Soap making tonight
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I realized we were just about out of our homemade soap a few days ago. I usually get about 2 years from each batch that I make. Here are some photos taken just before mixing the ingredients, after blending the batch and the mold forms that I have. I made more fancy molded soap the last time around but it takes more time to dip and finish them. This time I used one of our soap loaf pans for the bulk and had just enough time to form 3 oval bars. Those that have never made soap, once it starts to set up and cure a bit you have to get things done quickly or you will run out of time to work it. You have to let your fresh poured soap cure about 24 hours. After that time frame you can pop it out of the molds and cut the brick into cakes of your size preference. The fancy molded soap just pops right out of the silicone mold forms. Once the soap is cut or formed to your desired size they must sit out for 2-3 weeks to complete the curing process before using.
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Re: Soap making tonight
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06/08/22 07:48 PM
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Very cool Bob! I've been thinking about trying that.
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Re: Soap making tonight
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06/08/22 09:07 PM
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I remember my mother made homemade soap, it wasn't for personal use, I think it had a lot of lye in it and was used to wash clothes. As I recall it was pretty wicked stuff. I think a cake was kept handy for washing very dirty greasy hands.
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Re: Soap making tonight
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Thats cool….Nevah made soap before. Might have to get the recipe from yah
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Re: Soap making tonight
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Re: Soap making tonight
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I have helped the wife make soap in the past , the immersion blender
there are a number of online soap calculators you need to not over do the Lye a good scale is a must
she had us put wax paper over the forms and then cover in towles to slow the cool that helped avode pll away or cracking
the other thing some people who get into shaped soaps or like a really dense soap is milling the basically cut it into chunks and run it in a meat grinder then re-melt and pour into molds some repeat that process which makes a more dense bar , but it is a little like lead if you don't like the mold you got you can just recycle it.
there is a or was some soap charity that collected the soaps form hotels and re-milled it into bars to send to 3rd world countries.
Ivory is an example of a very not dense soap it floats because it has air stirred into it not bad if you are bathing in a lake but the bar is gone much faster than the home made soap
a little sugar is sometimes added to soap as it creates more lather
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Re: Soap making tonight
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My soap cured hard enough over night to cut this morning. I just had to pop the small soap bars from the mold and slice the brick loaf. Averaged just under 4 # of finished soap. The trough I use cuts the bars to 5-6 oz. bars. Good man sized soap for the shower. The smaller molded soap bars are 3 oz. each. The larger bars last a long time. You fellas that prefer bar soap with a rope can drill the soap. Then you can just wrap the rope loop around your wrist so you won't have to bend over to pick it up. This is some rendered bobcat fat I just strained and is cooling for a few hours. This cat fat had already broken down through sun rendering for the last 2 years. It makes some very creamy soap.
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