Not hosting this month's challenge has allowed me to participate. We are making a soap after "Fire and Water" by Vicki Frost, which riffs off of the cell effect acrylic paints can have. However, she makes the cells separately and adds them. She did get a bit of the real cell effect but not to the degree acrylics give. In paintings, the layer of soap is very thin; I suspect if you could get the true effect with soap, it would take many many layers to get a bar of decent thickness.

At any rate, for my base, I did layers. I don't have as large a slab as she has so I can't tilt my pour the same way or get as much movement so I improvised a bit to get the colors to mix around more. I like the effect which can be soft and dreamy or just funky and space-like. I am not a fan of the added cells, to be honest, but the base pour is fun to do and leaves much to be explored.

The second one looks more like the second and darker picture but the lighter one seems to give a bit more detail. Looks like an egg yolk disaster. I forgot to take pictures of a couple ones I poured but you get the drift. The first one and the blue/green one were thinner so I got a softer effect and the others were a bit thicker so the colors are more distinctive.

Each layer is 8-10 ounces (oils) of soap poured into a 9 bar mold. This way, the effects go all the way through the layer and aren't just on the surface. More work, but more interest while using up a bar.

I just saw this picture of Saturn's moon, Titan. My blue/green soap looks kind of like it!