{"id":7869,"date":"2012-03-24T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatcakessoapworks.com\/handmade-soap-blog\/?p=7869"},"modified":"2021-03-26T11:50:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T17:50:11","slug":"soap-challenge-week-1-link-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatcakessoapworks.com\/handmade-soap-blog\/index.php\/soap-challenge-week-1-link-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Soap Challenge – Week 1 Link-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Soap Challenge has already exceeded my expectations! Every day this week, there have been new people asking to join in! Officially, there are now 76 people from around the world who have told me they are participating, and there could be others who are unofficially participating as well – which is totally fine! If others want to join us along the way<\/a>, that will be just fine too. Each challenge is a stand-alone technique, so there’s no reason to keep someone from jumping into whichever challenge we happen to be doing that week. <\/p>\n

And now it’s time to reveal the fruit of our labor this week! I can’t wait to see what everyone has been up to! I challenged each of the participants in this week’s Soap Challenge<\/a> to create a beautiful soap using an in-the-pot swirl method. Each person could choose their recipe and how many colors they wanted to attempt. <\/p>\n

For my first soap, I swirled just one color: white! I used the Vanilla Hazelnut fragrance that I’ve been using in my Whipped Shea Butters for several years now. It’s a very popular fragrance, so I thought I would try it in a soap. The scent isn’t quite as strong as it is in the shea butter, but still quite yummy!! The fragrance oil is already starting to discolor to a nice taupe brown to create contrast with the white swirl:<\/p>\n

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View of the tops of the Vanilla Hazelnut soap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Better view of the sides - Vanilla Hazelnut soap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In case you are wondering why the photos seem smaller than usual, I’ve actually used larger 800x600px photos this time, but wordpress will only let me choose medium or full size to insert in the post, and the full size is too large. So…if you click on a photo, it will open the larger size in a new window.<\/p>\n

And now, the one you’ve been waiting to see since Sunday…Mango Melon!!<\/p>\n