this is Teri from Tree Marie Soapworks today I'm going to be making
restocks of this bar called Irish Tweed and I'm going to be showing
you my technique for doing this swirl called
Taiwan Circling Swirl. I'm going to be using Green Irish Tweed for the
fragrance Yellow Oxide and Brown Oxide and also Titanium Dioxide for the
colorants these are all from Elements Bath and Body and I'm just using 1/8
teaspoon of Yellow Oxide and this is my way of mixing colorants especially
oxides and ultramarines they tend to get specks in the batter when you cut
them. They smear and it's just one of my pet peeves with my soap so I use a
palette knife and I just get it all smashed down so there's no little little
specks of color in there
and this is Brown Oxide and I'm only using 1/16 of a teaspoon for this one
and the same here I just put a little bit of olive oil and just get it all
dispersed evenly with no little specks
and strain your lye solution which is your water and lye and also sodium
lactate if you're using that into your oil solution and these oils are already
melted and it's all the liquid oils and of the hard oils and just stick
blend until emulsion is reached.
Okay now at this point I figured out what 1/3 of the batter is and now I'm
going to just divide that off into three pitchers.
Okay next I'm going to be adding 1/2 a teaspoon of Titanium Dioxide to mixture
to each of the end pitchers and then one tablespoon of Titanium Dioxide
mixture into the middle one and my Titanium Dioxide mixture is just a
1-to-3 mixture of Titanium Dioxide to olive oil. Now I'm just adding the yellow
and brown color into the each of the end pitchers
and now I'm just putting a third of the fragrance oil into each of the pictures
and feel free to just eyeball it. I always am a stickler with using just the
right amount of grams but a lot of people just eyeball it and it comes out
fine. And so now you want to stick blend until just light trace you need your
batter to be fluid when you're doing this technique or it won't swirl it'll
barely drag so make sure that it's still very fluid
I want to tell you a little bit about the dividers these dividers I made
myself from help from my friend Helene in Canada and I will share a link to her
channel in the description below but you can also get dividers from Brambleberry
for this mold
Okay now this fragrance oil did not accelerate at all so I had to stick
blend a few times to get this light trace
so now it's time for pouring and I usually just start with the center and
pour either side. You don't want to pour the whole thing full the first shot
because with these, the dividers tend to bend but I always keep my left
hand on the mold and just pour with my right hand until it doesn't seem like it
would go underneath because a lot of times it would just go underneath and
seep to the other side of the divider.
Now you just remove your dividers
and clean up any messes and I'm gonna show you this skewer it's called a
skinny stick and I got it at Walmart and it's a flat stick smaller than a
popsicle stick and I inserted it parallel to the long side of the mold.
and I was just kind of experimenting to see if this would drag more than the
around skewer and I think it is and so I just wanted to see the difference
and when you get to the end just pull your stick out and and then you can you
just turn it 90 degrees and go around the mold and this time you're dragging
the other direction so when you go up and down those directions don't drag but
the left and right directions drag.
Just try to tap out any air bubbles without disturbing those pretty
swirls.
And here's the soap out of the mold
for this kind of design you have to cut it horizontally. I'm just spliting this
and then I'm going to split it again because I have to fit in my boxes so
that top one needs to be shortened just a bit.
I want to show you the difference. This one on the left here I use that
flat stick and the one on the right I used a skewer. And you can see where the
one on the left with the stick has much more drag than the one
on the right, so I just wanted to show you the difference so that you would
know which which way you like the best and which way you want to use. So I'm
going to create a poll to see which one you like so you can just answer if
you like the left one which is the flat stick or if you like the right which is
the skewer.
And now I'm beveling the long edges. Beveling is totally optional you do not
have to do that at all. It's just when I hold a bar in my hand I like the feel of
a bar that's beveled better than theirs those sharp edges so I just bevel all my
soap. Now I put the bars back together so I have less cuts to
make so I just mark it and cut it every two inches and then get my ten bars and
then go into the next one and mark it again, and cut the inch bars.
Okay now it's just the time when I'm bevel all the bars. If you liked this
tutorial, I have a written tutorial that I made four ElementsBathandBody.com
if you look in the Learning Center you can find this under the Soap heading,
slso if you have any techniques that you would like to learn and aren't sure how
to do, leave them in the comments and if I know how to do it I can make a
tutorial on that so just let me know and I'll see what I can do for you.
If you're new to soap making and you have any questions please ask and also
if there's anything you just don't know how to do, like I'm thinking about making
a tutorial on how to use soapcalc, so if that would be something valuable to you,
just let me know in the comments. I just want to thank you for watching my
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thank you and have a great day!