Oldie-Moldie

[Melrose]

I am ready to jump in and make my first batch of CP soap. I have a few recipes I am deciding on, but I would like some ideas as what to use as molds. I cannot express how much I would love to reuse old and/or unusual things that I might have in the house. Suggestions?

 

[AshleyR]

Milk cartons and Pringles cans make great molds for small batches (1lb for the Pringles can, 2 lb for the milk carton). You need to line the Pringles can with freezer paper, but you don't need to line the milk carton - just peel the cardboard away when the soap is ready.

You can also use silicone baking pans. I have some silicone muffin pans that make nice sized round soaps. Soap comes out VERY easily from these molds and you don't need to line them (maybe put them in the freezer for a few mins before you unmold, but that's it).

You can use anything, really. If you have any boxes laying around, line them with freezer paper and go for it!

 

[jcandleattic]

You can use anything, really. If you have any boxes laying around, line them with freezer paper and go for it!

Unless it's aluminum. Then you really shouldn't even if it is lined. Lye and aluminum react and it is NOT pleasant. LOL

 

[Lindy]

Mel I use plastic loaf pans, plastic drawers from those white plastic stands with a handle (?), plastic jello molds, a glass bundt pan and a whole bunch of other stuff. I can tell you that raw CP and aluminum turn into a volcano... 8) ....don't ask.....

 

[Deda]

Ikea sells a series of small drawers called FIRA - they make wonderful cheap molds, they do have to be lined, but they work well.
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80073304

Milk cartons and Pringles cans make great molds for small batches (1lb for the Pringles can, 2 lb for the milk carton).

Fond memories of Pringles cans! I had everyone saving them for me! I would come home with trash bags full! Lining them probably would have been a good idea. I never did, just washed them out good and let them dry. Fun to peel away the paper, like a can of biscuits.

 

[AshleyR]

Ikea sells a series of small drawers called FIRA - they make wonderful cheap molds, they do have to be lined, but they work well.
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80073304

Milk cartons and Pringles cans make great molds for small batches (1lb for the Pringles can, 2 lb for the milk carton).

Fond memories of Pringles cans! I had everyone saving them for me! I would come home with trash bags full! Lining them probably would have been a good idea. I never did, just washed them out good and let them dry. Fun to peel away the paper, like a can of biscuits.

I do that with milk cartons! I've gathered a whole bunch of 2 litre milk cartons from family to use when I do tester batches!

 

[angbaby4974]

I'll post pics tomorrow, but I have found that the small snack sized gladware containers work wonderfully. I was cheap & bought the store brand, & really like the fact that I can pop them in the freezer & they just pop right out. no liners, no vegetable spray. They make a pretty nice sized bar & are great for m&p as well as HP (haven't tried them with CP yet). I also had a wooden tray that I got a wal*mart, lined it with parchment & filled it up. It made a decent mold, mostly I cut square~ish bars from that one. I had bought some sea salt that came in round containers & that made a lovely round bar that fit nicely in the palm of your hand, I just did a pringles can yesterday, & of course the homemade mold, my dearest hubby made out of left over 2x4's.

 

[Sonam]

Milk cartons are good, for a 1# batch i just line it with a non-zippy gallon baggie.

Otherwise I use whatever recatangular tupperware i can get my hands on.

When I furst started rebatching soap i would make tiny bars in ice cube trays :shock:

 

[Barb]

anything plastic can be recycled into soap molds;
orange juice cans, individual fruit cups, applesauce cups, plastic baby food containers, toringo chip cans, pringle cans, yogurt cups,
crystal lite containers ( even the little tubs work for sample size soaps)
the inside container that the turtle candies sit in ( you even get a "T" embedded on these),

plastic velveta cheese saver ( box works also). you can cut off the bottom of a single size soda bottle and use that. shoe boxes, you can cut down the end of a priority mail box.

pretty much any rubbermaid container. gladware containers