Marbelized Soap

According to Kelly Ewing, author of Making Candles and Soaps for Dummies, marbeled soap aka swirled soap is just two or more colors mixed to together to acheive marbled effect. To make marbled soap:

1. Melt your soap base.

2. Separate a small amount of melted base into another bowl.

3. Add your main color to the bowl that contains the majority of the soap. Ewing suggests not to select a too dark of a color base because you want your contrasting swirl to be visible.

4. Add a darker color to the small amount of base.

5. Pour your main color of soap into mold.

6. Take the smaller portion of swirl color and pour it evenly over the top of your base soap in a zig zag fashion, trying to evenly pour over the top so all parts of the the soap will have both colors. Using a toothpick combine soap just like you would when making a marbled cake. Just place down into the soap and gently drag it back and forth to side.

7. Remove your soap from the mold after it hardens. This step can take anywhere from one to three hours.

Tip: What I have done to make marblized soap was to pour the melt soap into the mold and then add 1 to 2 drops of one color and 1 to 2 drops of another color in a different area of the soap and swirl the colors with a toothpick. If you want to add a scent then add it prior to pouring.