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Making Mirror Glaze Soap Cakes with Soap Dough Making cold process soap by using the mirror glaze technique is similar to the cake decorating technique. This technique uses a combination of cold process soap, soap piping and tiny embellishments sculpted from soap dough. Soap Dough Prep Using soap dough I made last month and sealed […] Read more…
Making kawaii cupcake inlaid soap using 100 percent cold process soap. This soap project is a combination of several inlaid soap techniques used to achieve detail not possible with other methods of design. Goal The goal with this soap making project was to use several different soap making techniques to achieve a flat inlaid type […] Read more…
The October 2018 Soap Challenge Club “To Comb or Not to Comb” challenge gave participants two technique choices. I chose to attempt the “Not to Comb” technique for the advanced category. The method I chose used two dividers to achieve the comb look. After dividing the log mold, one end of the mold was propped […] Read more…
As a soap maker, one of the biggest problems making a batch of cold process soap can be soda ash! There’s a lot of advice out there on ways to remove soda ash, but very few helpful instructions on preventing soda ash on cold process soap. Preventing soda ash on cold process soap is very […] Read more…
I personally use tallow in soap making as much as I can when making cold process soap. Even though there are many people who are excited to use vegan only soaps, there are three compelling reasons for using tallow when making soap. Before we dive in, let’s back up a little to get a running […] Read more…