Dandelion Zebra Swirl

This month’s soap challenge over at Amy Warden’s Great Cakes Soapworks is the Dandelion Zebra Swirl, created by Vinvela Ebony and named after her blog Dandelion Seifee. It’s not something I’ve done before, so was keen to give it a go. It should look like this:

To create this design you need something like a flexible cutting board (which is what I used) cut to fit exactly inside the length of the soap mold. Once half the base colour is poured, you insert the thin cutting board into the middle of the mold and pour alternate thin layers of the coloured batter down the cutting board. You then carefully remove the cutting board and pour the rest of the base colour (being careful not to disturb the coloured layers)

The reason for that rather convoluted description of the process is that I was concentrating so much that I completely forgot to take any ‘during’ photos <facepalm>

I have ‘before’ pictures:

I have ‘after’ pictures:

But no ‘during’ photos. Sorry :-s

Anyway, here it is: my first attempt at a Dandelion Zebra Swirl. The green (chrome green oxide) and red (pigment) colours thickened up a little more than I would have liked, but the yellow (lemon drop mica) stayed nice and thin. It’s fragranced with Apple Pie & Custard FO.

All in all I’m really happy with the way it turned out. Thanks as always to Amy for organising the challenge, and I’m looking forward to seeing all the other entries!

20 thoughts on “Dandelion Zebra Swirl”

Jenny

October 16, 2013

Gorgeous, Vicki! I recently made a soap using the Tilted Tiger Stripe technique. It’s similar to the Dandelion Zebra Swirl, but you tilt the mold at an angle and pour in alternating layers down the side of the mold instead of using a flexible board. I will have to give the Dandelion Zebra Swirl a try, too, someday!