This soap features the beautiful Circling Taiwan Swirl technique, along with vibrant colors for an eye-catching bar!
Ingredients
10″ Silicone Loaf Mold
Multi-Pour Tool for 10″ Silicone Loaf
33 oz. Swirl Recipe Quick Mix
10.9 oz. Distilled Water
4.6 oz. Sodium Hydroxide Lye
2 oz. Electric Lemonade Cocktail Fragrance Oil
Zippy Blue Pigment
Nuclear Orange Pigment
Titanium Dioxide
Fizzy Lemonade Colorant
Instructions
SAFETY FIRST: Suit up for safe handling practices! That means goggles, gloves and long sleeves. Make sure kids, pets, and other distractions and tripping hazards are out of the house or don’t have access to your soaping space. Always soap in a well-ventilated area.
FRAGRANCE PREP: Measure 2 ounces of Electric Lemonade Cocktail into a glass, fragrance oil safe container. Set aside.
COLOR PREP: To ensure that the Titanium Dioxide blends smoothly into the soap batter, we recommend micronizing it before dispersing it in oil. Please note this is an optional tip but it does help with the titanium dioxide clumping in the soap. =) To micronize colorant, simply use a coffee grinder to blend the colorant to break up any clumps of color and prevent streaks of white from showing in the final soap. We like to use a coffee grinder that has a removable, stainless steel mixing area for easy cleaning. Then, disperse 1 teaspoon of the colorant into 1 tablespoon of sunflower or sweet almond oil (or any other liquid oil). Then in separate containers, disperse 1 teaspoon of the Fizzy Lemonade Colorant, Zippy Blue Pigment and Nuclear Orange Pigment into 1 tablespoon lightweight liquid oil. Use a mini mixer to help get rid of clumps.
MOLD PREP: Place the two end pieces of the Multi-Pour Tool for 10" Silicone Loaf into the mold. Then, insert the three long divider pieces into the end pieces. Tap them firmly on the bottom of the mold to secure.
Slowly and carefully add the lye to the water and gently stir until the lye has fully dissolved and the liquid is clear. Set aside to cool. For this recipe, I highly recommend using sodium lactate. Sodium lactate will hep you remove the soap from the mold much faster. Use 1 teaspoon of sodium lactate per pound of oils in the recipe. For this recipe, you’d add about 2 teaspoons sodium lactate. Add the sodium lactate to the cooled lye water.
Fully melt the bag of Swirl Recipe Quick Mix until there is no cloudiness. Shake to mix and measure 33 ounces into your mixing bowl. Once the lye water and the oils have both cooled to about 120-130 degrees (and are ideally within 10 degrees of each other), add the lye water to the oils and stick blend until you reach a very light trace. Be careful to not over stick blend this recipe, as you need plenty of time to swirl.
Split the soap into four equal containers. Add all of each dispersed colorants (titanium dioxide, Zippy Blue, Nuclear Orange and Fizzy Lemonade) into each container and use a whisk to mix in the colorants.
Pour the Electric Lemonade Cocktail Fragrance Oil evenly into each container of soap. It’s okay to eyeball it. Use a whisk to fully mix in.
Begin pouring each color into the four sections of the mold in the order of yellow, blue, white and orange. I like to pour a small amount of each color in equal amounts, to keep each section filled evenly. I have found that if one section is completely full and the others are empty, the soap is more likely to leak into the other sections.
Continue pouring each color until all the soap is in the mold, and the colors are filled equally. Work carefully, but quickly.
Carefully, pull the three long divider pieces up and out of the mold. Try to do this as “cleanly” as possible. In the video, you can see some of my colors got into the other sections. This is fine, and once the colors are swirled together, you can hardly notice. But, the swirl look a little more crisp if there are no drips. Pull out the end divider pieces as well.
Insert a dowel or chopstick into the bottom of the mold, and swirl back and forth down the length of the mold.
Clean the chopstick/dowel and insert it into a corner of the soap, all the way to the bottom of the mold. Begin swirling the chopstick or dowel around the outside of the mold, in a circle. Continue this motion over and over again to “pull” the swirls in a circular motion.
Continue moving the chopstick around the mold until you’re happy with the effect. The more you swirl, the more curved the design will be. Eventually, there will come a point where the swirl isn’t moving anymore – this is a good place to stop.
Spritz the top of the soap with 99% isopropyl alcohol, and cover the soap to insulate if you’d like to promote gel phase. Allow this soap to stay in the mold for 2-3 days. Then cut! This design benefits from a horizontal cut; the bars shown here were cut horizontally. The Wire Soap Slicer makes this process incredibly easy! If you don’t have this tool, see the horizontal cut in action in the Infinity Swirl Soap Video (around the 11:05 mark). Once cut, allow to cure for 4-6 weeks. Enjoy!
Recipe by Soap Queen at https://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-body-tutorials/cold-process-soap/create-circling-taiwan-swirl-soap/