Hi Everyone. I hope everyone is staying safe and well. I hope you like the soap and as always if you have any questions or comments please leave them below and I will get back to you. Thanks for watching.
These are beautiful! Thank you for so generously sharing your skills and talents. I especially admire your creative use of non-specialized equipment. Many very pretty projects are demonstrated with expensive equipment. That’s discouraging to beginners. Plus, I just like being able to reuse things that otherwise would be trash. Using my creative brain eases the depression my logical brain suffers. Best wishes for your health and that of your dear family, from Maggy
I love your finished soaps but they are very involved, usually pretty complicated and I do not have the patience to complete designs such as yours. Kudos to you for your creativity!
Thank you very much Cathy, ooh yes I'm always one for making something if I can. I think part of it is impatience, when I want something today or exactly a certain way, it's often quicker to do it yourself. Stay safe and well :-)
Thank you Lisa. I tried Tatiana’s rimmed soap and found it rather difficult to get the rim even. I love that you simplified the process. I can do this with the method you used with the shorter tubes and loaf mold. It is one of my favorite soaps!! Thank you again for making this easier to do!!
That's excellent news, yes pouring the thin layer can be tricky. I like the sort tubes as well as you can get your hands in and make sure you've smoothed the join down well. I do hope you try it again and have lots of success :-)
Absolutely riveted to this video and enjoy your flair for teaching. The drawings are also helpful and your tips and attention to detail are rare. Thanks so much! Can’t wait for the next one.
AW, such a lovely comment Steve, thank you so much that's really kind of you and thank you for taking the time to leave a comment :-) Stay safe and well
The first utensil you used to cut the thin rims is a cake slicer, to cut thought a cake cut evenly all the way through evenly. Such beautiful soaps and the beauty is you can change up your outside colours and center colours depending how your feeling. Once again very beautiful and creative bars of two types
Thank you so much for your lovely comments as always Tanya. The tool is definitely not a cake slicer though. I actually removed the saw blade that it came with and replaced it with the guitar string. I did go back and research it and found out it is actually a coping saw.
Thank you so much Mike, that's so kind of you. Oooh yes do give it a try. We are all safe and well here thank you, I hope you and your family are too :-)
Lisa, just when I think you can't impress me any more, you go and pull a stunt like this! This is really spectacular! I love the colors, the pattern, and the way you improvise tools. Such ingenuity!
Ooh yes do try, gelling the soap and then warming it slightly before you try to bend it really helps.I hope you and your family are keeping safe and well :-)
If I was sitting in your class room, I would have a great smile on my face and be in awe of what I was witnessing. So creative and pretty as always...💖
Dear Lisa, another beautiful soap, what an amazing technique this peacock swirl. I really like it and will try to make the square soap. Thank you for sharing your wonderful talent❤️
Thank you Mag, oooh yes the peacock swirl, it's such a beautiful swirl and not too much faffing about (well you have to wash squeeze bottles) I was pleased how well it worked in the loaf mold, the design goes beautifully all the way through, not something that always happens with a design that's typically done in a slab mold. Do have a go at the peacock I bet you fall in love with it :-)
Never knew how much effort - from getting ingredients measured, to the actual pouring & cutting - goes inyo this kind of craft soap making. 🤓💪 Very interesting! Thanks for posting!
Beautiful! I am not a soap maker but I’m learning so I can make all the women in my family some for Xmas this year. Your instructions are fantastic! Take care and stay safe! Hugs, Summer xo
AW, such a lovely comment, thank you so much that's really kind of you to say and thank you for taking the time to leave a comment for me :-) You stay safe and well too
Thank you for your video, you made a very beautiful soap , I ll try the peacock design this week ..... for the cylinder soap I ll wait ... I m not ready yet even if your explanations are very clear ! Have a nice and safe day !
What an impressive tutorial. You are very thorough and make everything look so easy to do giving confidence to those that have yet to try these techniques. Thank you for doing such a nice walk through of each step. The end result is gorgeous!
AW Renee, thank you so much for such a lovely comment. I do hope it does encourage people to try a few new things, that would be perfect. Stay safe and well :-)
Mmmm.... you made that look deceptively easy. Almost like I could do it.... I realise that there was a great deal of thought and preparation involved. I’ve watched almost all your videos now and I do enjoy the way you explain and present. Thank you for all the work you put in, it’s very inspiring. I’m off to make a batch of lemon soap. But not like this! Maybe a drop swirl, with some nice embeds......🌼🌝🌼
Your videos are incredibly informative and wonderful to watch. I love how concise you are in instruction and technique. Your videos are unmatched in, the best!
You are an amazing soap maker! Your attention to detail and your patience are skills I aspire to. Thank you for sharing with us! I think I'm headed to the garage to find some PVC😁
Everything about your work is so detailed. I absolutely love to see your videos. The knowledge you share is priceless. Keep up the Excellent Job you do 🥰🌈 Stay safe.
OMG , this is fabulous😍😍. I am a complete new bie to soap making and I'm in awe. I buy Stephenson's the melt and pour clear and shae butter bases, don't think I'm brave enought to make mine from scratch , something to aspire to !!, thanks so much for sharing,
I am seeing this for the first time. Excellent and amazing creative person you are! I never knew that soaps can be done this way. Became your fan truly
I’ve been seeing the pics of this lovely soap, and now I’m finally getting to see the video for it. That was a cool trick to cut the layer off the top like that. I don’t think I’ve seen it before. Beautiful work! 😀
Thank you so much Whittany, TBH I just wanted a way that was better than pouring an unpredictable thin layer or the waste of using a slab, but now I've worked it out and done it, it seems so sensible :-)
He, he, that's cool. I must admit I do like to try to make things out of what I've got. I think some of it stems from not wanting to wait for things to be delivered, but I also love to repurpose things.
Thank you so much, so pleased you liked this tip, yes just warmed very gently, you still have to bend it pretty quickly after you get it out as it cools and goes stiff again quite soon, your hand heat helps as well though. Stay safe and well :-)
AW, such a lovely comment, thank you so much that's really kind of you and thank you for taking the time to leave another comment for me, I really appreciate it, we are well here thank you, I hope you and your family are too :-)
I have just recently discovered you. Am now bingeing!! Thank you for this video you have given such clear instructions for every step and explained so succinctly. Thank you for the generous gift of your time and knowledge 🥰🥰
Ohh, thank you, I do think it is some kind of saw for metal, it did have a very skinny blase, I took that out and swapped in the guitar string. Thank you for your kind comment :-)
Thank you so much kathy , I'm so pleased you found the video helpful, it makes it worthwhile making videos when people benefit from them. Stay safe and well :-)
Hey Joy, aw I wasn't around then (well not in the soap challenge anyway) so never did it, oh and yes I remember from trying to plane a slab when I did my soap curl soap, that was not a fun experience. The loaf mold worked really well. I hope you and your family are keeping safe and well :-)
Thank you so much Barbara, that's so nice of you. I must admit I can be a bit of an over thinker and sometimes I even lay awake in bed trying to work out a soapy problem or understand how something actually happens. I have to understand everything, I'm not very good at just accepting information if it doesn't make sense. I'm also a big 'systems' person, if something is awkward or tricky, if I can I will try to improve it, so hopefully some of these things can then help others out too. Stay safe and well :-)
I Dream In Soap regarding the lying awake and thinking, do the same, usually it goes like this: next time do this and this differently. That is why I admire you bc you think of the problems ahead and I just run into them...😂
I believe you can do anything with soap. Girl I'm trying but I just ain't and never will be as good as you, and all the other soapers on here. I actually thought about making videos to put on here but I'll never be as talented. People will be watching if they watch something very boring. LOL Good job though. I think I'll wait before I try this one.
