Monday, March 23, 2020

March 2020 Soap Challenge

Well I feel defeated! This has been the hardest soap challenge for me since I started last July. I just can't seem to get this technique to work for me. I made  a lot of soap If the batter got too thick on me, I just reverted to a quick in the mold swirl so I at least had something I could use. Even when I thought I had the right consistancy, it still just didn't seem to work for me. On the batches where I actually got some clamshells, I used the recipe with lard. I only had lard on hand because a kid in my 4-H group gave me some he had leftover from making tamales. I am running out of some ingredients which is also limiting me. I don't like using lard because of the vegetarians in my family.

I am entering my second attempt. I was trying to capture the colors in an abalone shell. I used Abalone and Sea as the fragrance.
 
Here is a selection of some of the soaps I made this month while trying to learn this technique. I actually like them but they aren't good examples of the clamshell technique. They are just pretty soaps.

This one was an attempt at the advanced category.

Here is a bunch of them put together:

All of my pictures are a bit dark. It has been on and off rainy and overcast and I really have a hard time with lighting. I use my phone for pictures and it isn't the best at getting the colors correct either.

Maybe I will try this again and have better luck next time.

3 comments:

  1. I'm so sorry you feel defeated, Marian! I really like how your entry soap turned out! The teal & pink one looks great too! I'm going to work on a new vegan, palm-free slow moving recipe. Lard really does slow trace wonderfully, but I know not everyone likes to use it.

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  2. I like how your soap turned out. It may not have been what you were going for, but they are still beautiful.

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  3. You created some beautiful soaps! Love your colors, too!

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