The soap that I’ve long called ‘Love Spell’ is scented with a fragrance oil that is a copy of the designer perfume ‘Love Spell’ by Victoria’s Secret. Having recently applied for my bath bomb assessment, which includes bombs fragranced with the same fragrance oil, I was reminded that I can’t call them (or my soap!) Love Spell as it contravenes copyright. I knew this, and I should have changed it ages ago, but to be honest I just didn’t spend the time to come up with a replacement. As it was, when I received the message from my assessor, the new name came to me within a minute or two. Typical! Anyway, it will henceforth be known as Bewitched.
I first made it back in the summer of 2014. You can clearly see where the top portion, coloured with titanium dioxide, shrank more than the rest of the bar during the curing process. The top was simply spattered with leftover soap batter:
![Love Spell V1](https://thesoapmine.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/img_1443.jpg?w=300)
Soon after that I got into tiger stripe pouring, which I initially made with a flat top (and experimented with some black stripes):
![Love Spell V3](https://thesoapmine.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/img_6626.jpg?w=300)
![Love Spell V3](https://thesoapmine.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/img_3355.jpg?w=225)
And later with a textured top:
![Love Spell V4](https://thesoapmine.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/fullsizerender-42.jpg?w=300)
Finally I brought it in line with the rest of the range i.e. with a full bar drop swirl:
![Love Spell V5](https://thesoapmine.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/20160828_154643763_ios.jpg?w=300)
Day 23 of Blogtober 2016. I’m starting to believe I can actually do this đ
Thank you Sarah – it’s definitely more quantity over quality these days though. I’m enjoying it, and I’ll certainly be blogging more than once a month in future, but one of the (many, actually) things I’ve learned is that I prefer to write at a more thoughtful pace đ