Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Berry Pomegranate Soap

If you have not seen my video making soap with Berry Pomegranate juice yet you might want to watch it first before reading further, click here Left Over Holiday Juice - Berry Pomegranate
I was anticipating the oxidation of the juice that would turn my soap final color to some sort of tan.  Tan undertone can be challenging when you try to do a nice color swirl because it just put everything in a muted tone.  When I first cut the soap it was a nice butter beige base color and my pink/red swirl looked so nice and in harmony.  I thought the titanium dioxide I put actually worked.  But no I spoke too soon!  Now that it's few days later after it's cut, the nice soft buttery beige had turned to toffee.  I used neon hot pink hoping to compensate the oxidation effect failed also.  It has turned my pink into some kind of orange.  The only color pulled through is the merlot red mica... sigh.  Oh well, time for me to accept the outcome!  At least I tried!


See, this was the first cut right out the mold.  Look how nice that buttery beige looked!   

9 comments:

  1. It may not be what you were hoping for but for me, seeing it for the first time, I think it's so pretty!

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  2. I love the final colour! Those swirls stand out beautifully and I bet it smells gorgeous :)

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  3. I think that's fabulous! And I actually prefer the colour now to colour when cut ... don't beat me! I love it and love the swirls too. This is really pretty.

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  4. I'm not liking the scent right now. Hopefully it's the juice and will go away eventually... sigh

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  5. I agree with Celine, I like the color now compared to when it was fresh cut. Way pretty.

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  6. Funny how soapers are so much tougher on themselves than others. To me it is perfect. Candy taffy and yummy.

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  7. I know I know... I guess it's about when it didn't come out the way I imagined in my head I get upset. LOL

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  8. I will side with the others also... deeper, richer color looks great! Hopefully the scent will pull through for you!

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  9. How lovely! I think they look splendid! However, I know how it is to be expecting your soap to do one thing, hoping for success, and then it turns some color that you didn't intend. It's always kind of a bummer, but then your customers don't care you you feel better about. LOL!

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