic of the kitty filled in with black.

I poured the brown on top and ran my branch  card through and realized I had made a mistake. I should have run the card then poured. So I coveted it and made a half # of soap and just dumped some brown in it.

That's it above, yes I was shaking. I got it in the oven at noon at 160* for 2 hours then shut it off. Let it/sit there till 7 and it just plopped out of the mold.

Finishing pics below

Below is the kitty on a branch looking at a wonky-ass moon 😊

Scented with Vetiver Type from BB

Thank you Amy and Claudia for the challenge. I think I will do it again with a much more simpler design,

I always over reach....

Great Cakes Soap Challenge Tear Drop Technique

Let me begin...I was inspired colour wise by a Gothic model.

 Adora Batbrat

BUT....

Ohhh this technique tested my patience!!!!

My first two tries were in the 1501 CC mold.

Used Amy's recipe too.

The first one was the short wide black one

I used all Mad Oils micas

Base was Black Oyster. Then tear drop was Pink Chiffon, Voodoo, Grape Nehi and Peacock.

Scented with Dragons Blood

The second try I used Pink Chiffon as my base colour.

And my tear drop was Tempest, Voodoo, Grape Nehi and Peacock.

I didn't think and scented it with Butt Naked in bed and that caused the base to turn beige.

😢

Two failed batches

I actually got pissed and deleted all the pics because I didn't want to try any more

After a few days passed I thought I'd use my bigger mold from ED.

Scent: Smoke and mirrors

Colours...Wicked for base and the tear drop was pink chiffon, voodoo, tempest, grape nehi and peacock

This is my results...looks more like a Pink Floyd Album cover

I have a crappy camera

So that's my entry..Pink Floyd!!

Blacks

Colours

~Keffiyeh Soap~

My soap was to mimic the Keffiyeh ( Traditional Palestinian Scarf)

I used the 9 bar silicone mold from BB

I'm mixed race and I'm very proud of my Palestinian heritage. My father was born in Hebron, in the West bank.

On to soap..

I ordered olive oil from Palestine and used Samuel Adams Boston lager as my liquid because I live in Massachusetts.

I used coconut oil, palm, olive, shea and mango and cocoa butter

Tussah silk was added to the lye solution.

Arabian Spice was the fragrance for the main batch.

It is from BB also.

I added TD to the soap batter but it only lightened it up a bit.

Below is the lye solution and you can see its dark

After I unmolded it it I sketched it out and my daughter helped carve it and pull out the pieces.

I was stressing that it was still dark and adding black soap to the parts that were carved out, would look like a dirty Keffiyeh.😢😢

I made one more batch with water and brought it to an emulsion only.

Split it in half and used TD in one and black oxide in the other. The black was scented with a sample bottle of Sweet Fig from BB

With a paint brush and the soap just sitting in the silicone mold I began painting the white on. Behind me my daughter was using a dropper it add the black. It took two coats for the white to stick and yes it did have drip marks on the sides. Both white and black. I was able to clean that up the next day.

With both of us working so hard. No pictures were taken of the painting.

Here is the finished pics

I wanted to do a soap with Lizzy Borden or the Salem Witches

But my daughter said, "don't be the creepy you Ma".

The Power of 3 Soap

Why "The Power Of 3" ?

Well because I infused ( separately ) 3 flowers.

Lavender buds, Dried Rose buds and petals and Chamomile in Olive oil

Used 3 powdered milks.

Goats milk, yogurt and buttermilk from (Steph's micas and more)

And used 3 butters in the soap

Shea, Mango and Avacado

3 natural colourants

Non nano Zinc for white

Green tea powdered extract for green from (soaperssupplies)

Strawberry powdered extract(soaperssupplies)

It also has coconut oil, Palm oil and Castor oil

Tussah Silk and SL

33% water to lye solution.

This bar is luxurious, creamy and bubbly.

Nothing but goodness in this soap.

It's not a vibrant white or a bright pink. The green is green but not bright either.

Maybe during the curing time it will pop a bit more, but if not it's okay.

This soap is slamming in goodness

Oh it is scented with "Breath Of God" from (Nurture Soap)

~Slick~ Soap

I made this soap about two weeks ago.

It has..

Coconut oil, Organic Beef Tallow, Olive oil, Castor oil,

Ricebran oil, Cocoa, Shea and Mango butters

It is a 33% water/lye solution

Tussuh Silk, SL, White Kaolin Clay

White is TD, Black is Black Pearl from (Nurture Soap)

Grey is Satin Grey from (Nurture Soap)

Red is Red Vibrance from (Nurture Soap)

Scented with Black Amber Musk from (WSP)

~Phoenix Rimmed Soap~

The stress of knowing this soap challenge was coming up was horrible

So here we go..

My first try using Tatiana's recipe cracked.

I was missing palm kernal oil and subbed it for flakes.

The second try I did the same way but used more soap. It was over an inch thick. 

Above 

is my colours and fragrance. My cake slicer, which worked perfect to slice a few layers off. Using Tatiana's instructions with books inside the mold

The only difference this time, I dropped the super fat to 7 and added 1 oz of vegetable glycerin. I don't know if it helped but I got a few slices and they were very pliable.

Below is the slices in a Pringles can and in the column mold from Bramble Berry.

The Pringles can had a blow out just like popping a can of biscuits open

Here it is unmolded. I did an in the pot swirl for the insides with pale yellow and bright orange but it ended up the colour or a creamcycle😢

The seam worked out well because both edges were white.

After the slice above I just wasn't happy with the way the inside colour came out. So I took a medicine bottles and just pushed down a little to get the circle. Then carved it out with one of my clay tools.

Then made a very small batch of just the red colour from the rim and used a dropper to fill the wholes. Two squeeze fulls were enough per bar.

You can see the pic shows that small pile of dug out soap. It really wasn't much but I'm happy I took that extra step to give it more visual interest.

Finale thoughts and pics...

Thank you Tatsiana and Amy and all the amazingly crazy talented people in this large soap community. You all inspire me 💟

As for this challenge, I am glad its over LOL.

It was fun and not as hard as I hyped myself up to think it was.

Will I do it again? Probably not, but who knows what the future brings.

Here are the final pics. I still do not have a good camera and the soap looks and smells amazeballz in person

GreatCakes February Winter Wonderland Soap Challenfe!!

Gratcakes February's soap challenge

Winter Wonderland

I wanted to do a log cabin in the woods

Below is my sketch and I can't get it to turn the right way because I'm on a tablet

I was going to mold the cabin wall and the green bushes and snow and rolled tiny Snow flakes too.

Here are the colors I used

I used Sexy stranger on a train ( MO) for my brown, I used it again with some 24k gold  mica (WSP) and TD (NS) for the beige. White was made with Super Sparkles mica ( NS) and TD, Green was made with Enchanted Forest (RE) and 3 olive martini (MO),Black was made with Black oyster(MO)

I used dividers to make the color steps ad some milk cartons for the black and white.

And the sky would be made with peacock (MO) and TD

Below are pics of it 

The recipe for this I got free from another soaper who does nice little molded things on top of her soaps.

50% lard, 30% coconut oil, 20% soybean oil.

After squeezing this all into the mold and it was a pain in the butt!!!

I got to pour the snow in then stand it up and pour the sky and pit the snow flakes in too.

After the soap was done I realized that much "molding soap" was harsh and it was going threw the salad shooter quickly!

Start over with same idea but hand pouring!

Using two dividers and thick soap I was able to make the cabin wall and the bush. I still had molded snow flakes left so I used them.

The recipe I used was 25% coconut oil, 25% lard, 20% Olive oil, 15% castor oil and 7.5% Shea and mango butters

SL and Silk was used.

A mix of 3 fragrances

Because I was moving so fast because the soap was thickening up. I didn't take a pic of it till it was in the mold

Below is the top of the soap...I know, how exciting!!😯

And here is my entry pic!!

"Cabin in the woods"

Thank you Amy for all the learning challenges

I hope everyone had fun making their's...

And thank you to the amazing stores that sell all the products we need to makes soap!

MO-Mad Oils

NS-Nurture Soaps

RE- Rustic Escentuals

WSP-Whole Sales Supplies Plus

Fragrances- Aztec International