tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39808067232067587482024-02-20T18:04:11.960+11:00Eden's Natural InspirationEden's Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640188448965704314noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3980806723206758748.post-5957298497669875772014-03-24T00:00:00.000+11:002014-03-24T01:56:37.112+11:00Drop Swirl Challenge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hopefully I won't be late to enter <a href="http://greatcakessoapworks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amy's</a> latest challenge.<br />
Even though I've made this soap in time, need to hurry up to finalize this entry.<br />
Today was my very first local market day and lately I spent all my time to be ready for this event.<br />
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So, instead of talking now it's time to get ready with my pictures to upload.<br />
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Chocolate-Mint Drop Swirl</h3>
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My daughter has painted two pictures for me years ago. Those are still my favorites as I love their color combination and gave me inspiration for my new soap challenge.</div>
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The tints of brown with white and green reminds me to the one day favorite biscuits 'Arnott's Mint slice'. I'm just teasing my mind :)</div>
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That's how my new soap has got it's name.</div>
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I've also tried the CP and M&P combination. It was a great experience as well. Tomorrow I'll upload those pictures but now have to hurry up to catch Amy's deadline.<br />
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CP and M&P combination</h3>
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As I promised yesterday, I show my second attempt combining cold process soap with melt and pour soap.</div>
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The idea - to combine CP soap with something transparent - came into my mind first, when I've seen <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrCGSU3XHhA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Catherine's (soaping101)</a> video about making translucent soap months ago, as it can be remelted.<br />It seemed to be very time consuming.</div>
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For the base, I used a new recipe (at least for me) trying Crisco vegetable shortening as I run out of palm oil, and tried to employ sunflower oil in bigger quantity as I discovered a cheap supply.<br />I colored with charcoal and scented with Dragon's Blood.</div>
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I tried to recall the famous European volcano Mount Vesuvius as you can see this picture.</div>
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I've found this picture on Google search and would like to give credit to the maker, but it was on a Bosnian website <a href="http://tulal!ve.ba/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tulal!ve.ba</a> and unfortunately couldn't figure out any reference.</div>
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The red color should represent the magma chamber, the yellow and white supposed to be the sparkling of eruption. <br />It is easy to imagine, but make it real is difficult. I thought, because of the very clear base, all M&P part of the soap gonna be transparent, but the soap had different opinion.</div>
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Anyway, for the Melt & Pour part I used extra clear M&P base. <br />I made the red part with deep red mica and liquid red tomato. The yellow part colored by saffron powder and a hint of red tomato. I like this saffron powder very much, because using very little gives a great, powerful effect. The white part of the M&P soap got white pearl mica.<br /><br />Needed to work fast. Although it's autumn here in Sydney, the weather is still summery, about 30 degrees Celsius. The M&P soaps don't consider it. <br />To keep their liquid state, I put them into hot bath in the kitchen sink.</div>
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The hot bath wasn't enough and needed to put them to the microwave again one by one.<br />Finally I sprinkled red and rainbow glitter on top, imitating sparks.</div>
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To prevent real eruption this newly made soap spent one night in the fridge.<br />Here is the result:</div>
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Eden's Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640188448965704314noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3980806723206758748.post-16095002896058906252014-02-22T19:23:00.000+11:002014-02-22T21:25:42.144+11:00Embed Soaps Challenge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The summer here in Sydney, close to beaches is just gorgeous. I can't get enough of it.<br />
The sea, the sky, the sun, the moon and all of them above always amaze me.<br />
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This is the reason I've got inspiration of mother nature again for this new challenge.<br />
The theme is embed CP soap. In this case we need to make embeds, and later need to (em)bed in some different batch of soap.<br />
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I'm a lazy girl. Oops! Did I use the wrong word?</div>
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I just wanted to be productive, making more soap, cleaning up less. :) Or I can say to combine the pleasant with the useful.</div>
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That's why I made a bigger batch to be enough for all my project. </div>
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Here are the pictures, inspired me...</div>
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I need to use many different colors, so made an other soap which can swallow leftover colors.</div>
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Embeds are ready to go...</div>
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I'm not really happy with their colors.</div>
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First I've made "<b>sunrise-sunset</b>" with a slow motion batch, using six different colors. Unfortunately not many of them show up in the final product.<br />
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The fragrance I used is Cool Water type, combined with a bit of The Perfect Man type.<br />
Unmolded soap:<br />
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The result is here:<br />
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The next one is "<b>Sunset-Moonrise</b>". The nature is producing many beautiful wonder.<br />
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My dream did not come true...<br />
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The bigger cylinder actually made of two but these two different yellow just didn't show up. As I'm mostly use plants' colors for soap making, not familiar with different oxides and mikas.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally</span> <span style="font-size: large;">using leftovers</span></h3>
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and the result</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtF78aXEQOwwcf_JceN6PkQaFQoWwebbPMcXBvdV67tdQPwGPHuar_gTkEorxaFWCL3yys263_WTTD23IOtQr9G2JMM29NAZdf4ylRXu5qojqGLGfxLMTkDfNW4o1k5fruEUGupyKNUeI/s1600/dotted.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Polka dots" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtF78aXEQOwwcf_JceN6PkQaFQoWwebbPMcXBvdV67tdQPwGPHuar_gTkEorxaFWCL3yys263_WTTD23IOtQr9G2JMM29NAZdf4ylRXu5qojqGLGfxLMTkDfNW4o1k5fruEUGupyKNUeI/s1600/dotted.jpg" height="240" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All together</span></h3>
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Thanks to <a href="http://greatcakessoapworks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amy</a> hosting this soap challenge again.</div>
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Eden's Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640188448965704314noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3980806723206758748.post-11865465986349398132013-10-17T00:04:00.000+11:002013-10-17T00:04:32.686+11:00Dandelion Zebra Swirl ChallengeThough I'm very new to soap making, nothing kept me back trying this challenge.<br />
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The wonders of nature, the unbelievable colors always mesmerize me.<br />
I've seen this picture and wanted this color combination to be realized in soap.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">First attempt: <span style="color: #cc0000;">Aurora Borealis aka Northern Lights</span></span></h3>
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I used Catherine's (Soaping101) <a href="http://www.soaping101.com/soap-recipes.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bastile Soap recipe</a> at room temperature as it was recommended for a slow moving recipe for this technique.<br />
The scent I used is a new one from my supplier - "Aurora Borealis" type. It's simple divine.<br />
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There is nothing wrong with this recipe, I've already made 2 batches of soap using it.<br />
But now in the excitement of my first challenge I made plenty of mistakes: (as I'm aware of them so far...)<br />
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<li>need much more experience to recognize emulsification/light trace. This time I did NOT make it and the result is a crumbly batch.</li>
<li>miscalculated the ratio of mold vs soap batch resulting a flat figure.</li>
<li>more experience needed to get the same color-mix I dreamed of...</li>
<li>did not insulate this batch </li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The surface of Northern Lights</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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The surface of this soap was too shiny.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The base color supposed to be black.</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Second attempt: <span style="color: #cc0000;">Wisteria</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The idea of color combination of this batch was the colors of my lovely baby wisteria tree.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">It's spring in Sydney. My little wisteria tree already shed its blossom, but I still smell the wonderful sweet scent of flowers.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">My little wisteria in pot.</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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This time I used Amy's recommendation for a slow moving recipe:<br />
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<li>35% olive oil, </li>
<li>30% lard, (replacing lard with sustainable palm oil)</li>
<li>25% coconut oil,</li>
<li>10% rice bran oil,</li>
<li>5% super fat </li>
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The scent I used was a hint of Violet Blossom. Smells just like the flower she got the name of. Sweet, strong and very feminine.<br />
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The temperature of lye water and oils was 40 ℃<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Variation of wisteria theme</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">More wisteria</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Thanks for the opportunity I could be part of this challenge.<br />
There are still lots of things to learn about soap making, photography and blogging as well.<br />
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Wishing all participant best of luck. <br />
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<br />Eden's Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640188448965704314noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3980806723206758748.post-84375035135374929742013-10-16T11:32:00.000+11:002013-10-16T11:32:24.893+11:00All Beginnings are Difficult...I just started this blog for the reason of Amy's <a href="http://greatcakessoapworks.com/scc/index.php/dandelion-zebra-swirl-soap/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Dandelion Zebra Swirl Soap</b></a> Challenge.<br />
It is a Cold Process soap making challenge of technical knowledge.<br />
My pictures and the story of soap making needed some space to put up. That's why I started.<br />
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I like challenges. The life itself is a big, big challenge...<br />
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It's time to re-size and upload pictures because time is running out.Eden's Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17640188448965704314noreply@blogger.com0