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1:45 pm
September 30, 2010
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Hi All,
I didn't get to make my soap mold at the retreat but have all the stuff coming (soon!) to get started. I was wondering what the plans were to make a 2lb mold with cutter. My hubby loved my soap (6% fat with just cedarwood EO) so I'm going to make a batch per weekend until I have around 52 bars.
From reading above it sounds like I should store it, unwrapped in a shoe box so it can breathe. Should I ever wrap it?
Can't wait!!
Carrie
1:56 pm
February 10, 2009
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I have some that I bought several (6 1/2) years ago and just "found" in a box this past week that was wrapped in some small squares of muslin cut with pinking shears and tied/wrapped loosely with rough twine. That seems to have worked so well that it's how I'm going to do any I make from now on. All but one of the bars was perfectly nice, that one I just had to run under water to get the cloth off where it stuck, and then rinse the cloth!
2:46 pm
October 17, 2008
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Since you were at the Retreat (and 52 admitted he didn't know there were handouts to give out to everyone in Woodworking), I emailed you the handout!
No, you never need to wrap it. It will shrink as more water evaporates out of it, but that just makes a harder bar and less likely to "melt" in water as fast. Homemade soap needs to "breathe".
I tried to show everyone….but there was 1 of my bars in that basket of soap that was sticky. That's what happens when it can't breathe. I found it inside of a plastic shoebox, that another shoebox had fit down into it instead of sitting across the top. I'll rebatch all of the soap that was in that container.
12:30 am
January 31, 2011
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odear cindy,
could u send me the plans as well?
I have my husband squinting at the pictures and he just laughs at me…and says…
" the pringle chip can worked fine, babe !"
NONONO… I must make a soap mold. There wasn't enough time to do everything ! Thank GOD! there will be another workshop.
and not reading everyting properly..I put my bars in baggies with open tops…
but i will get them outta there tomorrow ! I love the muslin idea…
my new soap from this weekend is still drying, I think…peppermint delicious ! but I made it in a cute tiny sandal shoe box…just perfect size…
laur
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