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Keep shoppingCold Process Soap making #3 - Soap Swirling Made Easy
2,165 students
Cold Process Soap making #3 - Soap Swirling Made Easy
How to make soap using swirling techniques to create dramatic and stunning looking soaps - tips and tricks for success
Created byShona O'Connor, Howorama Inc.
Last updated 10/2025
English
What you'll learn
- Easily create soaps with stunning swirl effects
- Discover the factors that affect trace, cause your soap to accelerate and can prevent you from creating successful swirls
- Tailor your recipes to give you more time to produce the swirled effects that you want.
- How to bring out your colours in your soaps to create dramatic effects.
- How to make your soap look professional by preventing soda ash
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Course content
15 sections • 34 lectures • 2h 27m total length
Requirements
- Basic knowledge of Cold Process Soap making, including working with different recipes and using colours. This course does not teach how to make soap, and does not cover any safety requirements.
- You need to be able to calculate simple percentages
- An understanding of the different stages of trace and how to prevent acceleration is required.
- Prior use of colours and fragrances, and the ability to design your own recipes is essential.
Description
This course will teach you how to use the Cold Process method to make stunning soaps using intermediate colour techniques.
You will discover the secrets to creating successful swirling techniques in your soap
You will learn how to control trace and prevent your soap from accelerating and ruining your swirls
You will learn how to really make your colours stand out in your soaps.
You will find out how to make your soap look more professional by preventing the formation of soda ash
You will learn how to do the following swirling techniques:
Drop Swirl
In the Pot Swirl in individual and loaf molds
Taiwan Swirl
Tiger Swirl
Funnel Swirl
Column Swirl
Peacock Swirl using traditional method and using a quick method with a swirling tool
You will get downloadable plans to my own personal swirling tools, so that you can do swirl designs quickly and effortlessly.
Who this course is for:
- The soap maker who wants to easily create stunning swirling designs while avoiding common pitfalls.
- The soap maker who has basic Cold Process soap making experience and would like to learn how to take their skills to the next level
- The soap maker who has tried unsuccessfully to create swirls, and wants to master these skills