Soap Curls
Soap curls are one of the easiest and, in my opinion, prettiest things you can embed in your soap. You can use whatever type of soap you’d like to make the curls - opaque melt and pour soap base, bars that you’ve got left over from other batches, or even the bar of Lever 2000 sitting in your bathroom cupboard. The curls themselves don’t need to be coloured or scented unless you want them to be.
All you do is take a vegetable peeler and slowly scrape off an even strip from the edge of the soap. The soap will curl on its own. Simple! Take your soap curls and scatter them in your molds, then cover with clear melt and pour soap base that’s been coloured and scented in whatever strikes your fancy. The soap in the picture here was scented with Cucumber Melon fragrance, and the colour is a vivid green (which looks a little washed out - no pun intended - in the photo, but up close it’s actually very pretty).
You can experiment with different colours of curls for a different effect. A rainbow of colours embedded in clear soap base makes a pretty confetti-type bar, or use seasonal colours with matching scents for holidays or special occasions. You can also use soap curls to decorate novelty bars, as you would use chocolate curls to adorn a cake.
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