Dipped Technique Winners
February 2024 Soap Challenge
Dipping soaps is a highly rewarding and instantly gratifying way to create a beautiful design on the face of any soap. Our guest teacher Tatiana Serko of Steso Tutorial showed us her tips and tricks to get the best possible results with this technique. You can learn from her video and written tutorial, now available in our Tutorial Shop!
Making Soap, Candles and Cosmetics Magazine is the sponsor for this challenge with digital subscriptions to their fantastic publication, an industry favorite for 24 years now! Their articles are both informative and inspiring, ranging from recipes and tutorials to in-depth ingredient information to business advice specific to makers. Get the scoop on individual back issues as well as options for physical and digital subscriptions.
Grand prize for the competitive categories is a 3-year subscription. Second place winners will receive a 2-year subscription, and third place winners and their Sponsor’s Choice pick in the non-competitive bonus category is a 1-year subscription!
This challenge has been completely blind, so no names were attached to the entries until now, and no one was allowed to post anything on the internet about their soaps, so if you’d like to find more information about these soaps, check #soapchallengeFeb2024! The links go to Instagram or Facebook profiles for those that have them. The photos are not linked to specific posts about the soaps.
Winners Category
Grand Prize
Royal Ripples
Second Place
Rose Quartz
Third Place
Surf Warning
Recognition Awards
Best Technique
Northern Lights
Best Presentation
Criteria Well displayed soap with interesting presentation and excellent photography (focus, lighting, etc)
Name Angelique Heiligers
Location Switzerland
Link Instagram
Spring is Coming
Best Use of Color
Criteria Beautiful, unmuddied color palette; base soap matches dipped soap
Name Lisa Cunningham
Location England
Link Instagram
Spring
Advanced Category
Grand Prize
Matching Pantone’s Color of the Year (Peach Fuzz)
Second Place
Don’t Be Square
Third Place
Walking on the Water at Sunset
Recognition Awards
Best Technique
Tulip Fields
Best Presentation
Criteria Well displayed soap with interesting presentation and excellent photography (focus, lighting, etc)
Name Shirley Colaso
Location Oman
Link Instagram
Aurora
Best Use of Color
Criteria Well-mixed, beautiful color palette with contrasting, unmuddied colors
Name Cindy Pierce
Location Utah
Link Instagram
Island Breeze
Regular Category
Grand Prize
Tropical Bloom
Second Place
“Tenue de soirée” (Evening outfit)
Third Place
Beyond the Nebula
Recognition Awards
Best Technique
Sunrise and Lilac
Best Presentation
Criteria Well displayed soap with interesting presentation and excellent photography (focus, lighting, etc)
Name Sharie Knudson
Location Texas
Link
Summer Breeze
Best Use of Color
Criteria Well-mixed, beautiful color palette with contrasting, unmuddied colors
Name Misty Hibbs
Location California
Link Instagram
Aurora
Bonus Category
Sponsor’s Choice
Location Florida
Link Instagram
Prize 1-yr digital subscription
Feedback “I like how the manipulation of the poured colors created this finished design. I think it is an excellent choice of complimentary colors and placement of those colors.” -Kathy Tarbox, founding publisher
Gold Waves
Great job to all our winners, as well as everyone else who participated in the challenge this month! If you would like to see the rest of the entries, check out these links. The names are now attached. Just click on the title of the entry to see them.
Registration for the March & April challenges opens Monday, February 26! We’ll be tackling a 2-for-1 challenge next month with Framed Landscapes and creating beautiful drop swirls (with a few twists!) in April. Check out the Upcoming Challenges page for more information and sign up to be notified as soon as registration opens.
Here is the soap I made for the March tutorial with fabulous, one-of-a-kind fragrances from our sponsor Stock Fragrance:
