Announcing the Petal Soap Challenge Winners
The technique for the October Challenge Club was to make petal designs inspired by a cake decorating technique. Erica Pence of Bath Alchemy originally came up with the technique, and Kenna from Modern Soapmaking recently did a video tutorial. Once […]
Stunning In-the-Pot Swirl Winners!
This month’s Challenge Club featured the classic in-the-pot swirl. This was the first swirl I ever learned back in the day, and it remains one of my favorites. A lot of soapmakers prefer a swirl that they have more control […]
Color Challenge Club Winners!
This month we did something a bit different for the Soap Challenge Club. Instead of doing a design, we worked on color matching – AND, we had two categories: natural and synthetic. Members who registered for the Club could create […]
Announcing the Hanger Swirl Winners!
Originally I thought we were going to do the secret feather swirl for the June challenge as many participants had asked to do this technique. However, once I started practicing, I realized this was a very advanced and difficult-to-duplicate process. […]
Congrats to Our Oil & Glycerin Swirl Winners!
Wow, wow, wow!! We had some fantastic, amazing, absolutely gorgeous soaps entered in this month’s Soap Challenge Club – so many great ones, in fact, that we ended up with ties for both 2nd and 3rd place, with so many […]
Check Out These Amazing Floral Design Soaps!
We had a great group of soapmakers participating in the Flower Power Soap Challenge Club this month! The challenge was simply to create a floral design with cold-process soap. There are lots of choices for this type of technique, including […]
Congrats to Our Drop Swirl Challenge Winners!
For March we had the largest number of Challenge Club members yet! Our technique was the drop swirl, which was definitely a popular one, as we had the highest percentage of members who submitted their soap as well. Members get […]
Challenge Club Winners Announced
When I chose the Taiwan Swirl as our technique of the month for the Soap Challenge Club, I had no idea how challenging it would be!! It appears to be this simple technique that anyone can do with amazing results. […]