MAKING NAUTILUS SWIRL - Cold Process Soap

This video will who you step by step how to make the Nautilus aka Ocean Wave Swirl in cold process soap. This is a modification of the Taiwan Swirl in which one additional step of swirling. It's important to use a soap recipe and fragrance oil that has a slow trace. You will also need a soap mold with four dividers to achieve the final design. The fragrance oil that I use for this is Brambleberry's Ocean Shores.
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Always wear eye protection and gloves when using lye and making cold process soap
Recipe
Coconut Oil 30%
Lard 30%
Palm 20%
Castor 15%
Shea Butter 5%
Super Fat 5%
Water: 25%
Lye 36.5%
33.5 oz oils/48.66 oz. soap batter used in the mold
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I blended only until emulsion/very light trace which kept the batter fluid and easy to work with for this design.
Micas used in this recipe:
Blue Sky (Nurture Soap) - 1/4 tsp
Klein Blue (Nurture Soap) - 1/4 tsp
Proud Peacock (Nurture Soap) - 1/4 tsp
Fragrance Oil - Ocean Shores (Brambleberry) - well behaved, no trace acceleration, no discoloration