Things You'll Need:
- Soap making equipment
- Soap making ingredients
- Creative imagination
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Step 1
You can make a batch of soap with two layers or five. The layers can have different textures as well as colors and scents. To layer soaps, pour your soap into a mold (leaving plenty of room for additional layers), wait for the bottom layer to harden enough for the next layer to sit on top of it, then pour the next layer. The layers will bond together as the soap goes through its gel phase. To help the layers fuse together, lightly scrape a fork across the surface of the base soap before pouring the top layer. To make your layers even more exotic, put the mold at an angle as it hardens. Ensuring the base layer is firm, move the base to a different angle then pour the next layer, and so on. You can also make variable layered soap in a tube mold (such as PVC pipe) for a great effect.
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Step 2
Swirling, like layering, is a relatively easy way to spruce up your handmade soap. To swirl your soap, you'll make two batches of soap of contrasting colors. You'll pour the main or base colored soap into the mold, then you'll take a substantially smaller amount of contrasting soap and gently pour it in a drizzle manner over the top of the base soap. Then, very carefully, stir the two soaps together until it has the color blend you're looking for. Use a chopstick or plastic spoon to stir in the swirls. Your swirls will be more thin and incorporated into the base color if done at a light to medium trace. Your swirls will be more bold or chunky and less incorporated into the base if done at a heavy trace. Also, it is easier to swirl soap that is only one or two bars thick and in a shallow mold. To get a more marbled effect, do the same thing but just stir the two colors a bit more.
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Step 3
To make confetti soap, just shred your multi-colored, 5-day-old soap. Instead of putting it in the soap mold, stir it in like any regular additive when the soap is at a medium trace.
