11 Best Tools to In The Pot Swirl Cold Process Soap

Author: Urjani Chenier Mickle

Date: 04 May 2022

Time: 4:55 pm

Update: 10 May 2022

1.) Cooking Spoon

A cooking spoon is used to stir a small amount of colorant or colorants into a batter of cold process soap. The spoon is used an instrument to stir the colorant in an infinity pattern or in a counter clockwise direction once.

2.) Bamboo Schrewer

A bamboo schrewer is used to stir a little amount of mixed color into a cold process soap batter. Just like the cooking spoon is used to mixed the colorant into cold process soap to give it a beautiful color, a bamboo schrewer is used in the same way. Once, the bamboo schrewer is placed into the soap batter, it is used to manipulate the colorant in a large figure eight pattern.

3.) Tea Twisted Metal Spoon

A tea twisted metal spoon in cold process soapmaking is used to stir colored cold soap into another colored or uncolored cold soap batter.

4.) Stainless Steel Pot

To make large batches of cold process soap a large stainless steel pot or stock pot is used to hold the vast majority of oils, butters and waxes used in cold process soap making. A smaller stainless steel pot is sometimes used in addition to a large stainless steel pot or stainless steel stockpot to mix the sodium hydroxide (lye) into distilled water, filled rain water, well water or sea water. A small amount of soap from the stainless steel pot is taken out and poured into a stainless steel pitcher, stainless steel bain marie with hands, measuring cups or measuring shot glasses. The soap batch inside the large stainles steel pot and the smaller pot is then colored with pigments.

5.) OCuisine Mixing Bowls

OCuisine mixing bowls are used in cold process soap making to place the hard oils, soft oils, and /or waxes, with lye water solution to create cold soap.

6.) Pyrex French Measuring Beakers

Pyrex measuring cups from France are used in cold process soap making to mix powdered color pigments with a little amount of water water.

7.) OCuisine Measuring Cups

Ocuisine measuring cups are used in cold process soap making as a vessel to effectively blend powdered colorants with a small bit of water. The colorant is used to color the cold soap batter before pour the cold soap into ready prepared molds.

8.) Stainless Steel Pitchers or Bain Marie with Handles

Stainless steel pitchers or bain marie are used as a divider vessels to hold soap batter that has been poured out of the stainless steel pot or mixing bowls for the pretense of coloring each soap batter. After the desire color or colors have been achieved for each soap batter, seperately, each colored batter is poured back into the batter that is still inside of the glass mixing bowls or stainless steel pots.

9.) Pyrex French Shot Glass Measuring Cups

Pyrex french shot glass measuring cups are used to blend powdered colorants with a small amount of water. The colorant and water mixture is equally blended together and free of clumbs. The fluid colorant is then added to the cold soap batter, stirred to color the soap to the desired color.

10.) Durex Shot Glass Measuring Cups

Tiny Durax French shot glass measuring cups are used to evenly blend powdered colorants with a little bit of warm water.

11.) Stainless Steel Mixing Bowls with Rubber Bottoms

Stainless Steel mixing bowls with rubber bottoms are used to mix any colorant that is used for color cold process soap batter with a bit of warm water evenly.

Additional Tools You Will Need to Make Cold Processed Soap

Soap Mold

Freezer paper

Freezer paper tape

Taper dispenser

Cream ointement like

Scissors

Meter box

Small metal ruler

Cheese cutter

Bamboo beveler

Vegetable peeler

A Wooden tray or a Woode crate or soap rack

In Français Marbrage and in English « In the pot swirl »

Depending on your batch size of cold processed soap, take a small amount warm water and a very minute amount of your desired natural colorants such as , oxides and or micas into your small measuring cup of a little bit of warm water. Mix well with a small spoon, a bi glass mixing stick, a small whisk, a small palate spatula, a small palate knife, or a small hand blender until your colorant of choice is evenly incorporated into the warm water. If your colorant isn’t evenly disbursed into warm water it can effect your cold processed soap batter. The consistency of your colorant and warm water mixture should be non clumpy and smooth. If you using more than one color to marble your soap, repeat this process until you have the desire amount of individual colorant you want to use to marble your soap. It is good idea to use a stirring tool for each colorant or clean thorough your stirring tool when mixing your colorants with warm water. You can end up with muddied colorants if you don’t thoroughly clean the utensils you are choosing to stir your colorant into warm water with.

Choose your colorant if you have more than one to begin with and gently pour your colorant inside your soap batch

Take a large cooking spoon, Spatula or bi glass stirring instrument place inside the your pot of cold process soap and precede with your utensils to stir gently in a clockwise or counterclockwise position. Once or twice is a good enough amount to incorporate your colorant into your cold processed soap.

To add more than one colorant to your in the pot swirl