Probably the trickiest part of making these strawberries out of soap dough, was getting the right red for the soap dough. Red is famous for being difficult to get in cold process soap, and since soap dough should not go through gel process, it is even trickier. I used Nurture Soap Really Read mica for it, and nothing else. It is a quite pricey mica, so I extended its life by using a core of peach color soap dough. This is a trick from my polymer clay making days. To make large figures out of polymer clay, people often used aluminum foil cores (tightly made into a ball or whichever shape), then they would just cover this with clay. This also made for a lighter piece. Of course I could not add aluminum foil to soap, so a different, -easier to make color- of soap dough came to the rescue.
I read somewhere that deep colors in soap are usually staining or will have colored bubbles, and that was why it was best to save it for small decorations. Which means this is perfect for soap dough embeds.
The actual shaping of the strawberries is fairly easy, if it is your first time though, I advise you practice with play dough or polymer clay (Premo Sculpey) first. Practice making balls, logs, ovals, cones, all the basic shapes over and over, this will help your hands develop the famous “muscle memory” that athletes have, except yours will be with the tiny muscles in our hands!
Here is the video of the making of them:
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