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Marilyn Norgart
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how did the kids like your paw soaps?
Dawni
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These embeds <3
These are beautiful! I have a rather unrelated question that I really need help with ..but dont know where to post it...how do you keep/store your soaps when the weather is hot and humid? I live in southern AZ and it gets Hot in the summer-during monsoon season it gets hot and humid..and I have an evaporative (swamp) cooler, not ac. So I get really hot and humid all summer long. In the past I have had real problems keeping soaps in nice condition as they do not like hot and humid.
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance!
Roselle, here is a BrambleBerry cube mold: https://www.brambleberry.com/shop-by-product/molds/silicone/9-cube-soap-silicone-mold/IB000004.html
And here is one by Bulk Apothecary: https://www.bulkapothecary.com/9-cube-silicone-soap-mold/
If you Google it you will find there are other suppliers and various sizes avaialable.
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Here is the post where she shows cutting the mat to fit her mold
https://seifenbar.blogspot.com/2018/01/lavender-seasalt.html
I love this soooo much! I need to find more impression mats. I've become obsessed....
https://seifenbar.blogspot.com/2018/01/lavender-seasalt.html
I love this soooo much! I need to find more impression mats. I've become obsessed....
I spent a bit of time searching for impression mats after looking at the impression mat links Dawni left in another thread. It's a toss up in Aust. Amazon will only send what they sell (not third party sellers) and there weren't too many there. China is closer but takes forever in the post and can be dodgy. There are local resellers but they buy pretty much from the same places. This is sitting behind felting at the mo. for me. Waiting for the fibre I have bought to arrive to try it.I live in Aust and summer here is extreme and humid as well. I have just bought a second hand dehumidifier and had it on when humidity is high. It sucks up heaps of water and my salty soaps which have been running with water are nice and dry.
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Thank you!
These are great. Now I want to try this, but I so hate cutting up such an expensive silicone mat just to fit into only one mold! I may never be able to bring myself to doing that, but I do love the look of these so very much. I wish the mats weren't so expensive or maybe I could find some at the Goodwill or something (not likely, but who knows?)
Dawni
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This post of mine was inspired by that soap but I had no individual molds so I used a loaf. Came fairly cheap here, where everything else is expensive lol. Are they expensive for you from Amazon? They have those suppliers from China that make em cheap. I noticed thinner silicone, but it works.
Now this is a mold I wish I can find here..
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I've seen this mold on Etsy or eBay I think. Can you order from either of them? Apparently Alibaba has it too.
This is a couple of years old and may have already been linked. Warning - it gets messy but the end is worth it.
Dawning you are a true artist, those succulent ones are to die for love your work
The succulents are by loveryoursuds in Vancouver, British Columbia, Alicia01. Dawni, who is in the Phillipines, and not the maker of the soap you referenced, posted them because this thread is for posting OTHER people's gorgeous soaps that we find as we peruse the internet in search of soapy inspiration. It's sort what some call soap porn, eye candy, that sort of thing. Granted, Dawni made a great find in that soap she posted, and I admire the maker of those soaps as well. My mom used to grow cacti in our yard. It was one of her botanical specialties and I particularly liked the little hens & chickens, as we fondly call that particular succulent.
What kind of cooling system do you have in general? Does a humidifier work with a swamp cooler for cooling? That doesnt seem to make sense to me, but If you say it does I will try it.
I live in Aust and summer here is extreme and humid as well. I have just bought a second hand dehumidifier and had it on when humidity is high. It sucks up heaps of water and my salty soaps which have been running with water are nice and dry.
I am not Jeboz, but I don't see how a dehumidifier would work well with a swamp cooler. Swamp coolers are water based. Dehumidifiers pull air out of the air. So they would be competing with each other and you would be using even more water to refill the swamp cooler.
Our central AC systems pulls water out of the air and spits it down a drain. We also have a separate dehumidifier that does the same thing that we use when the humidity rises due to heavy rains (we use it a lot when the basement gets wet during the rainy seasons or now, when the snow melt saturates our ground.) It helps pull the moisture out of the air and the basement dries out faster. A large fan also helps dry out the air faster, too.
Don't you live in a hot dry climate? As I recall, Tuscon isn't very humid, but the climate is changing, so that could be changing as well, and I am not as aware since I missed Spring Training the last two years. If it's more about the added humidity from the swamp cooler, that you're worried about, why not move your soaps to another room where a swamp cooler is not in use, and just use a fan in that room? I run a fan in the room I cure my soaps, as our AC doesn't reach our top floor very well. I guess our forced air fans aren't as powerful as they would need to be to get the cooler air up there. But a fan moves the air around and it seems to help with drying up some of the humidity as well.
Our central AC systems pulls water out of the air and spits it down a drain. We also have a separate dehumidifier that does the same thing that we use when the humidity rises due to heavy rains (we use it a lot when the basement gets wet during the rainy seasons or now, when the snow melt saturates our ground.) It helps pull the moisture out of the air and the basement dries out faster. A large fan also helps dry out the air faster, too.
Don't you live in a hot dry climate? As I recall, Tuscon isn't very humid, but the climate is changing, so that could be changing as well, and I am not as aware since I missed Spring Training the last two years. If it's more about the added humidity from the swamp cooler, that you're worried about, why not move your soaps to another room where a swamp cooler is not in use, and just use a fan in that room? I run a fan in the room I cure my soaps, as our AC doesn't reach our top floor very well. I guess our forced air fans aren't as powerful as they would need to be to get the cooler air up there. But a fan moves the air around and it seems to help with drying up some of the humidity as well.
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@earlene I saw some on sale at Hobby Lobby online for under $5 last night. Not sure how much shipping is or if the sale is good in the store. I'd link it now, but I'm at work and can't get through the firewall. I know the long one I used for my lilac impression mat was on the sale, and they had a few others that were the same size but different designs.
Thanks for your input! Tucson is not normally humid at all--known for dry but our summers from end of June thru ...Sept sometimes get Humid due to monsoon season...and of course the central cooling swamp cooler doesnt help..I have moved soaps to their own room, am closing off the register for central cooling and installing a small ac in the window....thats the plan so far. The lengths I go to for soap. Honestly.....
Dawni
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I should just probably state whose soap I'm posting instead of just including it in the pic lol
Soap by the lady who owns www.seifenbar.blogspot.com. Pic from her Instagram account.
Soap by the lady who owns www.seifenbar.blogspot.com. Pic from her Instagram account.
