Our February 2021 Soap Challenge Club brought us the Kiss Pour technique with guest teacher Joanne Watkins of Nature’s Potion Handmade Soaps.
The goal was to achieve a feathered look in the soap by first pouring the colored soap into two different pouring containers and then slowly pouring both of those pitchers of soap into a slab mold at the same time (one in each hand), creating a waterfall between them where the two streams “kiss.”
I made three attempts at this fun technique. The video is of my third and entry soap for the competitive portion of the challenge. Below are the first and second soaps I made.
I colored the first batch of soap with purple Brazilian clay, alkanet-infused olive oil, and spinach powder mixed with a dash of yellow Brazilian clay. The alkanet-colored soap was a beautiful navy color while pouring and later morphed into a lovely speckled deep shade of purple.
Also, I took my phone down to take a photo of the striped soap in the pitcher and did not realize I stuck my fat thumb on the camera so, everything I shot after that point in the video of the pour is blurry. :/
I tried to similarly color the second batch with a light and dark theme with one pitcher of white, yellow, and purple Brazilian clay-colored soap and the other with alkanet and spinach-colored soap. 
The third soap I colored with a lighter alkanet oil, spinach blend, and activated charcoal for a little more contrast. I scented it with a bright essential oil blend of bergamot, tangerine, lavender, with a splash of patchouli. While I think my second attempt captured the technique in the best way, I love the unique look of the charcoal wisps in my third soap. That made me decide to enter that one instead. I had a difficult time choosing between the two!
