Take a pot of cold process soap.

Remove a small part of the prepared soap mixture to a small bowl.

Add red and yellow liquid soap coloring.

Decide that’s not enough and add some more.

Mix it up.

Pour the bigger pot of soap into the mold.

Spread the smaller bowl of soap over the top.

Run a fork down through it a little bit to push some of the color down.

Ponder if this is going to turn out gross.

Wrap it up and let it sit.

Unmold.

Slice into it.

Interesting!

I like it!

What I was going for here was an effect reminiscent of an apple. The apple cider fragrance oil itself lends a yellowish color to the soap, and the soap coloring in the part spread on the top looks like the apple peel.

Note: I used the same recipe you can find here in my hot process tutorial, but I made it with the cold process method so I could play artsy with it a little more.

Just showing off my latest homemade soap.

This is peppermint soap.

Not that there are any actual peppermints in it… But it’s made with peppermint essential oil for the fragrance.

I made this soap with the cold process method, but it’s the same basic recipe that you can find here in my hot process tutorial.

To make the swirls, I separated out a small amount of the soap and added red soap coloring, then layered that in as I was pouring out the rest of the soap and used a knife to swirl it through the soap. I’ve got it sitting out now to cure. I think it turned out really pretty!

Cold process takes a little more patience than hot process soap, and here lately I’ve been working on my patience.