Just when I thought I couldn’t love her anymore, she shuts down plastic waste like a boss! Thank you for being a wonderful example and a wonderful human, Lisa 😊
My favourite 3 tips in your video today 6:16 Wobbly wobbly embeds 10:40 Maths headaches off setting embed oils 13:30 Multi pot swirl in squeeze bottle hassle averted
What a clever way of doing this! For me, using embeds would be so much easier. Side note from this 80’s kid: seeing all the perfectly round, chalky white embeds instantly reminded me of candy cigarettes😂
I know exactly what you mean and thought that as I was rolling them all out, the sweets had a little red bit painted on the end too. Gosh could you imagine them nowadays
I did the straws first and then tried your method with soap dough.. so glad I had your large extruder gun I just bought. I put on one of the fimo discs and went to town making huge lines of soap dough.. Beautiful soap!
I have some stainless steel tubes that my grandmother used when she was a cake decorator. I used them already to make polka dot soap after watching another you tuber. They are way more versatile than the straws. Perfect sharp holes everytime. This soap looks amazing! Thanks for sharing this technique with the template.
Hi Lisa, I love that you did this tutorial on the Polka dotted soaps because I had been thinking prior to your video how unfair it was for those soapers who don't have 3D printers and maybe no 3D printers for competition soaps would be a good idea. Your soaps turned out amazing and these 2 colours are 2 of my absolute favourite duo colours. Thankyou for sharing your video
Hi Tanya, thanks a lot. I do think 3D printing is growing and for some challenges it can be an advantage, but there are always lots of ways around it and I've never felt that you actually need to have one to make a stunning soap. But I am obviously saying that from the point of view of someone who has one :-)
I really like the soap dough method! That one seems much less complicated than all the straws and multi-day pours. Thank you for sharing! I also adore those colors!
You’re genius , very creative problem solver person. Such a complicated design make it look so easy that even myself an amateur soaper challenge me to give it a try.
Your polkadot soap has given me some idea for when I get back to making soap. I had to stop my soap business for medical reasons. Monday May 3rd I have surgery to fix some pinched nerves in my wrist and elbow. This is a cute idea. 😍😍😍
The punching out of the holes reminded me of one of those coloured pencils with the different coloured nibs where if you wanted a new colour you had to kinda move them all around in a loop
The Polka Dot Soap Challenge is the most interesting of this years challenges for me and this is simply the cleverest method to make the polka dot soaps challenge I have seen. I had thought to use paper straws, but why use straws at all, when you can simply extrude your own! That is rather a genius step in my opinion! And I love the melt and pour template idea too, which resolves the problem of using some kind of hard template base. Suddenly clear melt and pour has become more useful for me! Using the fondant smoothing plate took me way back to my pastry cooking apprentice days! video Cheers Mike
HI Mike, so pleased you found all my little swaps helpful. I think some people tried paper straws, some work and for others the straws just got stuck on the soap and would not come out. I agree with the melt and pour. I've had the same tub of it for about 2 years, I never make soap with it, just use it for blocking up moulds and all sorts.
LOVE IT!!! I've been waiting to see how you did this one Lisa. You've made a complicated looking soap, with a very easy technique. Totally agree with you about the straws - this way is FAR better. And honestly, I'm one of those people who would just make extra soap rather than getting a maths headache. :D
Ok, when the pictures came out a few months ago for this type of soap, I figured you somehow had to make the polka dots with rods of soap in your loaf mold, and everyone said that was insane, and it was impossible to do it that way. I figured there had to be a way, but couldn’t figure out how to hold all those rods on place. Then everyone came out with the straw method … and I was annoyed that I was wrong about the rods. But I was right! You can use rods! The way you hold them in place is brilliant!!
There's very rarely ever 1 right method. I'm forever looking at ways things are done and thinking, hmmm is that the best way? So if you think it can be done another way, you should go for it :-)
I love the way you approach putting a design together and the way you explain the mathematics for soaping. Btw I did pop into the shop and purchased the disks I contacted you about xx
This is cool! I was really wondering how you would get those poca dots 🤔, but this was interesting. Beautiful soap and colors, thanks for sharing, you are very informative Lisa. 😊
This is fantastic! Thank you for this tutorial. I joined the challenge in April and tried multiple times with (paper, compostable 😜) straws but had the issue you mention of getting a solid polka dot in each hole. I gave up and didn’t submit an entry after the fourth try. But! I think it’s worth trying again with this technique. I really appreciate you sharing this tutorial!
Oh, that's a shame. I think some people were OK with the paper straws but some certainly had problem, I would imagine not all paper straws are equal. This method is a bit of a faff rolling the soap dough, but it works very well and no unfilled holes :-)
Thanks so much for this wonderful post. I am much too new to try this just now but so appreciate the many gems of knowledge and advice throughout this piece. Is there a "rule book" of FO's and EO's that one should avoid in order to produce a slow batter?
Absolutely gobsmacked! A lot of work, but the result is brilliant. I wouldn't have thought of the top and bottom template. I would have been struggling to think some way to do it. 😜 Cheers 👍 💕
What a great execution of your polka dot soap Lisa!! I want to try it as you next time without straws, but it`s a long way i think ;) Don`t know how it works with extruder and soap dough ... Thank you very much for your great video tutorial, i love it every time to watch it, TINA
Hey Tina, so lovey to see you again. I like the extruded soap method. It is a process to extrude all the dots but then you don't have to pull straws and try to fill the holes.
These are so cool, I can’t imagine how disappointed you’d be using the straw method imagine cutting it and there was heaps of places without soap 🤦🏼♀️
Thanks so much Kasie. I think quite a few people struggled, I have done the hole filling method myself and it was ok, but you do need to be very careful filling the holes
Gorgeous! Love your colour choices. Perfectly executed, love your technique. I wonder if you could make reusable templates from the same material as your clear soap mould? Thanks for sharing! Always excited to see your next soap adventure! x
Would silicone straws have worked? Maybe with a skewer to keep them from flexing too much? I wonder if they would be easier to slide out of the soap then plastic too.
I would worry with silicone straws that the batter would squash them and ruin your polka dot shapes as silicone is quite soft, they would slide out well,
@@IDreamInSoap that’s a good point I hadn’t thought of. And they’d probably still have to be glued down with something like MP so might as well use soap dough and not risk the design not coming out as intended.
Hi. I love your soap! You are a genious of soap. My mothertoungh is not english and sometimes i don't understand. Can you please tell me how you make the strow? I watched your video several times but i don't understand. Please help me. Many thanks
this is such a unique approach to making polka dot soap and i absolutely love it! you always explain everything perfectly and i always learn something when i watch your videos, thank you for that you are so very helpful, i'm forever grateful.
Yes, it's a clay extruder. The standard extruder discs that you can get do not include stars, I do however sell all sorts of shapes and designs in my shop, including stars. I Dream In Soap.co.uk
Like what is the difference between soap bases, soap paste, and soap dough. I know what soap dough is, I've been watching the soap pasta and base a d I'm totally confused?? Beautiful soap!😍😍😁
They should all be the same, the soap base is just your normal recipe, I think some people just call that soap paste, but I could be wrong. Soap dough, is just your soap once it's gone through saponification, but wrapped up so it's not able to cure and go hard
Lisa, do you have any tips for avoiding those dreaded bumpies that sometimes appear after using a wire cutter? Or are they just to be expected and need to be planed off?
@@IDreamInSoap That's time intensive. If I had a bar if soap like that, I would not be able to use it.. it would just be out for decoration. Too pretty to use. How often do you make them?
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Just when I thought I couldn’t love her anymore, she shuts down plastic waste like a boss! Thank you for being a wonderful example and a wonderful human, Lisa 😊
That's so kind of you to say Kate, thank you so much 😊
RIGHT?!! She’s incredible!!! She makes it look so easy too!!
When ALL the soapers you follow drop videos on the same day 📺 you take an extended lunch break 🍿 😂
Ooh that sounds like a perfect plan :-)
My favourite 3 tips in your video today
6:16 Wobbly wobbly embeds
10:40 Maths headaches off setting embed oils
13:30 Multi pot swirl in squeeze bottle hassle averted
He, he, thanks Johanna
What a clever way of doing this! For me, using embeds would be so much easier. Side note from this 80’s kid: seeing all the perfectly round, chalky white embeds instantly reminded me of candy cigarettes😂
I know exactly what you mean and thought that as I was rolling them all out, the sweets had a little red bit painted on the end too. Gosh could you imagine them nowadays
I’m new to this channel and thought this too. My nephew still asks for these when we’re in the shop! The nostalgia ☺️
I did the straws first and then tried your method with soap dough.. so glad I had your large extruder gun I just bought. I put on one of the fimo discs and went to town making huge lines of soap dough..
Beautiful soap!
That's excellent news :-)
This is a GREAT alternative to plastic straws. And more effective in my opinion.
💜💙
Thanks so much Katarzyna
I just amazes me how you make such intricate and time consuming designs seem so easy and accessible. It's an incredible skill!
I have some stainless steel tubes that my grandmother used when she was a cake decorator. I used them already to make polka dot soap after watching another you tuber. They are way more versatile than the straws. Perfect sharp holes everytime. This soap looks amazing! Thanks for sharing this technique with the template.
They sound perfect :-)
Your soaps ALWAYS turn out perfect.!! These were so cute. Amazing polka dots. Thank you for sharing
Thanks so much Lori 😊
Hi Lisa, I love that you did this tutorial on the Polka dotted soaps because I had been thinking prior to your video how unfair it was for those soapers who don't have 3D printers and maybe no 3D printers for competition soaps would be a good idea.
Your soaps turned out amazing and these 2 colours are 2 of my absolute favourite duo colours. Thankyou for sharing your video
Hi Tanya, thanks a lot. I do think 3D printing is growing and for some challenges it can be an advantage, but there are always lots of ways around it and I've never felt that you actually need to have one to make a stunning soap. But I am obviously saying that from the point of view of someone who has one :-)
You are such a genius with this stuff. I wouldn't know where to start. I really like all the colors
Thank you so much Kristy :-)
I really like the soap dough method! That one seems much less complicated than all the straws and multi-day pours. Thank you for sharing! I also adore those colors!
Glad you like it, thanks so much. Yes I do think it's easier, it's a bit of a faff with the soap dough, but other than that, not too bad
Another great project. I love how you substituted the soap dough for the straws. You saved yourself some time in the process and the planet as well!
Thanks so much! 😊
Polka dots are my fave Lisa. Those turned out perfect! Love the little stars at the end too. Thanks again for sharing your talent
Thanks so much Michelle
Would be great to see a fast of the starts, colours are amazing
You’re genius , very creative problem solver person. Such a complicated design make it look so easy that even myself an amateur soaper challenge me to give it a try.
Thanks so much Lady E, ooh I hope you do give it a try
I love how she didn’t use straws and used and actual photo of the soap for the thumbnail instead of some super edited picture
Thanks so much Tango Bean
Your polkadot soap has given me some idea for when I get back to making soap. I had to stop my soap business for medical reasons. Monday May 3rd I have surgery to fix some pinched nerves in my wrist and elbow. This is a cute idea. 😍😍😍
Ooh pinched nerves, that sound horrible, I hope everything goes well
@@IDreamInSoap I have good doctors, I trust them.
Sending you wishes for a speedy recovery 💕
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Nagyon köszönöm és köszönöm, hogy megjegyzést hagytál nekem
So pretty! I'm a sucker for blue and purple together. And those polka dots are perfect!
AW, thanks so much Andi
Wow!!! That was super satisfying to watch when you sliced it 🤩
Thank you so much Vivienne :-)
Love love love your channel and your soaps! So elegant! 🥰🥰
Thank you so much Myra O, that's very kind of you.
very creative, beautifully done
Thank you so much 😊
The punching out of the holes reminded me of one of those coloured pencils with the different coloured nibs where if you wanted a new colour you had to kinda move them all around in a loop
I know the ones you mean, I think I had one of those
Very nicely explained Lisa. I so agree with you wrt wanting to avoid single use plastics. Soap Dough - Yeah! 🤗
Thanks Michael, the soap dough worked really well and Yeah! no plastic :-)
@@IDreamInSoap And so many more shapes possible with soap dough! 🤗
Oh... amazing and so intelligence as usual💞
Thank you so much 😀
The Polka Dot Soap Challenge is the most interesting of this years challenges for me and this is simply the cleverest method to make the polka dot soaps challenge I have seen.
I had thought to use paper straws, but why use straws at all, when you can simply extrude your own!
That is rather a genius step in my opinion!
And I love the melt and pour template idea too, which resolves the problem of using some kind of hard template base.
Suddenly clear melt and pour has become more useful for me!
Using the fondant smoothing plate took me way back to my pastry cooking apprentice days!
video
Cheers Mike
HI Mike, so pleased you found all my little swaps helpful. I think some people tried paper straws, some work and for others the straws just got stuck on the soap and would not come out. I agree with the melt and pour. I've had the same tub of it for about 2 years, I never make soap with it, just use it for blocking up moulds and all sorts.
Another work of art!!!! Absolutely adoreable....you're such a smart cookie!!!!!
Thank you so much Nancy 😀
They're all so pretty
Thank you so much Crystal , that's very kind of you.
LOVE IT!!! I've been waiting to see how you did this one Lisa. You've made a complicated looking soap, with a very easy technique. Totally agree with you about the straws - this way is FAR better. And honestly, I'm one of those people who would just make extra soap rather than getting a maths headache. :D
Thanks Carmen, I like this way too and making extra soap is great. Soap making should be fun so if you can use the extra why do the dull maths :-)
Wow, these are so pretty! I love the colours.
Thanks so much 😊
Very clever technique and a very beautiful soap❣️🌹
Thank you so much!
Very interesting technique! I might give this a try. Looks like a lot of work, but fun!
Jill Gross
Hi again Jill, lovely to see you. Ooh yes it's a little bit fiddly but the results are great
Ingenious! Beautiful colors.
Hi Julie thank you so much for your very kind comment 😊
You could be the next Sir David Attenborough. I’d listen to you narrate a documentary.
That's so kind of you to say Jessica thank you so much 😊
Just ordered a few diff ones from you and I’m excited to see the process to make the bars. 🤗❤️
More beautiful soap ❤️
Thank you Ronnie 😊
Love it... wonderful design and also your explanation. Thank you.
Thanks so much Sabine
Ok, when the pictures came out a few months ago for this type of soap, I figured you somehow had to make the polka dots with rods of soap in your loaf mold, and everyone said that was insane, and it was impossible to do it that way. I figured there had to be a way, but couldn’t figure out how to hold all those rods on place. Then everyone came out with the straw method … and I was annoyed that I was wrong about the rods. But I was right! You can use rods! The way you hold them in place is brilliant!!
There's very rarely ever 1 right method. I'm forever looking at ways things are done and thinking, hmmm is that the best way? So if you think it can be done another way, you should go for it :-)
Wow~ It's a clean yet cute and beautiful soap~~
Thank you! 😊
Awesome job!!!
Thanks so much :-)
Oooooh dotty! Lovely soap again Lisa. 🔵⚪🔵⚪
Hey LJ, lovely to see you, thank you :-)
I'd love to see these with glitter
Wow! Lovely Lisa. You’re amazing
AW, thanks so much Nilza
WOW!!!! AMAZING 👏
Love this design
Thank you! 😊
Such a great idea. Congratulation
Thank you! 😊
so pretty Thanks for sharing
Thank you so much Pat that's very kind of you.
WOW !!! that is so cool !!!
Thanks so much :-)
I love polka dots very cute 🥰
Hi again Jennifer, thanks so much :-)
Amazing patience
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The stars are so cute.
Thank you so much Vania, that's very kind of you.
The bottles were a great idea.
They make it some much easier to squirt the soap in. Thanks Sarah :-)
I love the way you approach putting a design together and the way you explain the mathematics for soaping. Btw I did pop into the shop and purchased the disks I contacted you about xx
Thanks so much Charlotte and thank you for your order, I really appreciate it
Acurat as always! Very nice soaps!
Thanks so much Jona
These are so Cute! I love them.
Hi Annie thank you so much for your very kind comment 😊
This is cool! I was really wondering how you would get those poca dots 🤔, but this was interesting. Beautiful soap and colors, thanks for sharing, you are very informative Lisa. 😊
Thank you so much steelersgirl071961, that's very kind of you.
Great efforts 👏👏👏
That's so kind of you to say Mitali M Madan, thank you so much 😊
This is fantastic! Thank you for this tutorial. I joined the challenge in April and tried multiple times with (paper, compostable 😜) straws but had the issue you mention of getting a solid polka dot in each hole. I gave up and didn’t submit an entry after the fourth try. But! I think it’s worth trying again with this technique. I really appreciate you sharing this tutorial!
Oh, that's a shame. I think some people were OK with the paper straws but some certainly had problem, I would imagine not all paper straws are equal. This method is a bit of a faff rolling the soap dough, but it works very well and no unfilled holes :-)
Omg your intro animation is so cute!!!!
He, he, thank you Amber
Thanks so much for this wonderful post. I am much too new to try this just now but so appreciate the many gems of knowledge and advice throughout this piece. Is there a "rule book" of FO's and EO's that one should avoid in order to produce a slow batter?
This is brilliant
That's so kind of you to say Dawn Samantha, thank you so much 😊
So cool
Gorgeous Lisa 💐
Hi Tracey, lovely to see you again. Thanks for leaving me another comment :-)
Awesome!! Thank you for sharing
That's so kind of you to say Freddie , thank you so much 😊
Absolutely gobsmacked! A lot of work, but the result is brilliant. I wouldn't have thought of the top and bottom template. I would have been struggling to think some way to do it. 😜
Cheers 👍 💕
That's so kind of you to say Cheryl, thank you so much 😊
Fascinating
What a great execution of your polka dot soap Lisa!! I want to try it as you next time without straws, but it`s a long way i think ;) Don`t know how it works with extruder and soap dough ... Thank you very much for your great video tutorial, i love it every time to watch it, TINA
Hey Tina, so lovey to see you again. I like the extruded soap method. It is a process to extrude all the dots but then you don't have to pull straws and try to fill the holes.
@@IDreamInSoap I defently would try it and learn too. This technic opens so much, you are very right Lisa!!
Love this soap.
Thanks so much Jane
These are so cool, I can’t imagine how disappointed you’d be using the straw method imagine cutting it and there was heaps of places without soap 🤦🏼♀️
Thanks so much Kasie. I think quite a few people struggled, I have done the hole filling method myself and it was ok, but you do need to be very careful filling the holes
Lovely!
Hi tia maribu thank you so much for your very kind comment 😊
I love them all 💗💗
Hi Tracey thank you so much for another very kind comment 😊
Love it 😍
Thank you so much April , that's very kind of you.
That's so cool
Thank you so much MsLisaLisa, that's very kind of you.
Perfect again!!
Thank you so much Jo-Ann
Gorgeous! Love your colour choices. Perfectly executed, love your technique. I wonder if you could make reusable templates from the same material as your clear soap mould? Thanks for sharing! Always excited to see your next soap adventure! x
Hi Beck, yes you can make reusable templates maybe even just out of some plastic. I have used my top melt and pour template a few times as well
Would silicone straws have worked? Maybe with a skewer to keep them from flexing too much? I wonder if they would be easier to slide out of the soap then plastic too.
I would worry with silicone straws that the batter would squash them and ruin your polka dot shapes as silicone is quite soft, they would slide out well,
@@IDreamInSoap that’s a good point I hadn’t thought of. And they’d probably still have to be glued down with something like MP so might as well use soap dough and not risk the design not coming out as intended.
BRILL!!!
Hi Richard thank you so much for your very kind comment 😊
@@IDreamInSoap it really is quite an eye opener for possible new direction in design!
Hi. I love your soap! You are a genious of soap. My mothertoungh is not english and sometimes i don't understand. Can you please tell me how you make the strow? I watched your video several times but i don't understand. Please help me. Many thanks
That beautiful
Thank you Karen :-)
@@IDreamInSoap u welcome
Hi Lisa , I'm learning so much. Not that ill ever do anything with the information lol but this might sound stupid but what is CPOP💕
this is such a unique approach to making polka dot soap and i absolutely love it! you always explain everything perfectly and i always learn something when i watch your videos, thank you for that you are so very helpful, i'm forever grateful.
hwat is that extruder you used? Is there a template/mold for small stars?
Yes, it's a clay extruder. The standard extruder discs that you can get do not include stars, I do however sell all sorts of shapes and designs in my shop, including stars. I Dream In Soap.co.uk
Like what is the difference between soap bases, soap paste, and soap dough. I know what soap dough is, I've been watching the soap pasta and base a d I'm totally confused?? Beautiful soap!😍😍😁
They should all be the same, the soap base is just your normal recipe, I think some people just call that soap paste, but I could be wrong. Soap dough, is just your soap once it's gone through saponification, but wrapped up so it's not able to cure and go hard
Lisa, do you have any tips for avoiding those dreaded bumpies that sometimes appear after using a wire cutter? Or are they just to be expected and need to be planed off?
Hi Kate, those are due to having air in your soap, so you need to minimse air bubbles as much as possible
@@IDreamInSoap thank you!
What is c pop .x
What program did you make your polka dot template on?
Hey Jackie I use Adobe illustrator
If someone ever sold those, they would have to be at least $25 a bar just to justify all that work. Maybe even more.
I am selling them, but not at that price unfortunately. That would be lovely
@@IDreamInSoap That's time intensive. If I had a bar if soap like that, I would not be able to use it.. it would just be out for decoration. Too pretty to use. How often do you make them?
I reuse my straws so no...’single use’.
That's excellent news :-)