Hello this is Ariane from La Fille de la Mer and I have something super exciting for
you guys today! A magic holiday fairy decided to visit my workshop last night
and she brought magic fairy dust and I will be making her favorite soap so that
all of you guys can enjoy it and it will be on my website very soon. I still have
a couple from last year but it's time to stock up again as the holidays
are coming along and many children will want to have one of these in their
stockings. Let's take a closer look at how I make this soap. The first thing I
did is that I took out my star silicone ice tray molds and I made some yellow
stars. I colored it with Nurture Soap's yellow vibrance mica. I decided to
use this color because it's a non bleeding colorant so the yellow from the
stars will not migrate into the other colors that will be integrated into this soap.
The next step is to spritz the stars with rubbing alcohol so that the
next layer of soap will adhere to them. I just kind of spritz and toss them
around and then with some melted white melt and pour and a fork I dip all of my
stars to kind of coat them with the melt & pour so that the layer will
kind of be marked with a white line. You can see on this soap that there is a
little white line all around and that's because I dip all of my stars in white
melt & pour prior to integrating them to the fairy soap. I find that this
process is a little bit like when making homemade chocolate truffles! You know
when you melt that chocolate and you dip the truffles into that hard coating?
It's like that feeling! I'm dipping stars! Once the little stars are dry I just take a
little utility knife and slide it under to remove them from my work table.
Then I just trim off the little drops that are all around the base of
the stars. Now that the Stars have been made I will place my molds, but right
before I forgot to tell you I have some very exciting announcements for you but
I will do that at the end of the video so stay tuned because this is gonna be
super awesome! Alright?! So let me show you what I do with these molds because you
see that in this soap I have a tilted layer. It's not straight so the molds
will actually need to be tilted. What I do is that I take some towels, clean
towels and I place them under each side
so that my layers are tilted and that it doesn't slide from what they're holding on.
If it's not tilted enough what I'll do is that... I have these that
are the end of the molds. I have some extra ones from other molds that aren't
being used right now so I can tilt it even more with these or any kind of log
or anything you need you can grab around in your workshop that will make your
molds tilted! And there we go know so that nothing moves and nothing
slides I'm just gonna put a little weight, I got some color blocks! This
shouldn't move any more so this one is being held by the color blocks and the
other mold is being held by this one.
While we are waiting for this layer to set here are a few tips on making
layered soaps: first of all when using melt & pour you should know from your
supplier what is the melting point and you should know at which temperature you
need to work at so when you pour one layer over the other you do not want it
to be too hot otherwise you're gonna melt the previous layer and ruin all of
your hard work and if you pour too cold it will not bond together and they will
most likely split apart and break when you unmold and cut your soap. So having a
thermometer is a very good idea I really like infrared thermometers like this one
because you don't actually need to dip and wash your Taylor monitor between
each use another thing to consider is your fragrance oil some fragrance oils
will discolor the color of your soap because it contains vanilla or other
ingredients that will affect the color on the long-term so it may look red when
you just make it but in a few weeks it might turn brown or pinkish so if you
want your red to stay red and your golden yellow to stay golden yellow use
fragrances that have no vanilla and read the data sheets of each fragrances
suppliers usually have a comment section on each of their products and read the
comments if someone said Oh discolored has discolored even though it didn't
have vanilla keep it for another project don't use it in a layered soap that you
want the colors to tape stay true otherwise it'll ruin all of your hard
work and also rubbing alcohol is your friend every layer needs to be spritz
with rubbing alcohol between each use I have my new rubbing alcohol bottle right
there and I have it around for each mouth and port project that I make if
there's a shapes to be embedded or layers to be made
making layered mountain poor takes time and while we are waiting I wanted to
share with you some super exciting news in 2018
I will be attending two major soap and cosmetic industry events and I will be a
speaker at both of those event the first thing that I'd like to ask you is do you
have your membership card from the handcrafted soap in cosmetic guild this
is an international non-for-profit guild based in the US that helps soap makers
from around the world to find resources they offer supplier discounts and every
year they have an annual conference somewhere in the u.s. sometimes east or
west or in the center and soap makers gather together and it's huge and it's
super big and super fun I've been there in 2015 and I will be in Atlanta in May
two thousand eighteen I will link all of the details below but just to tell you I
will be doing a mountain port presentation about swirling and
integrating embeds into mountain poor soaps and not only will I be speaking in
Atlanta but I will also be speaking for them in June of 2018 in Toronto Canada
for their first Canadian annual conference that will be held in
collaboration with the handcrafted bath and body guild which is a Canadian
Organization for soap makers and cosmetic crafters in Canada I will be
doing a different topic in Toronto it will be also about mountain pour but how
to use additives in melton pour so I hope it will get to see you in one of
those two events your membership card because you get
discounts for the conference but even though you're not a member you can still
come the price will just be different I will leave all the links below whether
you want to come to the Canadian or the u.s. conference or maybe you want to
come at both and that would be great too because my topics will be different so I
wanted to make sure that if someone attended both event they would have
different topics from me I'm gonna use this beautiful teal turquoise color from
nurture soap supplies and what I do for this layer because this is the layer
that will embed the stars within
measuring magical fairy
and if you look at this soap I will be embedding the star right here within the
blue I'm gonna keep on mixing this but I'm gonna also prepare my layer to
receive the star so what I do is I take a ruler that I cleaned with rubbing
alcohol prior to putting it in my soap mold and with a small utility knife I'm
gonna mark the line every place I want to put a star I'm working very gently
because this layer is still warm and viable and I don't want to you know make
an indent on the layer but I also need to know where to put my stars so that
when I cut my soap there will be one star in every so now is the time to glue
these stars so I spray them swish them around just to make sure that they're
all coated with the rubbing alcohol and I just dip the base of my stars
now that the layer is firm enough I can remove the blocks from the molds and put
them flat out on the table so that that I can pour the last layer straight
magic fairy fairy soup so well the magic holiday fairy soap is in the mold it
will harden up until tomorrow and I will be back to unmold it with you guys
there we go this is how the magic holiday fairy soap looks like and if you
look closer you can see that the translucent layers are shimmery and
glittery and it smells amazing with five different fragrance oils of fruity and
sweet tones mixed together it's perfect for holiday stockings but it's also a
perfect party favor for any birthday I hope you've enjoyed watching this video
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comment section below and if you'd like to learn more about mouth and pour soap
making don't forget that I will be a speaker for both of the HSC G's 2018
conference one is in Atlanta the other one is in Toronto may June of 2018 I
will leave all the links below for all of the details and there will be a
lineup of crazy amazing speakers along with me on code process melt and pour
liquid soap business tips name it go check it out
thanks for watching I'll see you later