Looped Swirl Soap Recipe Card

Beautiful Looped Swirl Soap - Cold Process Recipe by Phyliss Hoefelmeyer

Swirling is a soapers term for stirring color through lightly traced soap. Since swirling is really stirring, the less you stir, the better the color definition will be.

To create a beautiful loop swirl the raw soap needs to be very liquid. Be sure that you choose a fragrance oil that will not accelerate trace. Gather all of your supplies so that they are at your fingertips and always line your mold before you mix the oils and lye.

Hardware:
Stainless Steel Pot
Bowl for measuring Oils
Bowl for measuring Lye
Ladle
Qty 2 - 4 Cup Measuring Cups
1/4 - Teaspoon Measuring Spoon
1-Tablespoon Measuring Spoon
Pitcher for Lye Mixing
Stick Blender
Swirling Tool

Ingredients:
34 oz Lard
20 oz Palm oil
20 oz Olive oil
17 oz Palm Kernel oil
5 oz Castor Oil
31 oz Distilled Water
13.10 oz. Lye
2 oz Distilled Water (for mixing with colorants)
3 oz Bramble Berry Lavender FO
(3oz = 6 tablespoons)
1/4 to 1/2 tsp. of Ultramarine Violet
1/8 tsp. of Ultramarine Blue
Swirling Tool – anything goes: chop sticks, end of a plastic spoon, end of your thermometer

Beautiful Looped Swirl Soap - 2 - Cold Process Recipe by Phyliss Hoefelmeyer

Directions:
1. Mix your lye so that it can start cooling.
2. Measure your oils and melt them in the stainless steel pot.
3. Using your measuring cup, mix the ultra marine violet, ultra marine blue and the 2oz of distill water. Set aside.
4. After the lye and oils have cooled to between 110 and 115 degrees, slowly pour lye into the oils.
5. Using stick blender, blend the oils and lye to a light trace.
6. Add your fragrance oil. Mix lightly with stick blender.
7. Ladle 4 cups of raw scented soap into measuring cup with the colorants and water. Mix with stick blender. Pour half of the colored soap into the second measuring cup.
8. Pour remaining uncolored raw soap into the mold. Then, starting with the first cup, quickly our the colored soap lengthwise in a back and forth pattern (about 3 lines) then do the same across the width of the mold. The colored soap should our through the raw soap.

Beautiful Looped Swirl Soap - 3 - Cold Process Recipe by Phyliss Hoefelmeyer

Directions:

9. With the second cup, wait about 2 min. then quickly but gently pour the remaining soap in the same patterns across the length and width of the mold. Gently pour soap so that the color sits on top of the soap in the mold.
10. Time to swirl! Make sure the end of your swirling stick is touching the bottom of the mold at all times. Starting in the top right corner, going across the width of mold, start making the loop pattern. Try not to overlap the loops. I do 3 loops per row and usually 4 rows per mold. It's like scribbling - when you reach bottom left corner, you are done.
11. Cover your mold and insulate for 24 hrs. After 24 hrs. cut slab into bars. Allow soap to cure for at least 3 weeks.

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