Making Soap Dough and Watermelons Embeds

I made these soap watermelon slices for a youtube collaboration with Valley Soaps. You can see how she used them in her channel here:

I made a special batch of soap dough to make the watermelons, as I did not have enough red or green color soap dough. Below is my recipe for it. When I started making soap dough, I used the recipes found in the books from Sorcery Soap. (Which have a lot of tips for working with soap dough, by the way, so I highly recommend them). However; because the humidity is high where I live, I have found that the below recipe works better for me, with less stickiness. You could buy the soap dough already made though, and you will then have a feel of what it should feel like.

Recipe Oils, Fats and Waxes

Oil	%	Ounces	Grams
Olive Oil	30	4.8	136.08
Tallow Beef	30	4.8	136.08
Coconut Oil, 76 deg	25	4	113.4
Castor Oil	8	1.28	36.29
Shea Butter	7	1.12	31.75
Total	100	16	453.59

Recipe Totals

Liquid Required	4.01 oz	113.67 g
NaOH Weight	2.26 oz	63.94 g
Oil Weight	16 oz	453.59 g
Fragrance Oil Weight	0.48 oz	13.61 g
Superfat		5%
Total Batch Weight	22.75 oz	644.81 g
Lye Concentration		36%
Liquid : Lye Ratio		1.78 :1
Saturated : Unsaturated		45:55

Tools and equipment

Here is a link to the standard equipment I use.

Modelling equipment:

• This is a kit with several sculpting tools

• Acrylic Roller
• Tissue Blade (These are very sharp and will cut “tissue”; so be very careful with them, make sure to hold them from short edge opposite the blade)

Mold:

Half oval cavity mold

Colorants:

(Each below will be dispersed into 4 oz of soap batter)

1/2 tsp Savage Green Mica from Nurture Soap from Nurture Soap dispersed in light colored olive oil prior

1/4 tsp of Fluorescent Neon Green from Nurture Soap

1/2 tsp + 1/8 tsp of Trial by Fire Mica (Red) dispersed in light colored oil

1/4 tsp of Green Oxide

1/2 tsp of Winter White Mica or you can leave a portion uncolored

Fragrance:

None

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You can watch the making here: