How To Do A Soap Carving

And this tutorial from the LDS organisation website tells you what to do after youve finished the carving process again emphasis mine.

How to do a soap carving. In carving soap keep the silhouette simple. Heres how to carve a shape that will turn out looking decently turtle-esque. A good way to approach this is to imagine you are excavating some delicate artifact.

Gently scrape off any brandingwording thats imprinted on the top of the bar of soap. If you are carving a deer from transparent green soap let your deer kneel with his long thin legs tucked under him. Get the larger masses first in.

Set your carving aside to dry for several days and then polish it with soft tissue paper using your fingertips and palm of your hand to bring out highlights. Avoid at the beginning such difficult subjects as for example a standing deer. Consider buying all the required things to get this job done at home.

Use a skewer or toothpick to draw the outline of a turtle on your soap. Cut the soap and ready it for the carving. Hold in different lights and at different angles.

Transform a simple bar of soap into an object or shape of your choice to impress your friends relatives and children. Put the paper on the soap you may want to have shapes for the width and length separately as this soap carving is three dimensional then pin it to the soap with toothpicks and then gently have your kids give the soap the shape that they are striving for. Soap Craft.

Dont carve too long in one place. You will have to go through the trial and error method to carve a shape successfully. Soap Carving Perla Swan DesignTools used.