How to make a peacock Soap swirl with natural colors, cold process soap making in a slab mold.

Описание: This months Soap challenge is a Peacock Soap swirl, it hosted by Amanda and Robin. In this video, I’m making a peacock swirl in a 9 bar slab mold. Tools needed - comb, a slab mold, a swirl stick, and a slow moving recipe. Olive oil and lard help make a slow moving recipe, while using essential oils that do not speed up trace. I’m water discounting to 25%. The colors I’m going to use are all plant cold oil infusions, and some are powders. The seven colors being used are white, purple, blue, green, turquoise, brown, and burgundy. For my white it’s no color. For the purple, I’m using 15 grams of alkanet oil infusion. For the blue, I’m using 5 grams of indigo and some woad powder. For the green I’m using an 10 grams of annatto seed and 5 grams of indigo. For the turquoise color I’m using chlorophyll powder. For the brown I’m using cocoa powder. For the burgundy, I’m using madder root, and a small amount of red reef clay. To do this technique, you will lay lines across your slab mold, alternating the colors. I used the pipettes to control the lines. Once you get all your soap in the mold, you’ll take your raking tool and pull it down the opposite way of the lines. On the same area where you pulled it down, you’re gonna start your swirl with a swirl stick and do S shaped down the mold. You will line up your last line and continue until it’s all swirled. Once you were done, I cover my mold and set my oven to the lowest setting, place it inside with the oven with the light on for about 20 minutes and then I turn it off. This will force gel. The natural plant colors will change some.