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I found some really economically priced silicone ice cube
moulds in the shapes of small butterflies, only $2.00 per mould with 13
small butterflies to each mould. My fertile mind began to kick in and I
thought these would like nice in a bar of soap so I purchased a few of them
to make up this tutorial.
I got to work and made up some un-fragranced cold process
(CP) soap. I used 5 colors which I thought would compliment each other
while set in a base of white CP. The butterflies are approximately 30mm X
20mm
Here you can see the different colors in the silicone
moulds waiting to set.
The soaps popped out easily enough and I had planned on
using my soap planer to slice them into thin slivers but the soap was too
fresh and they were curling up so I used one of my small paring knives with
a thin blade to slice them up by hand. They then kept their flat shape even
if they were a little thicker than I had anticipated.
I let them dry out for week.
All ingredients ready to go, along with the sliced up
butterflies.
The soap is now at 'trace' ready for the addition of the
butterflies.
I fragranced the CP soap and added the butterflies. I
realized I could have had had more butterflies in the amount of CP I made
up. Its amazing just how much of the re-batched butterflies you can fit into
a small amount of CP.
The mix was poured into the mould box and using a gloved
hand :-) I poked the butterflies down to the bottom of the mould box so they
would be flat as I didn't have enough of the butterflies cut to give a good
solid filling so to make sure I had at least one good solid covering of the
butterflies I pushed them to the base.
You can see how bare the surface looks after unmolding.
The base is a different story :-) Pushing them into the by
hand has paid off!
Now they are ready to push out of the cavities.
The finished bars turned out just as I had visualized them
in my head.
Tutorial Provided by Terry "Nizzy"
Nisbet Owner and Operator of Nizzy
Molds Please visit her site and show your support!
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