DNA Challenge Lily of the Valley

 Normal dna swirl

Enhanced dna swirl.  The swirl on the left has additional smaller dna swirls inside the big one.  The one on the right was not changed.

The before the swirl lines.  Used cups, the batter was thin enough to pour fairly small lines.

Thought I would put the bottom in like this.  Never did this before but have seen it.  I will make soap like this in the future.

This is made with Olive, Coconut, Palm, Palm Kernel Flakes, Avocado, Babassu and Camellia Oils.  At trace added Castor and Peach Kernel Oils.

This soap was done in a regular loaf mold.  The colors are from Mad Oils and the fragrance from Brambleberry.  This fragrance works like a dream, no acceleration, lets you work for a long time.

DNA Swirl Challenge

 

This is the soap to be entered in the challenge.  It is made with Narcissist FO from Natures Garden and colored with Mad Oils micas.  Should have included Bazooka Jo as well.  Colors chosen for a feminine perspective with a hint of garden.

After mixing the oils - Olive, Palm, Coconut, Palm Kernel, Babassu, Avocado, Camellia, Castor, Shea Butter and Sunflower- with a 4% super fat and 38% full water ratio, the lines came out pretty good.  I tried to make the swirls here thinner, had to be very patient.  I did not use squirt bottles so the lines are going to be thicker anyway.

I did find during this challenge it was better for the batter to be  close to medium trace for the dna lines to show up.  I had some that were at thinner trace and I hardly saw the helixes.  What is plural for that, here, let me check the dictionary...helices, ok.

So here they are directly after the dna swirls.  I think they look great.

This is how it is before the cut.  Still looks pretty good.

I did not think this would be difficult, there is not a lot of information on the process out there and it turned out to be more difficult than I guessed.  The hardest part I thought was getting the first swirl lines close enough together without making mud or losing definition.  This part, a thinner trace is better. 

I think these look more like lines of fish, which I think are cool.  Soaps with schools of fishies, some bigger than others all swimming along together.

Here are the close up cut pictures of my submission for the DNA Challenge.  Thank you!

There are several other soaps made for this challenge, all fun to do, all with lessons learned.  Here are some pictures:

 Lots of fun!

This one has two dna swirls in it, first the small one then the large one.  Kind of gave the "big" fish some depth.

This is the first one the dna swirl came out where I could plainly see it.  This is the first with the close to medium trace.