Soap Making Lessons - How To Make Soap

Swanstone, DSP-2, Soap Dish,Tahiti Desert, Accessory A 6 1/2″ by 60″ panel includes two molded-in soap and bottle shelves

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These intricate soaps offer dog lovers a mini, cleansing version of their favorite breed. The five canines are gorgeously molded and each has its own hallmark scent from natural, botanical extracts. Le Dachshund has a crisp, cottage linen fragrance, La Maltese is fragranced with light powdery notes of lavender and violet, Le Pug has a clean woodsy-floral fragrance, Scottie Dog has a fresh linen scent, and Westie Dog is fragranced with a vanilla, melon, passion flower, and rose petal scent. 100% vegetable-based and triple-milled to be creamier and longer-lasting. Each pet arrives gift-boxed with letterpress images, graceful calligraphy and delicate adornments such as silk ribbons, iridescent tissues and velvet trims. Sold individually. Made in the USA.Unfortunately, we have a very limited supply of scottie soaps. Once they sell out, we do not expect to have them back in stock until December. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.

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At www.shinly.com.tw (English version is http://www.shinly.com.tw/enu/index.htm ), I find some special soap molds, soapmaking kit, candlemaking kit, candle molds, ceramic molds, bar molds, clay molds, tray molds, cake molds, chocolate molds, jelly molds, pudding molds, ice cube molds, pottery molds, garden molds, tile molds, plaster molds and handcrafted stuff.

But each of them looks like metal ones. Are they plastic molds?

Seems pretty clear that the "SHINLY Plastics Corporation" produces plastic products. As you can even get "plastic" cake moulds for baking in these days - which are obviously not thermoplastic, this is not surprising.

Embellished with simple borders and ivory glaze, our earthenware accessories provide a versatile, unifying look to the casual bath. Artisans pour the clay into molds, and then use ceramic dowels to hand draw the relief borderlines, revealing the natural clay beneath the glaze. The soap dispenser is fitted with a superior-quality pump that operates smoothly and has a polished-nickel finish. All earthenware pieces are dishwasher-safe; hand wash pump. Made in Portugal. Dimensions: Tissue-Box Cover, 5″ x 5″ x 6″ high Small Tray, 9″ x 4 3/4″ x 1 3/4″ high Large Tray, 13 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ x 2″ high Soap Dispenser, 3 1/4″ x 2 3/4″ x 8 1/4″ high Oval Soap Dish, 6″ x 4 1/2″ x 1 1/4″ high Toothbrush Tumbler, 3 1/4″ diam., 4″ high

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Gardner’s Soap is molded into a votive candle shape, great for scrubbing your hands after working in the garden. Great stocking stuffer.

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I want a simple loaf mold but with straight sides. I'm trying to make smallish rectangular loaf that I can cut slices out of. But everything I try either has slanted sides or the sides bow out (like flexible bread loaf pans, emply cardboard milk cartons). Anyone have any ideas?

You can always use a blade to trim the sides of your slanted soap bars to straight rectangles, and then melt and reuse the scrap soap to make soap balls. Just an idea.

Watch a 40 lb. batch of soap poured into one side of our Manual Soap Cutter Pro Mold

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AMACO Designer Push Molds are ideal for creating/decorating: scrapbooks, art dolls, altered art, jewelry, home decor, journals and more. Each mold makes a variety of faces PLUS themed words relating to the faces. They are made of a strong, yet flexible rubber. These molds offer excellent detail, are easier to use, and work with a variety of materials including polymer clays, plaster of paris, air-dry modeling clays, craft soap, and candle wax. Each package includes one mold that is approximately 3 1/2″x 4″ and filled with a variety of shapes and words. Faces/Words Moon- Includes 4 moons, 3 stars and words-Wish, Dreams and Imagine.

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In chemistry class, that's my job. I'm supposed to make an OVAL "boat" shape soap mold. I'm clueless.

On the internet, it's not giving instructions to assemble a mold myslef.

I just needs tips, what materials to use? And how to put it together? PLEASE can you help??

Chemistry's filled with equipment with funny names. Is what you're wanting to make a mould for casting soap? My experience is with (home) metal casting, but the basic principles should be the same.

First you need a investment material which can be formed to take the shape you want the finished product to be. You could borrow from simple home casting, and split a cuttlefish bone (got from pet food shop), by sawing it, and then smoothing the sawn edge so it fits together nicely, and then carve a space which will latter be filled by the soap. You also carve a runner so the space can be filled. You hold the two parts together while casting, and once the casting has solidified you can take the mould apart. As you're unlikely working with very high temperatures you might be able to re-use the mould.

More common however is to use a "fluid" investment material (latex, plaster of Paris, clay, or where high temps are experienced foundry sand!) This material is moulded around the former (of the shape you're wanting the finished product to be)), in such a way that it's possible to get the former out, with out destroying the mould. If the formers made of wax (or soap?) once the mould has set solid, you can make a hole (also called a gate) and simply melt the former out (this is called lost wax casting)

With lost wax casting you have to break the mould to get the product out, so it's more common to use a split mould. Here you make half the mould, let it set, and the use some-kind of release agent (soot, grease, cling film ? ) to prevent addition investment material that's added sticking to the part of the mould that already there. Once it's set you can easily split the mould apart, and retrieve the former ready for making another mould. You still need to make a gate so you can fill the mould, but the mould usually survives several pours.

You need to cut of the sprue (really easy) , which is formed by a small amount of material setting in the filling hole. With soap you can probably smooth over any bumps, by heating the bottom of a round flask, and rolling it around the areas to be cosmetically improved.

I suspect that much industrial soap making uses split moulds to make soap-bars because, many soap bars end up with a slight ridge around their "middle". This is because the joins in a split mould often wear a little, and fail to seal perfectly. A small amount of soap escapes into this crack, and it's that which causes the roughness.