When a soap does not turn out as expected, I usually end up embellishing it. Lately I have had a lot of soap design fails, especially when experimenting with pull screen discs. So I have gotten to practice my post decorating skills a lot. It is actually very easy. Especially if you have soap dough that turned out to be sticky. That stickiness or extra moisture really does help it adhere to a new bar of soap, and I use it as a glue too, for other embeds.
Along with glitter, soap dough has been the redeeming grace for these soaps, for example:
And also for the soaps below. I had made them in a DIY vertical mold, that ended up leaking everywhere and it was quite a disaster, what was meant to be a pine tree ended up looking like a Rorschach test. I am much happier with the White Christmas look they now have:
Before & After:
Here is the video of the making:
Supplies: (Some of these are affiliate links)
- White soap dough
- Super Sparkles Enviroglitter
- Silver Holographic glitter
- Shimmering White Cloud mica
- Sculpting tools
These are other soaps that benefited from some embellishing:
Before:
After:
The trees above are actually embeds, (cold process embeds) that I already had and used soap dough as a thick glue past to adhere them. It helps if you scratch and remove some of the top surface of the soap before, to expose a more moist area to which the soap dough can attach to.
Do you have any other tricks to rescue “ugly” soap?
