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Thursday, August 17, 2006
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For a contest I entered recently:
Step 1: Color some melt-n-pour base to the same pink as the logo. Let set. Trace design onto soap, then carve out letters with pocket knife since you can't find the X-acto:
Step 2: Embed the pink soap letters in a layer of plain white melt-n-pour, to hold them steady and symmetrical:
Step 3: While mixing lye and water and allowing to cool in the fridge, begin whipping coconut and olive oils in the mixer until they resemble whipped cream.
Step 4: Add lye to whipped oils, freak out as it all deflates and looks like a failure. Continue making batch of regular cold-processed soap anyway, just in case.
Step 5: Pour batch of regular cold processed soap into mold, and once firm enough to hold things up, insert the slab with "Craft:" written into it up against one side of the mold.
Step 6: Calm down as batch of whipped soap starts looking less failure-like.
Step 7: Top cold-processed soap with whipped soap, reserving a little bit to color pink for a swirl. Frouf it around like whipped cream. Sprinkle with pink cranberry seeds, purple blueberry seeds, and blue poppy seeds.
Step 8: Next day, remove from mold.
Step 9: Carefully slice away thin layer from side of slab, revealing the "Craft:" logo inside.
Result: Looks like fudge, but it's SOAP! With "Craft:" written in it! Yay.
2:56:29 PM 
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2006
Melanie Teegarden.
Last update:
8/17/2006; 2:57:23 PM.
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