Monday, April 15, 2013

Cinnamon-Clove Textured Soap


I've really been wanting to experiment with textured tops and soap. I always see these amazingly detailed soaps, but I always pour at too thin a trace. Well, tonight while making soap I realized that my scent was accelerating very quickly, and hit a nice gloppy medium-heavy trace. Time for textures!

I wanted to swirl this one like I had swirled my charcoal detox bar, with a deep black against a nice dark red. Which is the other color, by the way. It's hard to tell in the picture. That brown is a grungy burgundy, promise!

I used Bramble Berry's Merlot mica, and activated charcoal (yay deep blacks and clear lather!) and layered the black colored soap int he bottom of my silicone pan. Next I zig-zagged the red in, and folded it into the black with my spatula. We'll see how well that works tomorrow when I cut the bars -- but man, once I took a wisk and detailed the top, it became so lovely. I couldn't stop taking pictures of it.

Here are some more:




Look at all that texture! <3
And it smells of delicious cinnamon-clove. Mmm. Maybe more of a fall scent, but I had a few customers specifically ask for bars like this. Yay!



4 comments:

  1. Very nice, Ashley! I have a difficult time with textured tops, too. Yours look great. I'll bet cinnamon and clove smell amazing together!

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    1. Yay, thank you! The cinnamon-clove is a favorite of one of my housemates, and I had another friend wanting a cinnamon scented soap. It has a nice, sweet undertone, so the cinnamon seems more balanced. It still smells wonderful, and I'm glad the scent is holding so well.

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  2. Wow, can't stop looking at this beautiful top!

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    1. Thanks! I'm as daunted and amazed at it as you are -- this was my very first attempt at purposefully making pretty tops! After I made them I drizzled a tad bit of glitter onto them. They're so pretty! And they smell like Christmas. :)

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