You will need the following

Ingredients – Use a slow tracing recipe or you can use the recipe below

Coconut Oil – 270g

Olive Oil – 400g

Palm Oil – 100g

Sunflower Oil – 150g

Shea Butter – 80g

Sodium Hydroxide (Lye) – 137g

Distilled/deionized water – 330g

Colours and pigments – Midnight Blue Mica Powder, Aurelian Gold Synthetic Mica Powder, Hummingbird Blue Mica Powder and Titanium Dioxide

Tools – A Slab mould and a swirling comb

Safety – Please note : this tutorial assumes that you are proficient and experienced in cold process soap making. Please do not attempt if you do not have sufficient experience in making cold process soap.

Step 1

Slowly add the sodium hydroxide to the water. Be careful to avoid splashes. Stir in the lye until it is fully dissolved and make sure to seal it properly in a leak proof container. Set aside to cool to room temperature.

Step 2

Melt your solid oils and butter and then add your liquid oils and allow to cool to room temperature.

Step 3

Once the lye and the oils are sufficiently cool add the lye to the oil. Mix them together with a stick blender until you rich thin trace.

Step 4

Divide the soap batter into 1200g for the dark blue base colour. Separate 3 tablespoons of soap and add approximately 7g of Midnight Blue mica and briefly stick blend just enough to fully disperse the mica powder.

Separate 150g of soap and add 1g of Hummingbird Blue mica and stick blend or use a small paint mixer to fully disperse the mica powder. Then add to a small jug or squeezy bottle.

Mix 1g of Titanium Dioxide with 2 tablespoons of distilled water and then add that to the remaining soap. Stick blend or use a small paint mixer to fully disperse the pigment. Then add to a small jug or squeezy bottle.

Mix a small amount of Aurelian Gold Synthetic mica powder with a tablespoon of liquid oil from your recipe. Then add to a small jug or squeezy bottle.

Step 5

Check that the soap has reached thin to medium trace and pour the Midnight Blue mica soap into your mould.

Make sure that the soap is level.

Step 6

Start pouring your Hummingbird Blue mica soap in diagonal lines on top of the midnight soap. And then pour a second set of lines that cross the first lines to make diamond shapes.

Step 7

Repeat the same pattern parallel to the first lines with your white soap. But only pour one set of diagonal lines with the Aurelian Gold mica mixed in oil.

Step 8

Take your swirl comb and place it teeth down into your wet soap at the top edge of your soap mould.

Step 9

Drag the comb slowly toward you to create the pattern.

Step 10

Remove the comb and let your soap set using your preferred method.

If you have any questions about this technique please leave a comment below.

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