RobsCreations

I tried to make swirls many many times... of course without succeeding! I don't know whether this time I can be satisfied with the result, but at least I prepared some nice candles that a french friend described as 'des morceaux  de ciel' (literally 'bits of sky' ). How to do this? Once I've seen a video (or maybe it was a blog/webpage) in which someone was using the following technique but with many colours all at the same time. 1) Melt and pour plain (no colours, some fragrance if you fancy it) soy wax in your containers 2) when the wax is firm, make some holes with the help of a wooden  skewer  or anything pointy. Holes should be as close as possible to the container's walls, and should be running along 3/4 of the candle. 3) drop some candle-specific liquid colour in the holes  4) heat  the container's wall  with a heat gun or a hair dryer. This will partially melt the wax allowing the colour to blend in. ...

I will be making some Melt&Pour soap bars (and possibly one Cold Process soap too) in the forthcoming weeks and I was trying to get my head around the behaviours of soap colourants in different soaping processes.  Some of them are alkali-resistant while some of them are not, some can bleed through soap layers but some don't...  I now have a fairly good number of colourants (liquid dyes, micas, oxides and ultramarines) and I keep forgetting which, among them, is suitable for Cold Process soap making, which works better in Melt&Pour and which, on the other hand, gives great results in both processes... For my own sake, I decided to go through all the colourants I currently posses, to create swatches for each of them and to generate a table with all their features and behaviours. Definitely useful

Colours You have liquid dyes , solid pre-colored pellets  and blocks , as well as p owders.  You can also use crayons or go for the natural shade of the wax. For example, beeswax is yellow and soy wax has an opaque white color that I adore! Be careful: crayons are not professional products!  Smell You can use essential oils or fragrance oils . Let's see the main differences ... Essential oils Natural Therapeutic/healing properties More expensive than fragrance oils More volatile (they last less) Fragrances are limited Fragrance oil Synthetic (that doesn't mean they are bad) No healing properties Affordable prices for good quantities The smell lasts longer because they are not volatile Virtually unlimited fragrances They MIGHT contain added chemicals and be environmental hazardous Suppliers I fell in love with this online supplier the first time I visited the website. They are specialized in candle-making products (they have plent...