Hi this is Teri from Tree Marie Soapworks. :) Today I'm going to be showing you
how to make this soap. The technique is called Line Pour and let's get started.
First I start with my lye solution. I add my cold distilled water and my sodium
hydroxide and then I always measure my sodium lactate and that's one teaspoon
per pound of oils. And I add that later, but I just measure it now and set it by
my lye solution while it's cooling. It's a natural ingredient and it just hardens
the bar a little which is really nice. It makes it last a little longer. If you
don't have sodium lactate it's totally not necessary but if you want to harden
your bar a little bit you can use salt you just have to dissolve it in the
water before you add your lye. And I heard the ratio is one fourth of a
teaspoon per pound of hard oils. Okay now we start measuring our hard oils.
First we have our coconut oil, and then our melted palm oil and I microwave these.
And then I measure my liquid oils which is castor oil and olive oil. Okay next we
are going to prepare our colorants. First we have Ultramarine Pink Oxide and
all these colorants I used today are from Bramble Berry and you see the color
swatches to the left there. I made those all at a rate of one teaspoon per pound
of oils so I know whether I want to darken or lighten from that. but I like
these colors as they are so I'm just using one teaspoon per pound of oils and
for today. The amount I use I used an eighth of a teaspoon plus 1/16 of a
teaspoon, so I guess I did a slight bit a little darker than the one teaspoon per
pound of oils.
And this is Tangerine Wow colorant
I'm just adding a little bit of olive oil to dilute the colorant. I don't
measure this I just add enough to get it wet and it just adds to the super fat of
the soap.
And next we have our Fizzy Lemonade colorant and again that's one teaspoon
per pound of oils or an eighth of a teaspoon
plus a sixteenth of a teaspoon.
Next, we have Hydrated Chrome Green Pigment. All of these colorants need to
have a little more attention to them. They're a little bit harder to mix
everything in, so this technique with using the pallet knife is especially
helpful with these.
Next, we have Aqua Pearl Mica this one is a little tricky to mix even though it
says it's a mica. I found that I had specks in and if I didn't do the palette
knife technique. It's just a little tricky to mix in, but it's a beautiful
color!
Okay now that we have our hard oils melted, I am weighing out our cocoa
butter pastills. When I am using cocoa butter I usually don't like to get the
temperature too high, so I try to just stir them in and melt them that way from
the temperature of what the hard oils melted at. Okay next, I'm going to be
adding the sodium lactate to the lye solution, and then I'll strain the lye
solution into a different pitcher.
Here I am just stirring in the cocoa butter until it's completely melted.
Next, I'm going to be adding Champagne Extract it's from Bramble Berry Soiree
Collection and it adds a little extra moisture to your bar. Now I'm adding the
castor oil in olive oil to the melted hard oils and the champagne extract.
Here I'm zeroing the scale and adding my liquid oils in my bowl and then I'm
adding my lye solution and I'm going to note that weight and then I'll subtract
off the bowl and then figure out my percentages for the rest of my batch.
Now that everything's together we'll just stick blend until emulsion is
reached or light trace whichever one. For this recipe I wished I would have had it
a little thicker, so I could have stick ended until a light trace. For the five
colors in this batch I'm just splitting 9% of the batter and the remaining 55%
of the matter will be white.
And for the white batter I'm using Titanium Dioxide this diluted one part
titanium dioxide to three parts olive oil, and then I used two tablespoons.
And now we're just adding all the colorants that are already diluted into
the 9% and batter in each cup.
This fragrance is from Bramble Berry's Soiree Collection. It's called peach
Prosecco, and it's a kind of a fruity, I would say floral, it sort of reminds me
of Energy. I just figured out ahead of time how much nine percent of the total
is, and then I added that to my colors and just added the rest to the white
batter.
Next, you'll need to get your squeeze bottles ready and you'll need one for
each color, including the white, and then you fill in with each of the colors.
Next, it's time to prepare the mold. This is a tall skinny mold. See these blocks, I
would say they're about 3/8 inch thick or a fourth of an inch thick or so. I used
three of them and then I ended up adding another one. It would be propped up one
to one and a half inches on the left side. And then now as you keep adding
more batter, you just will need to take one of the blocks out as you go. And you
can see the my batter was a little thin when I started pouring and as I go it
thickens up and makes better lines. The ones at first kind of
created a wavy line, which I kind of liked how it turned out, but it wasn't
what I was going for in this batch. And I just did random amounts in random color
order. And I just kept going until the batter ran out. This technique is really
good for a landscape look you could do an ocean on the bottom and like a sunset
on the top, or a cloudy sky on the top and really, the sky is the limit to what
you could do with this design.
When I got to the top I just added the colors to the top that I had left and
tried to make a design, and then I did a little swirl, but since this batter was a
little thin, I ended up having to cut it off later because the top was kind of a
funny texture. Once I was finished with this, I put it through gel using a
heating pad and I left it for two days.
And you can see the top came out kind of weird so I planed it off, and I'm just
gonna use those extra things that I playing off to make soap balls with.
So here I was beveling the four sides that were the long sides. And I'm taking a
little off of each end so you could see the design a little better. And then I
will divide this whole thing by four. I want to turn the bar and cut it in
the 90 degrees so that we'll get a straight line instead of that curved
line that kind of looks like a tiger swirl.
So here, I cut this first one and I'm just gonna check and see if I like it
cut that different way. And my bars I cuts a one inch deep so that I can fit
them in my boxes. And I decided that I liked it cut that way so it's more of a
straight line than that curved line, and so I'm finishing cutting each of these.
And then I'll turn them 90 degrees and cut the other way, and as I finished up I
want to tell you some of the things that I learned from making this soap. First
the fragrance I used, the new Peach Prosecco, it actually slows down
acceleration, so that would be a good one to use in a batch that I needed to stay
fluid for a long time like dancing funnel or or this technique, but second
thing I learned is you have to get it to proper trace. I was I hadn't used this
before so I was worried about it speeding up and so I started pouring a
little too early and you could see on the bottom I got that weird texture but
it actually really turned out really cool, looks kind of like waves and
I like how it came out, but if I'm trying to just do a straight line I need to
wait till proper trace. The next thing I learned is that this technique takes a
long time when you use squeeze bottles and I've seen another way to do it where
you use a in the pot swirl and you put all the colors in the pot with the white
batter and you just pour back and forth like that and it comes out really neat,
so when I'm doing another in the pot swirl I might try that technique instead
of this one with the squeeze bottles. Another thing I learned from this is I
really love this color combination and I want to use it in bigger stripes because
it's just such a pretty combination, and I'm also hoping that you learned
something from this video so if you did feel free to comment below and if you
have any questions also please comment below also if anybody knows the ratio of
salt to oils when you're not using sodium lactate and replacing it with
salt, that would be great if you could comment below too. If you liked this
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