This is the last week for the The Great Cakes Soapworks soap challenge! I wish it weren’t over but I had a lot of fun learning new techniques. I need to practice them some more but it was great to participate and learn about some new techniques I wasn’t familiar with.
For my leopard spot soap, I decided to use the Loving Spell FO I had just received from Nature’s Garden. It smelled so delicious! Such a bright, sweet, citrusy blend. I thought it would be a great summery scent. As for coloring my leopard soap I used a neon pink colorant from NG as a main color and for the spots I used cocoa powder.
I had fun doing this challenge, but the spots didn’t come out the way I had planned. My son was trying to talk to me while I was creating the soap pattern and I got totally ditracted! Thankfully I think everything eventually came out ok.
The cocoa powder in the soap was a bit strong initially and I was a little concerned it would overpower the FO, but now it seems to have settled down.
For future soaps using the leopard print, I need to make the soap for the “spots” to be at a thicker trace, while the main base of the soap is fairly thin. At least, I think so. Not sure until I try again! Also, I got quite a bit of titanium dioxide spots in my light brown. I used a small amount of cocoa powder to color the middle part of the spots, but it still seemed to be too dark so I added a bit of TD to lighten and ended up with spots. Oh, well. I’ll need to plan differently next time! They smell great and it’s an interesting soap technique. Can’t wait until I can use the soap!
Looks great! I love pink and brown together.
It really looks great! Yes, you are right, you need thinner base colour portion and thicker smaller portions. I have mastered this. Don’t believe it? Check my blog out!
Beautiful! Love the way they turned out!
It turned out great, you got beautiful leopard spots!
Thanks so much! it was fun to do!
Very nice! From the pictures the TD and cocoa powder part look like gold sparkles! 🙂
Really nice color combo and I like the top too.
The inner spots look like shimmering gold! And the colors are so warm and beautiful. Like your soap very much.
Very beautiful! Nicely done!
Natalia
I appreciate all of the wonderful comments and encouragement! I enjoyed doing this technique and can’t wait to try it again!
Wow! They turned out really great! I’m impressed! Thank you for participating in the challenges!!