This is an example of the true beauty of the soap making craft comes to head. Nothing need to be wasted! Any soap, or for that mattter, soap-like material you make has a use! Even if it is lye-heavy it can be the beginings of a non-petrochemical based general cleaner. A lye heavy soap can be grated or processed to a powder and mixed with other alkaline materials to make driveway cleaner, metal degreaser, or oven cleaning mixture! Another option is rebatching. You take a soap that is ugly, or that otherwise is mild and grate it and mix with a moisturizing liquid so it may be melted in a crock pot. More on this later. The picture you see above is a Rosemary/peppermint shea butter soap I made on February 15th. As you can see the milkway mold was destroyed while trying to release the captive soap. I have started to use this soap yesterday in the shower and it is WONDERFULL!! It just looks like crap. So, in essence, what I intend to do is make a special loaf of unscented/uncolored soap for rebatching and mix some with this and add necessary colors/scents to get a full loaf of rebatch. Grating this 1 pound 9 ounce calamity will be a chore IN ADDITION to the 1 pound 7 ounces of special rebatch soap I will need to make a 3 pound loaf
of rebatched rosemary, peppermint soap. I need a food processor soon!
The point of this post is show how anything coming from the soapers pot is usefull!
I've had problems getting the soap out of those Milky Way molds. Especially my soaps with shea butter. Have you done anything differently in hopes of preventing the sticking? Maybe applying mineral oil to the mold first? Have you put it in the freezer before attempting to release the mold? I'm interested in knowing if you've tried these things and still had the problem with sticking.
ReplyDeleteI'm new to your blog, but see I could learn a lot here. Thank you!