Not addressing the fact that this is the first time in nearly three years that I’ve posted, I participated in another soap challenge club!
This technique was called Marble Soap and I couldn’t resist. I love rocks and gemstones and I started polishing rocks with a fancy rock tumbler earlier this summer, so getting back on my soap train with a marble soap seemed like a good plan.
I did not take any photos during the process, but I did record a video! I actually made two soaps, one for the Natural Marble Soap category and one for a bonus category called Snazzy Rocks. Now, I think my entry for Snazzy Rocks could have potentially qualified for the Natural category, but of the two I made, it seemed the fanciest and least likely to be found naturally so I entered it in the Snazzy category and used the more natural looking white soap for my Natural entry.
This post will contain photos from both batches, the white one is the more Natural marble, the black one is my snazzy one. I did want to create a blue one that mimics sodalite because that’s one of the rocks in my tumbler right now, but I couldn’t get a suitable blue colorant in time. I’m also going to include links to my making videos. For the white soap, I have a partially time lapsed video on my YouTube channel. For the black soap, I made this one live on Twitch (I’m live every Friday making soap by the way, come join me to watch!) so here’s a link to that, it’s unedited and somewhat long because it captures the entire process live with audience interaction. The YouTube video is shorter (especially after I stop introducing the project) and shows the method in a more concise way.