In The Pot Funnel with Wiggle Pour Soap Design (Clyde Slide Soap Design Tutorial)

The last post was for a simple pencil line layered cold process soap.  Today, we are going to explore a technique called In the Pot Funnel.  You may have seen this technique before, but if you have not then you should check out Lovin Soap's post called In the Pot Funnel with Wiggle Pour Soap Design (Clyde Slide Soap Design Tutorial).

Lime LaCroix Soap Tutorial

I have seen LaCroix at Safeway but I have never bought it before.  I did not know that you could use it for soap making.  The Soap Queen has used it as an ingredient for her Lime LaCroiz Soap recipe.  This is a very fruity scented soap that was inspired for an In-The-Pot-Swirl.

The Lazy Soap Maker’s In-The-Pot Soap Swirl

Photo by Lovin Soap

I would call myself a beginner in the realm of cold process soap making.  But I have to be honest, my first attempt at making cold process soap was doing an In The Post Soap Swirl.  Pretty daring for a first try but I did keep it simple...I used only one color pigment and the base color of the oils which came out a cream white.  For the first try it came out really nice.  To this date I have not tried more colors.  Do not feel ready for that, but if you are then I would recommend Lovin' Soap's The Lazy Soap Maker's In The Pot Soap Swirl.   I found the technique interesting since I normally took out alittle soap batter and combined with the color sand swirled it in.  She does it a completely different way?  For those experienced,,,,would you do it this way?

Rose Quartz Cold Process Soap Tutorial

Rose quartz is such a pretty stone.  It sometimes referred to as the heart stone. love stone and the "Crystal of Unconditional Love".  This beautiful cold process soap project from The Soap Quuen called Rose Quartz has such a gorgeous rose pink color.  This project used the In-the-Put Swirl technique which uses shades of white and light pink to emulate the natural pattern in the gem. It is scented with Brambleberry's new Rose Quartz Fragrance Oil, which is a fresh take on a rose scent.  It has notes of orange zest, jamine and soft sandlewood which makes this fragrance oil take on a modern traditional rose fragrances.

Lemongrass Swirl CP Soap

I have to say that I have that I have not used much lemongrass essential oil when I have made cold process soap.  I did use it once with lemon essential oil to create a lemon poppy seed batch. Everyone was raving that it smelled good enough to eat.  But if you are really into lemon grass then here is recipe from Wholesale Supplies Plus called Lemongrass Swirl CP Soap.  Besides including coconut and olive oils this recipe includes hemp oil, cocoa butter and shea butter.  IF you have never tried the swirl in the pot technique then you should try this one.