As promised, I added another
soap to the Soap for Hope line. War Pig represents all servicemembers and their
sacrifices to keep this country free. This was a no brainer for me as my
husband and I are both veterans. It took me a while to come up with a design
for this soap since not just any one will do. I wanted a red, white, and blue
theme and soon realized how hard it was going to be since there are sooooo many
patriotic soaps. I wanted mine to be special, plus I didn’t want to copy
someone else's work. After much research (and frustration) I finally got the
idea to do a design I hadn’t tried yet. The secret feather swirl. Here’s one
from handmadeinflorida.blogspot.com
Beautiful right? Imagine it
being red and white. That’s the idea I had. To have about 2/3 of the soap white
with the red and white feather swirl and 1/3 blue with white star embeds inside
and on top. I chose a pretty unisex scent
as I want this to be for both men and women. It’s a dupe of Karma from Lush.
Everything started out fine. I
had never soaped with this fragrance so I played it safe and didn’t bring the
soap to trace, just to emulsification. Well, apparently I didn’t play it safe
enough. It started to trace pretty fast without me even mixing it. I had barely
started the feather swirl and knew immediately I needed a backup plan for the
design. I had to glop the soap in for the swirl and had to move super fast to
get the embeds into the blue. Get this, I didn’t even stick blend the blue. At all.
It was that thick. So there are speckles of blue throughout since I never got
the chance to incorporate it all. This is what I ended up with
This is NOT what my vision
was. The blue is way lighter than I wanted because of not mixing and it was
only supposed to be on one side. This is what I get for using my new mixing
bowls with no measurements on them. I had too much blue and not enough white so I
had to cover the whole top of the soap with blue. I made it work though. Here’s
War Pig ready for duty in your shower
Needless to say, I'm disappointed. The next batch will definitely be my original design. Now that I know this fragrance speeds things up, I’ll change things up a bit. I didn't get the making of War Pig because nothing went right and my camera decided it was going to start the holiday weekend early and stopped working. It randomly stopped recording. I've always said there's a ghost in this house. Anyway, I did get to record a cutting video, check it out on my YouTube channel. Don't mind my fear of the wasp. That thing was HUGE.
Fifty percent all of proceeds from War Pig
will go to the Wounded Warrior Project. Buy a soap, help a veteran.
Happy sudsing!
