{"id":7391,"date":"2012-01-04T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T01:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatcakessoapworks.com\/handmade-soap-blog\/?p=7391"},"modified":"2017-09-25T10:01:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T16:01:25","slug":"valentines-soap-naming-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatcakessoapworks.com\/handmade-soap-blog\/index.php\/valentines-soap-naming-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentines Soap Naming Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hope you all had a nice holiday – I know I sure did! I’m feeling revived and refreshed, and ready for a new year! I will have lots of re-stocking to do this month, but I thought I better get started on the Valentines soaps first. Besides, it’s way more fun to be creative and make something new, right? <\/p>\n

My hubby collaborated with me on this project, starting with the scent blends. For the first time ever, we have a girls Valentines soap and a guys Valentines soap. The girls Valentines soap is scented with a blend of plumeria and Michael Kors type perfume. Plumeria (common name Frangipani) grows in the tropics and is known as Hawaii’s most popular lei flower with a rich, sweet fragrance. The Michael Kors type fragrance blends beautifully as it is also comprised of white florals, warmed with delicate top notes of bergamot, apricot, peach, and plum, finished with a touch of exotic spice, velvety woods, and sensual skin musks.<\/p>\n

For colors, I went with white, shimmery silver, and two tones of pink. <\/p>\n

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Girls Valentines Soap by Great Cakes Soapworks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After I mixed and poured the light pink layer, hubby sprinkled on the thin line of fuchsia pink mica. Then I poured a light layer of white, and alternately poured the dark pink, silver, and more white. Once it was all poured, I used a bamboo skewer to swirl the top just a bit more. I was afraid that using two floral fragrances might be sort of tricky, but they were very workable!<\/p>\n

Here are a couple more photos:<\/p>\n

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Close-up of the Girls Valentines Soap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Girls Valentines Soaps - more tops<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The guys Valentines soap is a very woodsy blend of bamboo, teak, rainforest, sandalwood and cedarwood. I combined several fragrance oils, as well as an essential oil blend and cedarwood essential oil. The depth of this fragrance is amazing! Completely earthy, very masculine and sexy.<\/p>\n

The colors for the guys Valentines soap are dark brown, reddish gold, silver (to match the girls soap), and natural. I used the faux funnel pour technique<\/a> – partly because it almost looks like wood grain, and partly because I just love the way it turns out! <\/p>\n

No two bars are alike:<\/p>\n

\"Guys<\/a>
Guys Valentines Soaps by Great Cakes Soapworks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It seemed like the soap was a little too thin as I got started pouring. Like the layers were mixing together. There are only a couple places where you can see how they mixed, and I think it actually adds to the character of the bar:<\/p>\n

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Blended colors on the Guys Valentines Soap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s another one of my favorites:<\/p>\n

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Close-up of Guys Valentines Soap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

About the Contest:<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Here’s where I need your help. These soaps need names! Hubby and I tossed around a few ideas, but couldn’t settle on anything. We did like the idea of a PIRATE THEME<\/strong> though. Here are the guidelines:<\/p>\n

1. Use a pirate theme if possible, however other names will also be considered.
\n2. Please submit names for both soaps that fit together.
\n3. Keep it tasteful, people!
\n4. Submit your entry(ies) in the comments section below. (Yes, you can submit multiple entries. It’s not necessary to use a separate comment for each entry.)
\n5. Please do NOT submit entries via Facebook or email – it’s too difficult to keep track of them.
\n6. Comments will close this Saturday, January 7 at 10pm CST<\/p>\n

After that I will pick some of my favorites and create a poll so that everyone can vote for the winners! Winner will receive a free set of Valentines soaps<\/strong> as soon as they are cured and ready. (I’m hoping for January 31, but could be later. These are huge bars!)<\/p>\n

UPDATE: COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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