Soap Layering the Easy Way

Tropical Tangerine - Soap Layering

Soap layering is a simple technique to make your soap look a little more fancy pants.   When you have your soap at a very light trace, split the soap batter into two equal parts.

Then stir in the required soap colours by hand to ensure that the soap batter doesn’t thicken too much.

Once your colours are well mixed, it’s time to get creative.  Start with a single colour layer on the bottom of your soap to make a base, then begin layering.

You can see in example below, we have started layering our Tropical Tangerine scrub soap at a medium trace, so that we could spoon in big lumps of batter to get the desired effect.

Soap Layering

Fill your mould to the top, then top with your cardboard protector and wrap in old towels to saponify and gel for 48 hours.  Make sure the mould is well insulated during this phase.

Tropical Tangerine - Soap Layering

You can then cut your soap for the further 4 weeks curing.  Doesn’t it look amazing!  Kim used our Wavy Soap Cutter to get the corrugated effect.

Tropical Tangerine - Soap Layering
Tropical Tangerine – Soap Layering

In this bar we were very light on the colour as we wanted a pastel shade that resembled lime and tangerine.  The poppy seeds were added before we split the soap batter into two even parts.  This ensured even distribution of the botanical because there is nothing worse than a big clump of poppy seeds to spoil the overall aesthetic.

We were very pleased with the final product.  The soap layering was just how we envisioned it.

After a full six weeks of curing, it will appear in gift packs that we will be selling on this site.

If you are thinking of making your own soap and want to try this layering technique, we have an amazing soap making kit that includes everything you need to make 3 batches or about 30 bars of soap.  Check out our Deluxe Soap Making Kit for further information.

Deluxe Soap Kit 3kg

 

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