Drying soap??

[agail06]

I have been making soap for a while in very small batches, but I am trying to make larger quantities now and I don't have very good drying ideas. Please give me suggestions on how to dry soap in big quantities.

 

[newbie]

There are many many threads and sites that talk about soap storage. Most people have a rack of some sort in a place with good circulation, that's dry and out of direct sunlight. Some people have posted pictures. Do a search on storage and you'll find lots of threads, I'm sure.

Also, if you think your soap might be going rancid after a month (your other thread), you should figure out what's going on before you make large batches. Most people recommend starting with 2 pound batches until you work out your kinks. I don't know what you mean by large and small yet, until we see your recipe.

Also, all the moderators recommend you visit

http://www.millersoap.com/

when starting as it has loads of information on soaping. Good Luck!

 

[agail06]

I was reading some stuff on the internet and one lady said that she let them dry in those plastic dresser drawers (like you get from Wal-Mart) lined with towels and they got pretty good air, but I am not too sure about that. Do you think that is okay? I am kinda limited on space and I have three young kids that it has to be a little out of the way. My batches were like 5 lbs, but some of them turned out great, but they were stored on a shelve, but this shelve is not big enough for a couple of different batches and I had to store them on some homemade racks I made that sit very close to the ground. I am wanting to give them away as gifts and such for people to try.

 

[newbie]

I suppose the dresser drawers might work if they were open to the air on top. I wouldn't use them if they were the 3 or 5 drawer stacks that you open and close. They need to have good air circulation until they've cured a while. And people have soap curing all over the place. Wait until tomorrow- lots of people are on the forum on weekends, it seems, and I'm sure people will post where they put theirs. It's a creative bunch on this forum!

 

[Bubbles Galore]

I scrounge around the thrift stores and find cake racks and vegetable trolleys on wheels and things like that to air soap on. They need good air circulation for a few weeks and then you can think about moving them somewhere else.

 

[judymoody]

I use corrugated cardboard boxes from Costco - the kind that are used for bottled water or soda pop. They measure about 2 feet by 1.5 feet and are anywhere from two to four inches high. I flip the cut soap periodically and after a week or two, I move them to baseball card boxes which are the perfect size for storing standard sized bars. BCW is the brand, I think. You can get them in various lengths.

 

[AmyW]

I've been using water bottle "boxes", probably similar to what judymoody uses. Long and wide and 1-2" high.

 

[AZ Soaper]

I use plastic bread trays that they bring the bread in at the grocery store. But on the grounds that I might incriminate myself I'm not going to tell you where I got them. :wink: