Soap Project Phase 1 and 2: Bucks and Molds
Shaking the dust off this blog to post about my latest little pet project, Melt and Pour soap making. There's no rhyme or reason why I got into it. Candles are on the radar too but this first. I decided to make my own silicone molds for my project as well as making my own tube molds out of PLA. My 3D printer is chugging away again! Phase 1: Designing the Bucks Used 3D Builder to make the bases and then used some files from Thingiverse and a few that I made on TinkerCAD. I came up with several Demon Slayer related designs. I first designed what I call my Wisteria Soaps. These were based off images of actual kamon (family crests). I kept them small so these could be my "sampler" soaps. Then came the "kanji" soaps based on Demon Slayer. I have a few versions of finishes for these including embossed, indented and hollowed. Then fox masks I retraced the lines as svg and used TinkerCad to make "cookie cutters" to cut indents into a fox shape. Then the...