10/14/2026
I am in awe of this person's talent. Soapmaker friends, check this out!
So, I made this clown soap, and he came out GLORIOUSLY TERRIFYING! Like the Adios soap, I really went all out on him. There were 17 scrapers and 5 embeds involved, and I have 5 hours of video showing the blending, pouring and scraping of just the clown loaf. Yes, five hours, and that doesn't include everything or even begin to explain how much was going on in this pour!
Many of the layers were multi-color pours, including the lips, face paint, mouth and teeth, eyebrows, cheeks and nose! If you look closely at the finished bar, you can see the different hand mixed colors I used on one side of his face versus the other to make it look like light is coming from one side of the bar. Even his furrowed brows (which he HAS thanks to my son) and the whites of his eyes are slightly different colors! I spent a full day after drawing my design, tweaking him to make sure he was definitely not your average funny clown and making sure I had the lighting differences before I designed the scrapers for him!
On the hair I used 2 ITP swirls and 2 colors of red, with darker red and lighter bits on the more shadowed side of his face, then lighter red with slightly darker bits on the lighter side. The goal was to carry that lighting effect through the hair, too, rather than have the face looking carefully shaded and the hair doing whatever it wanted with no texture. In hindsight, maybe I could have made the reds contrast a little more, but I didn't want to take focus off of his eyes.
After all that planning and pouring all those layers, I spent all morning not sure I had pulled it off and worrying he'd be a mess! You just don't know until you actually cut into the loaf, which was a horribly long wait in the morning, since I ended up soaping into the early morning itself!
I may or may not have screamed a little bit when I saw the result on the first cut. Spoiler- I screamed.
Without further ado.... Meet Peepers. He is scented in a mixture of scents that came out smelling a lot like campfire and black licorice- which totally tracks!