Circling Taiwan Swirl - Majestic

Soap #29 Circling Taiwan Swirl in purples
made 10/01/2016 ready after 10/02/2016

There was a time when I didn't think I was competitive, I wasn't interested in entering competitions. In my other life as a 'longarm quilter' I started to enter competitions back in 2012 and have been quite successful. I never thought that I would enter competitions with my new hobby of soaping. I only started to make soap in the summer of 2015, yes, I went and found myself another addictive hobby.

Amy Warden of Great Cakes Soapworks is hosting an online soaping challenge, I was enticed to try it. The competition is for a soap made in a loaf shaped mould with three dividers giving four spaces for coloured soaps. I had never used this new pink liner, I made a wooden mould to make it more stable and cut some dividers to fit the liner. (See my previous post for my practice session).

For this batch I chose colours more to my liking, purples, green and yellow, pleasing to the eye
Violet mica
Magic Yellow mica
Lavender mica
Apple Green mica
Fragranced with Lavender and Litsea Cubeba essential oils

Stick blended to emulsification, ready to section off...

Coloured micas mixed in......

Colours placed in order...

After the swirling

The cut

This is the cut photo I entered into the challenge...I named it 'Majestic'

I'm really pleased how these turned out...