Clam Shell Technique

Dear all,

The soap challenge club for March 2020  is a very beautiful and difficult technique called: the clam shell.
It is a In the Pot Swirl technique with a very concise pouring technique. Our guest teacher was Tree Marie Worksoaps, which created for us wonderful videos.

I am going this time for the regular category. I love how the clam shells look like when being cutted horizontally. I made a small batch and here you have the pictures.

Recipe: Hautsache Mild by Petra Feddeck

• 29% safflower oil HO
• 29% olive oil
• 22% coconut oil
• 16% rice oil
• 4% cocoa butter

• Water: 25% water in relation to the total quantity of fats
• Fragrance oil: Kumquat from Aztec
• Colours: 

• Rocket Red Day from MMS (Majestic Mountain Sage) 
• Nautic from Umakeitup

When I poured the soap, it looked like this:

I also made other attempts these days:

Here you can see an attempt, which turned out very well, but which does not show a lot of clam shells.