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Angry Clown Salt Bars CLASS
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Re: Angry Clown Salt Bars CLASS
I can’t get my mold into the oven since it’s too large, so I improvised with heating pads and towels as you see here. I put one heating pad under the bottom of the mold in a towel before we begin. When you get to the step you put your mold into the oven, the same principle will apply with wrapping, but you’ll skip the heating pad step.
Heating pad sandwiched in a towel
Mold on top of it
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Set out your cups for color. Add per cup one color up to the number of colours you plan on using. Here you see 9 cups cause I like to live on the dangerous side and did nine colors.
I used a mix of ultramarines, select shades and silver mica for this batch. For my mold I used about a tablespoon of each ultramarine and mica powder. You'll adjust your amounts accordingly, but remember you do not want to have colored bubbles in the end result.
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I also use a tiny bit of water to mix my colors. You can use oils instead it it works for you by drawing off a tiny bit of your soaping oils and using that instead. I use a condiment bottle of distilled water to make my life easier.
Grumpy likes easy.
Here are all the colors mixed with water and ready for soap batter. Put them back to the side, we'll get back to them in a short while. I leave my sticks in so I can stir and not get confused on what stick belongs where. I'm blonde and found this is fool proof if they are where they need to be to begin with.
Make sure all the lumps are out!
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Again, this is my setup and how it looks before I begin to mix the lye and oils. It’s a nice work flow for me, but you set up in whatever way is familiar to you. I like having all my colors close to the mold as I begin to add them in a bit later.
I'm a systematic no nonsence soaper, so I try not to stress over the small stuffs and think how you set up the flow is key for this particular multi color swirl process to go smoothly. You'll have to work quickly, but if you used a fragrance oil that doesn't accelerate, you should be just fine.
Remember, it just soap and if you screw it up, they can't take away your birthday. 
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Now that your colors are mixed an off to the side, put your gloves and glasses on, roll up your sleeves and get ready to rumble! (Small sip of wine if need be to steady the fingers and crank up the ipod!)
I always put my pot of oils into the sink because I always make a mess, but you can soap per your usual method. Here we add lye water slowly. Notice the whisk. I don’t use the stick blender for a multi color swirl unless the FO is a super slow tracer and even then I don't do it till later after all the colors are mixed.
Starting a nice emulsion as it turns from clear to opaque. Just mix this enough to get everything incorporated well. You want a watery thin mix through most of the early process.
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Add in your FO of choice. This one is a custom mix of 8 different EO’s and FO’s that are super slow to trace. It’s kinda fruity, like Fruit Stripes Gum. Yummah.
I used a total of 5oz of FO for the weight of my oils only not including the weight of the salt. My oils totaled 80 ounces.
If you miscalculate and use enough fragrance oil for the TOTAL weight of the batch, not just the weight of the oils.... you’re gonna have seeping bars that are totally oversaturated with fragrance oil.
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Take an empty cup or ladle and start adding soap batter to each color in your cups. I usually go for about 8 ounces of soap mix for each color but don’t weight it out; you don’t have the luxury of that kind of time!
Mold size will dictate how much soap batter you use per color. Make SURE you save enough for the base of the soap and don’t get carried away here. A little goes a LONG way.
All colors with soap batter added, but not yet mixed...
Mix up your colors and leave the sticks in or out. I usually leave mine in till I get ready to add that particular color to the mix.
Colors all mixed and ready and the trace should still be like thin pudding. Don't mix too much when you do this, you can speed up the trace if you're not careful.
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Back to your pot now. We're going to do a little bit of an ITP (In the pot) swirl to make sure you get color throughout most of your bars.
Add about ¼ of each color into the pot in a circular pattern. You’ll be doing a combination of ITP (In the pot) and ITM (In the mold) swirling for this particular batch.
Remember, pour high to get the colors down into the batter and pour close to get them on top. You want a combo of this method to get the color thru the mix. At this point, you should still have a fairly thin trace.
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