Cold Process Soap with Marbling effect technique

Teri shares another soap-making technique, making a cold process soap with marbling.

A marbling effect is a style that makes the quality of the soap’s surface to have streaks of color, similar to marble. In this case the soap showcases a bright vibrant red with black-accent streaks for contrast.

Let Teri from Tree Marie Soapworks help you with the cold process soap-making with tips and insights from her own hands-on experience. It is a great video to learn valuable quality-of-life improvements, techniques to streamline your process, and pointers to places to hone your craft.

Process.

1. Soap Batter
2. Oils and Fragrance
3. Colorant and Pigments
4. Mixing hard and liquid oils, fragrance, and lye solution
5. Molding the Soap
6. Cutting the Soap
7. Insights and Tips

Tools Used.

• Digital Scale
• Stick Blender
• Squeeze Bottle
• Infrared Thermometer
• Batter Bowl
• Funnel Pitchers
• Ceramic Side Sauce Dish
• Measuring Spoons (⅓, ⅛, 1/16 tsp.)
• Spatulas
• Glass Stir Rod
• Palette Knife
• XXL Heating Pad (for gel)
• Silicone Liner (for 18 bar mold)
• Wire Soap Cutter
• Detailing & Clean-up tool

Materials Used.

Total Oil Weight - 17.5oz

• Olive Oil (35%)
• Lard (30%)
• Coconut Oil (25%)
• Avocado Oil (5%)
• Castor Oil (5%)
• Confectioners’ Sugar
• Distilled Water (25% of water as percent of oil weight)
• Lye (NaOH) - 6% superfat
• Sodium Lactate (1t PPO)
• Essential oil mixture (6% of total, 75% pink grapefruit fragrance oil, 25% peppermint essential oil)
• Molten Lava Neon Pigment 
• Red Oxide
• Smooth Coconut Carbon (1.5 tsp PPS, Activated Charcoal)

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