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Best way to cut cold process soap.
Once i make a batch of soap i unmold it after 24 hours.
Place your soaps in an out of the way place to cure.
Soap makers have all kinds of ideas about items to use when it comes to cutting homemade soap.
Cold process soap is made without any external heat applied to it while hot process soap is most often cooked in a crockpot to speed up the soapmaking process.
If it is still soft and sticky i will wait another day or two before slicing.
Whether the soap has a bit of soda ash or uneven edges there are several tricks to making each and every bar picture perfect.
It s a time tested technique.
Depending on how firm it is i will go ahead and slice it into one inch thick bars.
Some use guitar strings the wire ones.
Inscriptions on the cylinders described a process of fats boiled with ashes the world s first soap making method but the babylonians weren t the only ones who benefited.
The front stop which keeps your soap from sliding out to ensure bars are all cut the same size should measure 5 long by 2 high.
Speed up the process.
While soap will form bubbles within the first 24 hours that doesn t mean it s done.
First you have to decide how wide you want your bars of soap to be.
The longer it sits the harder and milder it will become.
When making soap to sell or give as a gift it needs to look polished and professional.
Now about your choices of tools to use for how to cut homemade soap.
The two sides of your soap cutter should be cut to measure 6 1 2 long by 5 high.
If you don t take this step the blade won t cut all the way through your soap.
Most people choose to cut their soaps into a one inch thickness.
At this point the soap should cut smoothly without crumbling.
Most soaps need 4 or more weeks to cure or to complete the saponification process during which fats water and lye turn into soap.
The art of soap making can be traced as far back as ancient babylon when archaeologists during an excavation first discovered a soap material inside clay cylinders dating as early as 2800 b c.
This will make your soap harden up a little faster and cure out earlier.
