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Hanger Swirl Challenge

6/18/2014

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The June Challenge from Amy, of Great Cakes Soap Works, is a Hanger Swirl. I have used this method before but each time I am pleasantly surprised at the varying results. A Hanger Swirl uses a hanger just like the name says. You can use a fat hanger or a wire hanger. I put two wire hangers together.
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The mold and doubled hanger are ready to go to work.
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The soap is poured and the hanger is set inside to create the swirls.
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Colorants and Black Raspberry Vanilla fragrance
This has been a busy month for me so I wasn't sure I would have time to create a new version of a hanger swirl but I found a bit of time today. 

First up was a beer soap using Brambleberry Oatmeal Stout fragrance. I have used this fragrance before in a plain soap and thought it might be fun to try the hanger swirl instead. I used a beer called Spotted Cow and added goat milk as well. I changed my recipe a bit too. This batch has olive, coconut, palm, shea and castor oil alone with a high oleic Sunflower oil. The colorants are a brown sparkle mica and titanium dioxide. 

Next up I thought it would be fun to swirl a Black Raspberry Vanilla fragrance . I had a mica called "oh, La La"  that I have been wanting to use and thought that would work with this along with some activated charcoal and a bit of titanium dioxide. 

For both batches I poured the main color into the mold then did a line of the two colors on either side of the molds topped off with more of the main color. Next I took the hanger and brought it across the mold moving from the bottom to the top side to side, then down and up moving from side to side again. 

The remaining bits of soap color were used on the tops and then scultped. The soap was put to rest and I noticed they were heating up more than usual today, most likely due to the heat and humidity outside. 

Stay tuned... 
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Oatmeal Stout - ready to cut into bars
The loaves were just a bit soft still when I put them in the cutter though it has been 24 hours since molding. I think the humidity we are experiencing has something to do with it. I went ahead and cut them regardless being very careful so that I could get a photograph for the challenge. They look a bit shiny too but all is good and now they are on the curing racks!
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Oatmeal Stout Hanger Swirl
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Black Raspberry Vanilla Hanger Swirl
Well what do you think? 
Which variety would you have chosen for this month's challenge?
7 Comments
Debbie
6/21/2014 12:33:42 am

Both are lovely, but I'd also have chosen the oatmeal stout ......

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amy
6/21/2014 12:46:52 am

Beautiful swirls! I love BB Oatmeal Stout! Both are beautiful! Wasn't this a fun challenge?! =)

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Amy Warden link
6/21/2014 02:28:00 am

Oh wow - they both turned out fabulous!! I think you made a great choice, but you couldn't have gone wrong either way. :) When you said you were making a beer soap with a swirl, I held my breath because my beer soap sets up like lightening - but that could be because it also has clove in it! Yours turned out great!

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Madame Propre link
6/21/2014 03:40:21 am

I also prefer the oatmeal as the other colour set is more commonly used. It is always daring to work on shades on brown.Hanger swirls are always such surprises! You seem to have done basically twice the same movements, but the designs are very different.
Great soaps indeed!

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Ecoviolet Soap link
6/21/2014 06:51:02 am

I like both (cool that you did this in a beer soap!) but my favorite is the black raspberry vanilla. I just love the colors together.

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Zahida link
6/22/2014 01:24:03 am

Wow - both are gorgeous!!! Great job!

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Lisa link
6/22/2014 09:43:33 pm

Both are great! And 2 of my favourite fragrances. But I agree that the shades of brown in the beer soap really set that one apart. Yum!

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