EASY “Mother’s Day” Cold Process Soap with the Convection Swirl and Pressed Flowers

EASY “Mother’s Day” Cold Process Soap with the Convection Swirl and Pressed Flowers
This video explores the Convection swirl technique further (Remember the flowing flower swirl?- • The Flowing Flower Swi... ) to make a lovely botanical art soap. Artistic patterns can be formed by pouring colored, liquid soap into other liquid soap in a fashion that exploits a natural process called convection. Also, I was inspired by Liz from How to look pretty ( / howtolookpretty ) to add some soft, thin dried flowers to the top of the soap. The dried flowers I used came from here: www.amazon.com...
Other, nice dried flowers can be found here: www.amazon.com...
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You can even make your own pressed flowers in the microwave!:
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NOTE: The flower on this soap definitely discolored as the soap cured. In the video, you can see the color change on some of the soaps in the picture of all the soaps together. The bottom left three soaps show a dark flower rather than the bright purple that I started with. The colors of all have become darker over time. I think they are still pretty with the dark flower on the green, black and yellow background. They add a level of detail to the botanical look that would be difficult to obtain with painting. But just be aware that the bright colors will not stay bright but will turn dark.
When you pour liquid soap into a container with more liquid soap, it will follow a complicated flow pattern produced by what is called convection.
convection = diffusion + advection
That is, convection is the sum of fluid movement due to bulk transport of the media (like the water in a river flowing down a stream - advection) and the brownian/osmotic dispersion of a fluid constituent from high density to lower density regions (like a drop of ink slowly spreading out in a glass of water - diffusion)
Or, in other words,
Convection is the collective motion of particles in a fluid and actually encompasses both diffusion and advection.
Advection is the motion of particles along the bulk flow
Diffusion is the net movement of particles from high concentration to low concentration.
I think that the patterns formed in these soaps are mainly due to advection.
Also, when flowing soap hits the bottom of the mold, it pushes soap upwards (bulk transport flow of soap) in a splay allowing the potential to make interesting patterns of color.
Your questions and comments are welcome
Soap Recipe
18 oz of Organic Coconut Oil
18 oz of Olive Oil
15.15 oz of Refined Shea butter
13.7 oz of Filtered Water
7.2 oz of Food Grade NaOH
Cotton ball size piece of Tussah Silk
1 Tablespoon Jojoba oil
2.0 oz Perfect man fragrance oil
My colors came from here: nurturesoap.co...
Music :” Motion Design” By Cecil_L
found here: audiojungle.ne...
The Logo Sound was custom made by sound engineer and original composer Vadym of Nuclearmetal-Thank you!
Vadym is one of the best modern composers in the world (in my opinion) and resides in Lviv, the cultural capital of Ukraine. Lviv was the center of the historical region of Galicia and is now the home of many world-class cultural institutions, including a philharmonic orchestra and the famous Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet. The city is known as a center of art, literature, music and theatre and is where festivals and concerts are being held every week.
Nuclearmetal keeps adding more and more REALLY wonderful songs here: audiojungle.ne...
My other videos are here: / @fromgracetoyou