It's November - Great Cakes Soapworks Challenge!

The Great Cakes Soapworks Challenge - NOVEMBER!!!


This month's theme is the "Tall and Skinny Shimmy", as presented by the amazing soaper, Tatiana Serko. I have followed her blog and drooled over pictures of her soaps on Pinterest, so I was super excited to learn ANY of her techniques.

The technique is pretty straightforward. You have 7 colors and you tip your mold each time while pouring the color along the wall of the mold on the lower side.

Here are all of my materials lined up.

I built my mold as directed in the tutorial, mixed my 7 colors, and measured my oils.

One thing that I was really excited about was that Tatiana suggested not using the stick blender for this soap. I have never made soap entirely with a spatula, but I really loved it. I just felt like I was in charge, not the soap! It didn't take long to reach emulsion, and I really got a good feel for what the soap was doing.

 Here are all of my colors, ready to be poured. This was where I started to get a little nervous, but I took the plunge and got started.

This is what it looked like on the top when I was done. The black and orange stripes were super cool to me because the black and orange were the 2 bottom colors. I could not wait to see what this thing was going to look like. I figured that even if it didn't do the "shimmy", that it would still be super cool.

 Cleanup was a breeze because I used all paper cups.

The mold has been opened. What will it look like on the inside?

This is the part where I did a happy dance in the middle of my kitchen! Seriously! Look at those shimmies!!

 I wanted to do a gray and brown combo on one side and color on the other, kind of like Dorothy going from Kansas to the Land of Oz. So, I have aptly named this soap, "Welcome to Oz".

I am thrilled with the result and excited to share it with my customers as soon as it is cured.

And here they are - all cleaned and shined up! I am really happy!

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