I am a weekend face painter, and one of the designs I get the most requests for, are for unicorns. Since I attend so many birthday parties already, I figured once I have more soaps than I can use and gift to family (which I really doubt that day will come, but who knows), I could start giving it as a gift to the birthday girl, if the party is for a girl.
Sooooo, I planned on making a unicorn themed soap. My first attempt, not very successful (I will post a video of the partial making below). My second attempt, still in the future. For now, I thought I would perfect the horse making part, for what are unicorns if not horses with horns and wings?
I decided to make a mold because I thought that making a horse out of soap dough would be too time consuming to do 6-7 at a time (That is about how many bars I get out a batch). However, the more I practiced making the polymer clay version, the easier it became. Hmmmmm…. maybe I will not need the mold after all. Initially, I wanted to make the whole body, but the legs and all would not be strong enough for soap. Of course I could have made him sitting down, but the thought did not occur to me until after seeing the one Bee had made last year (which I found until yesterday) (Bee from Sorcery Soaps, the pioneer on soap dough in my eyes). So here is how it came about in the video.
and this was how my first unicorn soap attempt went (or how I make the unicorn shape, rather)
Soaps by Glenda 