Tutorial: Drop Swirl Technique for Cold Process Soap (Traditional, Layered, and Thin Line)
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- čas přidán 6. 07. 2024
- Cold Process Soap Making Drop Swirl Tutorial--a 3 in 1 video! I love the drop swirl design technique. You can get some really cool looking soaps relatively easily! There are a couple different variations on the drop swirl technique. I've given them names (it's just how I refer to the techniques when I'm teaching--it doesn't mean that aren't or can't be called something else).
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0:00 A Drop Swirl Soap Technique Tutorial
0:05 Introduction to Drop Swirl
2:35 Traditional Drop Swirl
10:00 Traditional Drop Swirl w/ Hanger Swirl
11:45 Cutting Traditional Drop Swirl
13:12 Layered Drop Swirl
15:26 Layered Drop Swirl w/ Hanger Swirl
16:02 Cutting Drop Swirl
17:26 Thin Line Drop Swirl
21:23 Cutting Thin Line Drop Swirl
This video will show you have to make a Traditional Drop Swirl (as well as how to do a Hanger Drop Swirl variation, a Layered Drop Swirl (as well as a Hanger variation), and a Thin Line Drop Swirl. Each technique gives you a different look!
TRADITIONAL DROP SWIRL (Math)
STEP 1: Determining Soap Percentage
Step 1: Take the TOTAL weight of your batch of soap. We’re going to split it into two sections. One will contain 85% soap (our base) and the other portion will be the remaining 15% (our drop color).
Total Weight x 0.85 = Base Color
Total Weight x 0.15 = Drop Color
Example: My batch is 40 oz.
40 oz. x 0.85 = 34 oz. (White Base)
40 oz. x 0.15 = 6 oz. (Drop Color)
STEP 2: Determining Color Percentage
Take the amount of soap you need for your “drop color” and divide it by the number of colors you are using.
Drop Color Weight / Number of Colors = Each Color
Example: Our Drop Color will be 6 oz. and we are using 3 different colors.
6 oz. / 3 = 2 oz.
We will need to divide our 6 oz. into three cups of 2 oz. each and color them with our three colors.
STEP 3: Other Color Percentage
You can do different color percentage splits. I like 85/15 best and I don’t recommend going any higher (with the drop color) than a 70/30 split. Much higher than that and you start to lose the base color and things can get a little muddied.
90/10 Ratio
Total Weight x 0.90 = Base Color
Total Weight x 0.10 = Drop Color
80/20 Ratio
Total Weight x 0.80 = Base Color
Total Weight x 0.20 = Drop Color
70/30 Ratio
Total Weight x 0.70 = Base Color
Total Weight x 0.30 = Drop Color
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Excellent, thanks for your time.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the video very educational much appreciated
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for this detailed comparison, especially with the pictures! Enjoyed this!!!
Glad you enjoyed the tutorial!! Hope it helps some in your future soap making!
Good, I like this preparations
Thank you!
Interesting tips great video for learning soap designing. thanks
You’re welcome! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Can you guide me to a good recipe for keeping the soap this fluid while doing the drop swirl. My soap is thickening up too fast even when soaping at low temps.
You can try this recipe: czcams.com/video/VMxf2Txuxf0/video.html from this video. What's the percentage of soft to hard oils in your recipe. Generally I like to keep about a 60:40 split of soft to hard oils. I find that usually creates a recipe that will stay fluid. Tallow/Lard I find can accelerate trace so if you're using those maybe drop the amount you're using a bit (if it's over 25% of the recipe). There are lots of factors to what makes a recipe accelerate.
Where did you get your colors?
Most of my colors come from Just Pigments.