Great Cakes Soapworks Swirling Soap Challenge

Blue Jean Swirling Soap: By Marlene and Kellie

Here is our entry for the Swirling Soap challenge:

Our inspiration for this challenge was our favorite pair of jeans, soft, worn, and comfortable. 

We used ultramarine blue, pillowcase grey and snow white as our colors. We lightened the ultramarine blue with the snow white to represent the worn color in the jeans, the grey represents the metal parts and the white represents our skin peeking through the bare threads, and of course, scented with Brambleberry’s Crisp Cotton fragrance oil.

This was our first soaping challenge, also our first four color pour, first lye/water combination (We have only used goat’s milk soap in our previous recipes),  first time using the slab mold, and our first blog!

Thank you Amy for nudging us to give this a try.

We used Amy’s first suggested slow moving recipe. Our first attempt was a big fail. We did not blend it long enough. It was very easy to pour and it swirled beautifully but it was covered in soda ash and crumbled when cut.

Our second attempt was the same recipe and we made sure to blend it longer, maybe too long.  It was a little too thick this time so the swirls were not blended as well. We sprayed it with alcohol and covered it with saran wrap and no soda ash! Yeah! 

The final soap was very creamy and smooth with small bubbles.

What a wonderful experience! Hope you enjoy our Blue Jean Swirling Soap.