Great Cakes Soapworks February, 2014 Soap Challenge

I'm participating in this month's soap challenge sponsored by Amy of Great Cakes Soapworks. This challenge is to use soap embeds in cold-processed soap. The embeds have to be made of cold-processed or hot-processed soap (not melt and pour soap).

This was a fun challenge and I learned a few things, as usual. I've made hot-processed soap before, but it was never this easy. The microwave method  for hot-processed soap as demonstrated by Amy works great. For this challenge I wanted to make small, white soap balls and cover them with colored soap to make larger, colored balls that look like fruit loops when the bars were cut. I ran out of white so some of my soap balls had to be solid.

Colorful Soap Balls

The balls were then placed into a batch of white cold-processed soap. Easy and fun!

In the Mold

I used the Fruit Loops fragrance oil from Wholesale Supplies Plus and it smells fruity and good. I didn't want to forgo using goat's milk in the cold-processed portion since I normally add goat's milk to my soaps. The drawback is that the hot-processed white soap turned out whiter than the cold-processed white soap. For this reason I may try using the cold-processed method for making embeds in this particular soap next time, but I'll definitely be trying this technique again soon!

Cut Bars Showing Embeds