Property of Laurie Teason

 

TAS, thank you for taking the wonderful photos.

 

 

 

Recipe formulated with the help of

 

Conditioning Soap (Winters Blend) Soap Recipe
2 oz Shea Butter
4 oz Mango Butter
6 oz Hazelnut
22 oz Coconut
30 oz Palm
39 oz Olive

14.46 oz Lye (NaOH)
34 oz oz Water

1.5 oz Rosemary
10 drops Helichrysum

1 T Spirulina
1 T French Green clay

1/2 T Red Clay

 

Soapmaker readings: hardness 6.2, fluffy 4.2, stable lather 6.3, conditioning 6.2

INS value: 151

 

Instructions

• Measure out hard or solid oil and butters and place in soap pot

• Add water to lye, stir and when the lye is dissolved pour over hard oils in soap pot

• Use the stick blender to break up chunks

• Once chunks are melted add liquid/soft oils to soap pot and stick blend

• Bring to a thin trace

• Pull out about a cup of soap per swirl color and set aside

• Before add scent to soap prepare soap for swirling so you are all set to go

• To the soap pot add your scent and stick blend to a medium light trace

• Pour into lined mold, shake to level soap out

• Now you are ready to start swirling but first..

Preparing Soap for Swirls

• For each cup of soap base you reserved you will now add colorant and mix well using a whisk. Pour into a Freezer Zip-Lock bag and make sure it is completely sealed

• Repeat this step for ever swirl color you are using

Ready to Swirl

• Now snip just a little bit of the corner of the bag

• Making sure the tip of the cut corner of the baggie is in a downward position, squeeze while making a Curly Q pattern.

• Depending on the amount of pressure you use to squeeze the soap out the baggie will determine how far down the soap will hit the mold.

• When squeezing if the colored soap disappears there is a good chance it hit bottom.

• Keep the curly Q pattern moving so you don't create a huge blob of colorant on the bottom of the soap

• When squeezing, if the colored soap is just laying (raised) on top of the soap, there is a good chance it is just on the surface and did not go any deeper

• When squeezing, if the colored soap is still visible on the surface but not raised, there is a good chance you hit the middle of the soap base

• You are aiming to do all three depth levels!

Hints

• Don't crowd your swirl pattern, leave yourself some swirling room so you can spread the swirl pattern out.

• Don't over swirl- it is easy to do because you are having so much fun, try to contain yourself. LOL

• I personally do not scent the soap that is being used for swirling

Cover the soap, bring to a full gel, and then remove the lid.

The soap we made earlier that day was made at 2PM. The lid was removed at 4:30 and placed it on the cool concrete floor.

Soap was cut it at 7:45 PM (which you can see in the slide show- it is the soap that had been cut into bars)
Everything pre-measured. It only took 15 minutes to make this RT- Clay swirl soap!