Dirty Pour Soap Challenge

Back with Amy Warden’s soap challenge again, this one adapted from the dirty pour fluid acrylic technique. I used a Bastille recipe with olive oil, rice bran oil, coconut oil and castor to keep things fluid.

I used several color micas that seemed like they would look good, but I’m not so happy with the final product colors. I’ll try again with different colors. I used Apricot Freesia fragrance since I know it does not accelerate (learned this from an early soap challenge with Amy.)  I mixed oils and lye around 110 F and stick-blended to emulsion.

The slab mold is cut from a cardboard shipping box; I really need to get a real slab mold!  Here are my mold, couplers for pouring and the micas I used.  The micas teal, apple green and neon green, orange and neon orange and purple (which I forgot to put in the picture.)  I added a bit of pearly white (Brambleberry) to the plain batter.

And just the mold and couplers.  This cardboard mold was a bear trying to line.  As you can see, it leaked anyway.

I poured the green and teal in the outer coupler, the orange and purple in the smaller one.  Part way through, I poured the plain soap into the corners.   I finished pouring the colors and let the couplers drip onto the soap.

I think my batch was too deep to get really good movement when tilting it.  It stayed nicely fluid though, but I will use a smaller batch next time.  I think a shallower batch will work better.

So, here it is.  Not bad for a first try and rushing to finish.  Already thinking about the next one!