Ultimate Soap Carving: Easy, Oddly Satisfying Techniques for Creating Beautiful Designs

Ultimate Soap Carving shows, step by step, how to carve soap to create a wide variety of designs, from super cute animals to complex flowers.

In Ultimate Soap Carving, Makiko Sone – founder of the Mizutama.Soap YouTube channel – shares her secrets for designing and hand carving a variety of beautiful soap designs by cutting, shredding, shaping, sculpting, and other oddly satisfying techniques that ASMR fans will love. Inside, you’ll find:
Essential Supplies: Discover which knives and soaps work best for carving.
Key Techniques: Learn how to prepare soap for carving, hold a knife correctly, and make grooves, incisions, triangles, waves, and other basic cuts through eleven designs in eight step-by-step lessons. You’ll also find easy recipes for making soap and other products using shavings and cuttings.
Thirty Step-by-Step Projects: Find instructions and templates for carving super-cute animals, exquisite flowers, fun fashions, sweet accessories, and more.

Packed with guidance and inspiration, Ultimate Soap Carving will teach you everything you need to carve your own stunning soap designs.

From the Publisher

Introduction

Soap carving is the skill of carving figures such as beautiful flowers, cute animals, or even pretty accessories like sporty high-tops and handbags in soap using a few basic tools. There are some simple guidelines for cutting the soap to create the petals and patterns, but they’re easy to follow, allowing you to get started quickly.

Soap carving differs from sculpture because the patterns in the soap aren’t carved freely. Instead, you’ll use the templates supplied in this book to create your designs. You’ll start by carving the soap along the outlines of the template to create the basic shape and then fill in the details to bring the figure to life. Using these templates means that anyone can successfully carve the projects in this book. You’ll be amazed at what you can create with only a knife and a bar of soap—and how much fun you’ll have doing it!

Carving Lessons

Triangular Patterns

Carving a shape, such as a petal, feather, scale, or leaf, between two of the same shapes is the most frequently used way to carve a pattern. Triangular patterns are the easiest shape to carve.

Circular Scalloped Patterns

This sweet butterfly design, which includes both single- and double-scallop patterns, is a great way to learn these carving configurations.

Delicate Waves

Delicate waves carved in soap look like edges of lace. This simple technique allows you to dress up your soap carvings with gorgeous, fancy details, as in these cute purse carvings.

Complex Floral Designs

Let’s try carving a flower with a center bud. If you can carve a center bud, you will be able to carve various flowers such as a dahlia, rose, zinnia, calendula, chrysanthemum, etc. The dahlia is carved using the center bud and the triangular petals.

Carving Projects

Miniature Cake Slice & Doughnuts

Don’t discard small pieces of colorful leftover soap—use them to make these colorful soap desserts! If you make six miniature cake slices, you’ll have a whole cake. And the doughnuts are so cute, you won’t believe how easy they are to make!

Skill Level: Easy

High-Top Sneakers

These miniature sneakers are very cute. It’s so fun to personalize them with your own colorants and stickers.

Skill Level: Intermediate

Unicorn

This magical unicorn soap is perfect for unicorn lovers. A plain white unicorn is beautiful and traditional, or you can make your own magical unicorn by adding rainbow colors!

Skill Level: Advanced

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Quarry Books (1 April 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1631597248
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1631597244
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.84 x 1.4 x 27.94 cm