Process for making variegated soap bars or cakes

Claim 1

A process for making variegated soap bars, said process comprising: a. providing at least two colored soap masses at a temperature and consistency suitable for plodding, there being soap masses of at least two different colors; b. plodding and extruding the soap masses to form, i. at least one stream of small diameter noodles of one color, the small diameter noodles having diameters of about 1/8 inch or less, and ii. at least one stream of larger diameter noodles of a second color, the larger diameter noodles having diameters at least about twice as great as those of the small diameter noodles; c. introducing the streams of the small and larger diameter noodles into a vacuum chamber at respective rates such that the weight rate of the small diameter noodles is from about 2 to about 6 times that of the larger diameter noodles; d. directing together the streams of small and larger diameter noodles so as to achieve commingling of the noodles before they exit from the vaccum chamber; e. introducing the commingled noodles into a final flodder; f. plodding the commingled noodles in the final plodder into a variegated soap log; and g. forming the log into variegated soap bars.