Soap Piggy

I made a video back weeks ago now where I tried to cook some bacon soap. I don’t think I told the story previous so I’ll do it now. During Christmas 2019, my mother gifted me a bar of bacon flavoured soap. Maybe scented is the more appropriate term but you get the general idea. The soap was supposed to smell like bacon and I’m sure it was just a gag gift. Something she saw and thought would be funny to buy for me. I took it home and a couple of weeks later, I realized I’d plumb run out of bar soap. I generally keep a bar of soap to use to wash my face and I’d now run my stock dry. All I had was the bar of bacon soap and a cute decorative bar that KJMH had given me the year prior. I decided to use the bacon soap. It smelled so pungently like chemical that I had to get rid of it. I relegated it to the garage. It had stunk up the entire house with a gross fake scent. But since it was a gift, I had trepidation about tossing it outright. I wanted to give it a more celebrated departure. My first instinct was to carve it into a strip of bacon and then cook it up. So I did.

I shared the link with friends and family and got no feedback from anyone on it. I was feeling that maybe it wasn’t an epic enough effort for the destruction of this soap. I happened across the decorative soap from KJMH again and that gave me an idea. Maybe I should carve this bacon flavoured soap into a decorative little piggy. But outside of that slice of bacon I carved in the above video, I’d never done any kind of carving. And that bacon strip was rudimentary at best. I have watched a lot of bait making videos though so I wasn’t completely clueless on how to make some detail. So I figured I’d give it a whirl. I used the infamous hobby knife set and tried my luck. Enjoy this video of my efforts.