Rimmed Soap - Soap Challenge Club March 2016

 

Hello, friends,

This is my third Soap Challenge Club and my first time

-        Doing rimmed round and square soap, spin swirl, helix swirl, spider web swirl, modified Taiwan swirl and rebatching

-          Using shredded loofah and pearl powder

-          Struggling with ricing))))

I suppose for most of us it was a real challenge this month as rimmed soap is indeed an advanced technique. And I suppose most of us were very happy to be taught by brilliant teacher and soapmaker Tatsiana Serko (my interview with Tatsiana is here) from Creative Soap by Steso.. But I suppose that we were more happy that Tatsiana was not participating this month and we all normal mortals got a chance to win))))) Tanja, it’s a joke))) You know me)))

So this month I wanted to try both techniques of rim doing: from a batch and one layer. All attempts (I made 5) from the batch were successful and only 6-th from one layer was ok.

Cutter: I and my almost husband made in December modified cutter using tutorial Tatsiana had at her blog. My cutter is wider and longer.. and not that beautiful but I’m very pleased with it. Thank you Tanja. 

 

Recipe: I used different recipes with the same rule – 40% liquid oil, 60% butters.

I used a shoe box as a slab mold and Pringles tubes as round mold both lined with baking paper.

First attempt. Spin Swirl.

I made it unscented as it was recommended… My castor oil was really stinky… so I made only 2 pieces of soap.

 

Second attempt. Spider web swirl.

Hoooo… I wanted to have patchouli scented soap.. so I ended in a heavy trace with ricing… Center of that soap without ricing, as it would not occur when mixing all the time.

Third attempt. Modified Taiwan Swirl.

Very nice one. With loofah. Lots of pictures. Enjoy.

 

Overheated as all my soaps (may be because of the shoe box...)

Slicing

Slicing from both sides

 

Making

Forth attempt. Helix Swirl.

Unfortunately again blue turns into green…

The best part was cutting))) I was horrified))) double rimmed soap))))) some soda ash left unfortunately

Fifth attempt. Taiwan Swirl.

Heavy trace, ricing…

Using pearl powder for the center soap.

The only one successful attempt to make rim from one layer (6-th one) and my entry (finally))))))

 

All the joins.

Some rebatching

UPD: THANK YOU ALL FOR GIVING OR NOT GIVING YOUR VOICE.
I AM REALLY HAPPY

UPD 26.3.2016

Damask Rim is also a winner of Bramble Berry's Facebook Photo of the Week. Thank you