Layered Soaps Techniques

I found this recipe and wanted to share it with you.

This recipe creates two bars of luxurious layered soap. Use your two favorite fragrances to make your soap. Some of Kelly's favorite combinations are mango and strawberry, violet and musk, chocolate and orange, cinnamon and rose, and raspberry and peach.

Ingredients:
2 4oz. bars unscented glycerin soap
10 drops fragrance oil (your choice)
10 drops fragrance oil (your choice)
2 drops different coloring (ex. 1 orange, 1 blue)

Steps:
In a heavy saucepan over low heat, melt one bar of glycerin soap until liquefied. Remove from heat and stir in one drop food coloring and 10 drops fragrance oil. Pour half of the mixture into two soap molds, filling each mold halfway. Wait twenty minutes. Melt your second bar of glycerin soap until liquefied. Remove from heat and stir in the other drop of food coloring and fragrance oil. Pour this second layer on top of the first layer (already in molds). Let soap set for three hours or until hardened. Your finished bars should come out half one color and half another.

I also found these links that you may want to check out to create layered soaps:

Teach Soap (http://www.teachsoap.com/layersoap.html)

Soap Crafters (http://www.soapcrafters.com/rnbow.htm)

From Denise's Yadda Yadda Blog
(Part 1 http://goplanetearth.blogspot.com/2008/03/melt-and-pour-soap-making-pouring-soap.html; Part 2 http://goplanetearth.blogspot.com/2008/03/melt-and-pour-soap-making-pouring-soap_07.html; Part 3 http://goplanetearth.blogspot.com/2008/03/melt-pour-soap-making-pouring-soap-in.html)

Soap Teacher (http://www.soapteacher.com/StoreCategory.aspx?CategoryID=17&CategoryName=Layering+Soap)

DIY (http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/ca_crafts_projects/article/0,2041,DIY_13721_5713671,00.html)

In research this I found out that using a fork to scrap between layers like in the demo from Teach Soap makes the next layer adhere much better.

If you are looking for other recipes, check out some of the links in the side bar or check in my archive. There are alot of recipes in both places. I am always looking for new recipes to post on my blog, so please return in the future.