Slowly and carefully add 4.4 oz of lye to 9.8 ounces of water and gently stir until the lye has fully dissolved and the liquid is clear. Set aside to cool. Add 2 teaspoons of sodium lactate and stir throughly.

Fully melt the entire bag of Swirl Recipe Quick Mix in the microwave using 30-60 second bursts until the oils in the bag is clear. Pour into a heat-safe container and let cool. Once the lye water and oils have cooled to about 110° F or below (and are ideally within 10 degrees of each other), add the lye water to the oils and whisk together to  combine. Use the stick blender to pulse into the soap has reached a thin trace. 

Pour your uncolored, unscented soap batter into each of the six containers. Each container should have around 1.5 ounces of soap. Don’t mix until right before you’re about to pour. Set aside your six containers.

Add all 1.75 oz of fragrance oil to your uncolored soap, whisking thoroughly. Pour all of your uncolored batter into the mold. 

Use a mini mixer to mix in your mica dilutions with the uncolored batter. Then, once your uncolored batter has thickened enough to support more soap on top, gently pour each soap color in long, skinny, vertical lines. If you're using paper cups, we recommend pinching the cup for a more narrow, controlled pour. The order of the lines should be: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple. 

Once you have all six lines poured, take your hanger tool and slowly push each line of color up and down. Do this up-and-down motion at least five times for each line of color. Pushing straight up and down is what gives us those wispy vertical lines of color. Be sure to move only your hanger tool up and down and not side to side, otherwise your colors will mix together and become muddy. 

Once you have gone over each color several times, take a chopstick or wood dowel and do a linear swirl across the top of your soap. If you prefer, you can also texturize with the back of a spoon, or leave the top as is. 

Spritz the top of your soap with isoproypl alcohol to prevent soda ash. Optionally, you can sprinkle a light dusting of Lilac UltraSparkle Mica on top. 

Cover the mold and place on a heating pad for 1-2 hours to promote gel phase. Gel phase helps the colors pop and it helps the loaf release from the mold faster and more easily. 

Spritz the top of the soap with 99% isopropyl alcohol to prevent soda ash. Cover the mold and place on a heating pad for 1-2 hours to promote gel phase. Gel phase helps the colors pop and it helps the bars release from the dividers faster and more easily. Allow the soap to cure for 4-6 weeks, and enjoy!