Tienne
Well-Known Member
When you cut CP soap, you sometimes get those little raised bubble-looking pockmarks on the soaps, especially if the soap is coloured with TD or cut with a wirecutter. You may also get frayed crumby edges. They're both pretty unsightly to say the least, so here's a simple way to fix it, using just a piece of fluff-free cotton cloth.
After you've cut your soap, let it dry for at least a few hours until that wet new-cut feeling is gone. Do NOT try this on wet soap or you'll leave drag marks. The soap has to be dry.
All you have to do it roll up a piece of soft cloth into a loosely rolled sausage shape and then ever so carefully, wipe down the soap with it. That's all there is to it! You can also clean up your edges really nicely using the cloth. Just wrap the cloth (a few layers thick) around you finger and smooth down the edges carefully, like you otherwise would do with your finger. The cloth will press down any frays and at the same time lift any excess crumbs away nicely, leaving you with a nice clean-cut looking soap.
This method can also help lift off little pieces of wayward glitter, that you may have gotten onto the surface of your soaps. If it doesn't come off when you wipe down one way, try wiping down in the other direction and more often that not, the glitter will be lifted off without leaving any marks. (Don't press too hard or you'll just stick the glitter down even more!) If you look at the "before" pic below, you can see at the bottom middle part of the soap, I accidentally left a big fat glitter fingerprint on the soap! Ugh! No worries, though! As you can see on the "after" pics, the glitter is gone without having damaged the soap at all.
The only thing you need to remember is to use a soft cloth that doesn't fluff or leave little fibers all over the place. I use a scrap of an old worn t-shirt and it works brilliantly.
I know all this isn't really rocket science, but I still hope this cotton cloth method can help others to get rid of some of those disappointing little flaws on their soaps that we all know and love so well ( ) and be left with nothing but beautifully smooth soaps.
Here are a few before and after pics to show you how effective this method is;
After you've cut your soap, let it dry for at least a few hours until that wet new-cut feeling is gone. Do NOT try this on wet soap or you'll leave drag marks. The soap has to be dry.
All you have to do it roll up a piece of soft cloth into a loosely rolled sausage shape and then ever so carefully, wipe down the soap with it. That's all there is to it! You can also clean up your edges really nicely using the cloth. Just wrap the cloth (a few layers thick) around you finger and smooth down the edges carefully, like you otherwise would do with your finger. The cloth will press down any frays and at the same time lift any excess crumbs away nicely, leaving you with a nice clean-cut looking soap.
This method can also help lift off little pieces of wayward glitter, that you may have gotten onto the surface of your soaps. If it doesn't come off when you wipe down one way, try wiping down in the other direction and more often that not, the glitter will be lifted off without leaving any marks. (Don't press too hard or you'll just stick the glitter down even more!) If you look at the "before" pic below, you can see at the bottom middle part of the soap, I accidentally left a big fat glitter fingerprint on the soap! Ugh! No worries, though! As you can see on the "after" pics, the glitter is gone without having damaged the soap at all.
The only thing you need to remember is to use a soft cloth that doesn't fluff or leave little fibers all over the place. I use a scrap of an old worn t-shirt and it works brilliantly.
I know all this isn't really rocket science, but I still hope this cotton cloth method can help others to get rid of some of those disappointing little flaws on their soaps that we all know and love so well (
) and be left with nothing but beautifully smooth soaps. Here are a few before and after pics to show you how effective this method is;
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