Natures Garden and Me

                       (2 by 2 inch block.) 

I've been dreaming of making a soap on a rope and if you've been following me I just got a big first time order from Natures Garden soap and candle.  I ordered the Wild Wild West fragrance and love!!! It smells like leather.  This is gonna get that lasso around your cowboy ladies!  I have a new recipe I love which you'll find in my previous post.  A good working recipe and again everything at room temps.  This has the addition however of instead of 7 oz of castor only because I ran out at 3 oz :( I threw in 3oz of orange butter.  That came from New Directions. It set up a bit quicker then the previous batch of cherry bomb but still workable.  With that said I separated the batch in half used brown oxide for colour in the one and added white titanium oxide in the other.  I did the brown first then mixed the white just from the stick blender (I spatulad the excess) some brown turned the white tan.  Perfect!  Poured in a bit of tan on one side of mold, then brown on the other side after two good pours I put in ready tied natural jute rope tied with a good knot like a lasso. Pushed them in to where I thought was good spacing between each other and then spooned remaining soap alternating colours.  I used a small wooden skewer with a spatula end (I save them from kabobs I buy at Walmart) they are a perfect tool 

See the end that's what I use and the pointy end for details swirling etc.  save them!  This was a bit messy and tedious getting around the rope but as I spooned I secured the rope as I went along.  I had dried orange peel and cloves that I ground real fine and sprinkled on the top after I was satisfied with the result and am pretty pleased so far I can't wait now to open it up.  Come back and see and thanks for reading and following me along.  Looks kinda creepy right now but also pretty cool !  Giddy Up Y'all