Saturday, November 14, 2015

Soap Challenge Skinny Shimmy




The Skinny Shimmy, this month's challenge in the Amy Warden Challenge.  This soap is scented with as Citrus Mint.  I used Spearmint, Grapefruit and Orange 10x essential oils.

The batter stayed liquid through most.  I split all the colors in two and it worked fine.  I used orange tangerine, bright yellow raincoat, peacock and teal micas from various suppliers.

The oils used were of course, coconut, palm and olive oil with additions of babassu, palm kernal flakes, and sunflower oil.  I whitened them with snow mica to try to take out as much green as possible.

This was fun to try, I finally got this result on my third try.  This was a popular scent.  I also tried with lavender spearmint essential oil soap and did not get the S curves I was looking for but this one was a pleasure to cut and see them.  I did use the hand made mold but the soap did not come out so easy even though I put sodium lactate in. 

On the top I just sprinkled jojoba beads, the soap is pretty enough itself!

Thank you Tatiana and Amy for bringing this challenge!  This is a beautiful soap design!

And of course, more pictures!