Hi this is Teri from Tree Marie Soapworks. Today I'm going to be showing you
this swirl. It's called a nonpareil swirl. Let's get started. First we have our
distilled water. I use ice cubes when it starts to get warmer in my house, so it
cools down faster. So that's why the ice cubes are there. Now we have our sodium
hydroxide and also our sodium lactate and that's one teaspoon per pound of
oils. The ice cubes that I used are just frozen distilled water that I keep in
the freezer. I'm mixing my sodium hydroxide with my cold water and then I
set it aside and let it cool under a vent fan. Here are my colorants. It's
Blue My Mind Neon Pigment and Radioactive Green Neon Pigment from Elements Bath and Body. I'm using this
combination to get a turquoise color I used the blue at 3/4 of a teaspoon per
pound of oils and the green at 1/4 of a teaspoon per pound of oils. I use a
little olive oil to get it wet. I mix it with my pallet knife on a sheet of Plexiglas.
For this batch I already measured my essential oils. They are a combination of
peppermint, lavender, pink grapefruit, lime, and patchouli and I added one teaspoon per pound of oils
of kaolin clay to this mixture. For the top of the soap I'm going to make a gold drizzle and this is diluted at a ratio of two to one.
That is two parts oils to one part of the gold and I used gold rush mica.
For the oils I used half of the oils as castor oil and half olive oil.
and I have already measured the lard and the coconut oil and I melted that a
microwave. Next I am adding my already measured castor oil, olive oil, and
avocado oil.
And to that I add my mixture of my essential oils in kaolin clay. Next I
add two tablespoons of titanium dioxide mixture which is mixed at a rate of one
part titanium dioxide to three parts of olive oil.
Here I'm adding my sodium lactate to my cooled lye solution. Next I am cutting my
liner to make it smaller and then I'm adding my gold for my gold drizzle.
Here I'm checking my temperatures again. I usually soak between 85 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit.
Then I strain my lye solution into my oils.
Now I'm weighing my bowl and the contents. Then I'm subtracting off
the weight of the bowl.
Then divided the content amount by three so you can have your three
parts. Hhere I'm adding these two pieces of plastic to my partitions to
try to get a little gold down to go all the way to the bottom and next I just
stick blend to emulsion.
Next, I just divide my batter by three.
Then I just add my turquoise colorant to one of the pitchers. This
batch I had planned to use the Taiwan Circling Swirl technique and use a
tongue depressor for the swirl tool as I had talked about in one of my other
videos, but I could see this was already starting to thicken up too much, so I
changed my mind to the other kind of swirl just to save the batch. I add the
batter just a little bit at a time first, I get just the bottoms full and I hold
down my dividers to make sure that none seeps under. Then I can just fill the
rest of the mold.
Here I'm was just loosening the batter a little with my stir stick and
then I'm adding the gold mixture in between those two pieces of plastic that
I added.
Next, I pull out those two pieces of plastic and then I pull out my dividers.
Most of the gold drizzle got stuck on the side of my pieces of plastic, so I
just added it back to the top and I bang down my mold and now I'm going to swirl.
Okay I'm finished with swirling in that direction, now I just drag and then wipe
off my stir stick and drag again and you can do however many you want.
I got this pretty swirl and I decided I couldn't leave good enough alone and I
went ahead and swirled again and this is what I got, and I thought oh man I just
ruined it, so I just spattered on some of my remaining batter, the
turquoise and the white and I did a new swirl. It's always good to have a plan B
right?
I banged down the mold again and the I swirled back and forth again just spread
out some of that turquoise and white. Next, I'll do the same thing I did before.
I started in the center this time but, I'll do two on each side. And each time
you wipe off the stir stick, every time you pull it through. Then I banged it
down. You can see it's getting thick so it didn't bang down very well and I
decided that ends needed pulled down too. Here we are. This is how it came out.
I just put this up through gel and I have had the heating pad on medium for 45
minutes, and and then I leave it covered for two days. And this one I wasn't in
any hurry to get it out of the mold because you have to split it
horizontally and you want your insight to be a little drier when you do that, so
I wasn't in any rush to cut it. And while I'm finishing this soap I'm gonna tell
you a little bit about what I learned from this batch. First, I would have cut
off an end bar that's vertical to make this a 9 bar batch instead of a 10 bar
batch, because I think that my pieces, when I made 10 bars ended up being too
short. They were around 2 inches tall I would rather had them to be like 2 and a
8th or so. Next time, when I cut horizontally I need to remember to cut
one bar vertically and then split the rest into 8 bars. The next thing I
learned is that I really like that combination of the Radioactive Green and
the Blue My Mind those neon colors make a great combination to make a turquoise
color; and also that Gold Rrush Mica is really fun and I love the
look of the drizzle on top, although you can see it didn't go throughout the bar
at all. It only went down about 1/4 of an inch, so I think back to the drawing
board on that one, but I'm still not done trying to get veins of gold. I don't like
the look of gold soap because it ends up being really yellow s,o I am going to
experiment more on making a gold vein and soap or a mica vein, well, whatever
color you want. Also I found out what the name of this world is called. I always
called it a peacock swirl, but actually a peacock swirl has another swirl after
this it goes in a wavy line back and forth to make it look like a feather. So
I asked on the Facebook group Saponification Nation and I found out
that it's called a Nonpareil swirl and while I am talking about
Saponification Nation, anybody that's not on there, this is a great group for soap
making to ask questions, and everybody is so nice on there. If you have a
question, you can search it on there and if you can't find anything about it you
can just ask, and other soap makers they'll just give their opinion on it.
I've learned so much from there. So if you are looking for a group that's
very supportive for mainly cold process soap making, this is a great group. It's
headed by Amanda and Benjamin Aaron and they also have Lovin' Soap Inc. and they
have lots of the ebooks and different things and a blog, so take a look at that.
Another thing I learned is I really like the glass rod stirring stick as a
swirling tool. It just really glides across the bottom, whereas, when I use a
wooden skewer it just wants to jump across the bottom and doesn't seem to
glide so easy so I really like that tool for swirling. If you like my videos and
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And thank you so much for watching!