Hi, my name is Teri Tree Marie Soapworks. Today I'm going to be showing you
how to make this swirl it's a Cosmic Wave Swirl and I learned it from Tatiana
Serko a while back when I was doing the Soap Challenge and if you want to check
out her page, I have linked her Instagram page in the description below. Let's get
started. First I measure my distilled water. And then I measure my sodium
hydroxide and then I add my sodium hydroxide to my distilled water. Make
sure that you stir right away and get that dissolved and don't let it settle
on the bottom, because it can form a crust and be very hard to break up. Next,
I measure my sodium lactate and I measure that at a rate of one teaspoon
per pound of oils. I set those aside in a place that's well-ventilated and that is
safe from any pets or children. While those are cooling I start to measure my
other ingredients starting with my coconut oil and I melt that and then I
start to measure my liquid oils starting with my avocado oil, then my castor oil,
and then my olive oil. I include my recipes below but I don't give them in
amounts I give them in percentages for the oils. I give enough information for
you to put it into soap calc I want you to be able to do that yourself that's
why I don't give you the exact amounts. I want you to learn how to put recipes
into a soap calculator. So if you're having trouble just ask questions
because any recipe you find on the internet you should really be putting
through a soap calculator just to make sure that that lye amount is correct.
Okay now let's get started with our colors. First, we have coconut carbon. This
is smooth coconut carbon from Elements Bath and Body it's also called Activated
Charcoal I use it at a rate of 1.5 teaspoons per pound of soap and for this
one I'm using this for 50% of my batter. in the future, I plan on making a video
that explains color a little more and how to figure it, but right now I have a
video that I made for Elements Bath and Body that shows how to use their
Colorant Calculator and this is a really valuable tool. I use this all the time
when I'm figuring my colorants and it makes it very easy, no math is involved.
You just have to put in some numbers and your percentages or your amount of
batter that you want to color, and it will do the work for you, and I left
link in the description to find that video. Okay now let's talk about the dark
purple that I'm finishing up here. I use this for forty percent of my batter and
I used the activated charcoal at a rate of 0.125 teaspoons per pound of soap and
the Cosmic Aurora Purple I used at a rate of one teaspoon per pound of oils.
For the remaining 10% of the batter, I'm using Cosmic Aurora Purple and Ravishing
Red and those are both from Elements Bath and Body, and I'm using them at a
rate of 0.75 teaspoons per pound of oils. I normally use extra oils from squeeze
bottles to disperse my colorants but today I'm using batch oils and you'll
see why next. I am using two additional colors that will not go into batter.
They'll just be dispersed into oils, and that's why I'm using oils from the batch
and not extra oils because they would get to be too many oils and too much of
a super fat. So I'm using these two colors and they are both from Mad
Mica's and one is called Snow White and the other is called Flashdance and I'm
dispersing them at a rate of one to one, so I'm using one and a half teaspoons of
the colorant to a one and a half teaspoons of the batch oils and the idea
is that the oils will absorb into the batch and that'll leave more intense
colors from these two colorants. Next I add my cocoa butter pastels to my melted
coconut oil and then I add my liquid oils that I measured before, and then I
add my fragrance oil. And this is Night Violet fragrance oil from Bramble Berry.
It's part of their Celestial Collection and it behaved very well for this recipe
On their label, it says it has slight acceleration and it did not accelerate
at all for me. After the oils in the lye water has cooled to a temperature
between 85 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit, I add my sodium lactate to my lye water
and then I strain my lye water into my oils.
Before I began this soap I noted the weight of my bowl so that I can subtract
the weight of the bowl off. So I weigh the weight of my bowl and contents then
I subtract the weight of the bowl off. And then I multiply that number by 0.5
0.4 and 0.1 to get my 50% 40% in 10% of the batter.
And right here I give the batter a good stirring with my spatula just to see
what it's going to do if I think it's going to accelerate I would not use the
stick blender I would just use the spatula to stir, But it seems like it's
doing just fine, and now I'm separating the batter by the 10% 40% and 50%.
Next, I just add my three colors and I stir them in well. And you can see on the
middle one, the dark purple, I didn't get that one mixed in is good when I was
using my palette knife, and so I make sure and try to get any clumps that I
see out, and do that before I pour the batter. I use this cordless mini mixer to
mix my batter. I do that when I have small amounts of batter and you see that
10% of batter it can't really be stick blended because it would introduce so
many air bubbles in there, so I just used the mini mixer to treat each batter the
same. And then after that, I just wait, and then I'll stir and wait and stir and see
when that batter is thick enough to pour. I wait until the batter was that about
medium trace and it's fairly thick but it's still definitely very pourable. And
I just poured the purple and the pink on top of the black and then I added a
little bit of my accent colors with a pipette. And then I just poured it in the
corner and let it spread out. And let me tell you this technique is so fun I
can't wait to do it again. It's so neat how it comes out. And you see on
my finish bars that they're a little blurry. You can see why because
that's the bottom of these. That's what's kind of moving across the bottom so
they're gonna be a little smeared on the top when these are turned over, but I
kind of like it actually, cuz the picture I was going for how to look like that.
You don't see really defined edges, so I link to the picture that I found on
Pinterest that I was going for and I think it came out pretty close.
Originally, I was planning on adding glitter to these when I popped them out
of the mold, and do the same spray method, but don't try that because I use glitter
in my spray bottle and that does not go through your tip. I thought it probably
wouldn't but I tried it anyway but then I used a paintbrush, and I just painted
it on, and it came out alright but usually when I use glitter, painting it
on would kind of smear the top a little and I didn't want to do that so I just
didn't add glitter. If you want to add glitter, you could just paint it on
with alcohol and glitter and it would look alright. In this case, I just
thought it looked good enough as it was and I didn't want to possibly mess it up,
I found out that I liked the pours that I did that I moved to my picture or less
back and forth, and that I just kind of moved it toward me instead of back and
forth, I feel like those were less muddy looking. S o I think I like it just
when you barely move it back and forth, if you want a little wiggle in your line.
But it often does it on its own and you don't really need to wiggle your pitcher
but you'll just have to get a feel for that when you're doing it.
I finished this the same way that I normally do. I covered it and then I put
it in the oven that was preheated to the lowest temperature and then I turned the
oven off right away. And I just leave the oven light on and I
leave it that way overnight. And this one I planned on leaving in the mold for
longer than two days, but I just was so curious to get him out of there. So I
took him out of the mold after 48 hours and they came out fine really, but I kind
of wished I would have left him in there another day or two, but I just couldn't
wait to see it.
Here I'm just cleaning up any drips that are on the side of the mold. This
will come in handy when I'm trying to slide the bars out of the mold. It will
make it so they don't get kind of scratched up by the stuff that's on the
side.
Okay, now that I have my so popped out of the mold, I am just planing off the
bottom of them because some of them had a tiny bit of soda ash on them, and also
they were kind of uneven. I would pass them through one time to get one side or
the other knocked off, and then I'd pass it through again just to get a straight
bottom. And then after that, I just used my vegetable peeler and I beveled around
the bottom edge. Since I'm just cleaning the soap now, I'll tell you a little bit
about what I learned. One thing I probably would have done differently is, I
would have added a little more of that Ravishing Red that I used for the
one that I used at 10%. I would have used probably twice as much I used to 0.75
teaspoons per pound of oils. I would probably change that to one and a half
teaspoons per pound of oils. And then because the other color, the Cosmic
Aurora is a neon color and that's stronger, so I would keep that at the
0.75. And I think that would have given us more of a red. You saw the red
when I was pouring it, but then in the final batch you don't see that red as
much except for that little accident color you see a little bit, but I would
have liked to have just a little more of that 10% of red. I think that would have
set it off quite a bit. I am wondering how confident you are with color and I
know you have to start somewhere and when I was new to soap making I just
didn't know where to even start with color. So if you're not confident with
coloring and you have any questions just leave them in the comments, and I will
eventually get together a color explanation video that will go into
depth a little more. I know I talked about it earlier but I just, one
of my loves is color. I'm a graphic artist is what my degree is in, so I have
an art background and I just love color.
Another thing that I learned with this batch is that that trace was just
perfect for this. It was about a medium trace I would say. The way I
got that trace was just by waiting on it I think as soap makers a lot of us get
impatient so we'll either stick blend it and possibly go a little too far, and
then halfway through our pouring our batter gets too thick. Or we'll pour it
too soon because we just don't want to wait on it, and I think with just being
patient and letting your batter sit and stirring it. You could let your batter
sit and go do some dishes and then come back and stir it again and see if it's
good, and I think I waited probably about 20 minutes on this batter.
I had plenty of other things to do while I was waiting and I just kept checking on
it, and so I think that was a good thing I learned from this batch. With this bar
that's all the tips I can think of, but I just learned that I love this technique
and I can't wait to get back and do it again. And I also think that I would like
to keep one of these bars for myself and try it because I think in the inside the
design would look even prettier. If you're new to my channel and you're
interested in soap making I just started a Facebook Group and it's called Tree
Marie Soapworks also but it's a group so if you just search Tree Marie Soapworks,
or go in the description below I'll have a link. It's a group for asking
questions and sharing your soap and just a good place for encouragement in your
soap making, and I will try to go there as much as I can, but really it just
exploded more than I thought, so there's way more people that I thought would be
in it. So I'm trying to do the best I can, but sometimes I'm on there and I'm
thinking, "I just want to be making soap." So if you can answer any other questions
go ahead and help someone out, and I will get on there as much as I can. If you
have a question for me specifically, just tag Teri Endsley in the post. Also, if
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