Rebatch soap.

Once a technique I thought should only be used for laundry soaps, rebatching has captured my interest once again. After 2 years of soap making trial and error, my skills are now able to produce soaps of presentable quality. I found scraps of various soaps, some which are literally 2 years old. After reading the post on this website:http://soapnuts.com/indexrebatch.html, I got some new inspiration. I took some of there advice about adding the liquid and leaving the damp soap sit overnight in a closed vessel. Where I used my own ingenuity was instead of hydrating with milk or water, I made a 25-30% glycerol solution in distilled water and heated the liquid in the microwave to 165-170 Fahrenheit. The hot liquid was drizzled on the soap shavings, and thoroughly mixed only to produce damp soap without puddles of liquid. I matted the mooshy mix into the pot and covered overnight. Then I put the soap in the crock on low. It can take 1 to 3 hours to melt and an additional 1 to 2 hours to dry out enough to mold. It should look simular to hot process soap when it is ready to mold. For this reason, I highly recomment the novice to get plenty of both cold process and hot process soap making experience before attempting rebatching. Besides, you will need alot of scraps to work from. Of coarse now that I have a working system I make soap fragrance and color free specifically for rebatching.