I had to stop saying, ‘This is my favorite soap’ after each loaf I made because it kept happening over and over again.

This soap features another in-the-pot swirl design. I dropped violet, pink, and yellow into the main cream-colored batter—no additional color was needed since my recipe alone would give it a nice neutral hue. I carefully dragged the spatula around just enough to create swirls without muddying the colors. Once prepared, I poured the batter into the mold, covered it, and wrapped it in towels to let it rest for a couple of days. It takes about two days for the fatty acids and lye to do their magic: saponify and create salt of the fatty acids (what we call ‘soap’) along with a byproduct called glycerin