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.
Best way to cut cold process soap.
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 longer it sits the harder and milder it will become.
Most people choose to cut their soaps into a one inch thickness.
This will make your soap harden up a little faster and cure out earlier.
If it is still soft and sticky i will wait another day or two before slicing.
Now about your choices of tools to use for how to cut homemade soap.
Soap makers have all kinds of ideas about items to use when it comes to cutting homemade soap.
Some use guitar strings the wire ones.
The bottom piece to your soap cutter will need to measure 6 3 4 long by 3 1 2 wide.
When making soap to sell or give as a gift it needs to look polished and professional.
The two sides of your soap cutter should be cut to measure 6 1 2 long by 5 high.
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.
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It s a time tested technique.
Speed up the process.
Depending on how firm it is i will go ahead and slice it into one inch thick bars.
Make your soap one day and then make sure you can cut it the next.
First you have to decide how wide you want your bars of soap to be.
At this point the soap should cut smoothly without crumbling.
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.
Most soaps need 4 or more weeks to cure or to complete the saponification process during which fats water and lye turn into soap.
Place your soaps in an out of the way place to cure.
If you don t take this step the blade won t cut all the way through your soap.
Once i make a batch of soap i unmold it after 24 hours.
