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This was a time consuming soap!!! I wanted to make a batch of soap for our Love Collection that incorporated rainbow colors. The plan was to make heart shaped embeds in all the colors of the rainbow and add them to a solid color base. The top was then drizzled with mica mixed with water and swirled to create a beautiful rainbow! The final bars will have a solid brown base color due to the amount of vanilla in the fragrance I chose to use. I think I may retry this idea next year, but put the hearts in a...

Our Heartbeat Bar Soap was inspired by a baseline heartbeat. I wanted to try to create a soap that referenced the pattern of a beating heart! This beautiful bar soap was created using the sculpted layers technique. As you will see in the video, the fragrance oil actually slowed trace on me, making it a tad more difficult to get the perfect sculpted layers that I was looking for. A pencil line of red mica on top of the sculpted layers adds the look of a heartbeat, along side some adorable heart shaped embeds! To create this soap, a scraper...