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Achieve this "frosted" look by first pouring a little bit of cream colored soap into the mold, roll it around, spritz with alcohol, and pour your next color. Spritzing with alcohol allows each layer of soap to bond, creating a flawless, complete bar of soap.
Pop your mold into the freezer to speed up demolding time. The molds have no problem going from very warm to your freezer. They withstand temperature changes. Allow your soap to set until it is room temperature, then - pop it out!
Don't be afraid to experiment with color and layers, as long as you spritz with alcohol (rubing alcohol in a spray cologne bottle is fine!)between layers, you can layer as much as you want. Just melt 45 seconds at a time in the microwave for vegetable based glycerin soap. Add color and fragrance and there you have it - a masterpiece!
Here is an example of layering, the deep red for the raspberries was poured first, followed by a tan "crust" followed by a white mini ramiken. I rubbed a little clear glitter over the raspberries to achieve the "glaze".
A few tips to get started if you are new to soap making. Melt a few ounces of clear glycerin. Pour equal amounts into four plastic cups, use food coloring to get red, blue, green and yellow as concentrated as you can. Don't scent this batch.
When cooled, you have the primary colors in blocks that you can use to chip away at to add to clear or white soap to mix and match into any color you want.
With this method, you avoid overcoloring large batches of white or clear melt and pour - a little goes a long way!!
Another little "trick" to dampen colors that appear too neon, use a little brown to dampen pink or yellow or blue, or green, whatever color you have. By adding a little brown, you achieve more earthy colors.
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