Opinion on bar sizing - need photos

[lucycat]

I don't do 30 logs; I sell about 3,000 bars of soap per year; in the summer several days with 8-10 logs; still not a lot of time at my level. Soap is my retirement hobby business. I want it to stay fun and hobby is more important than business.

 

[lshone]

It's not so much the physical size of the label as it is the weight of the bars. My labels are pre-printed with So the choice is either to sell my bars at 3.5oz or cut them at 1.25".

Increase the water discount, less water = less evaporation. This might be enough to keep you over 4 oz.

 

[TheGecko]

Increase the water discount, less water = less evaporation. This might be enough to keep you over 4 oz.

You do know that there is no such thing as a 'water discount', just a higher lye concentration. But that's a good idea. During the Fall/Winter I increase mine from 33% to 35% because I'm in the PNW and we get a lot of rain and it slows down my cure.

 

[AAShillito]

Which is not a big deal if you're only cutting up a log once a day, but what happens when you're cutting up 10, 20, 30 or more logs?

True! Based on my Halloween soap sales I will need to make 30-40 pounds next August. My daughter will murder me with the scraper if she has to do it all by hand

 

[CatahoulaBubble]

I bought a nurture cutter and I love it. On top of that using the actual multi-bar cutter gave me more bars because I was able to be consistent whereas when I was using my single cutter my bars were just not the same no matter how hard I tried. My loaf when I cut it myself was only giving me 8 bars but when I used the multi-bar cutter I was getting 10 bars. And that can mean a lot when you're cutting a lot of loaves of soap. I list my bars as at least 4.5 oz and at 6 week cure I haven't had any moisture loss that makes it under that and since I generally add high tops or heap up soap on top for texture I find the height more than makes up for just having a 1" bar. I do have a flat top no piping bar that I cut with it that is around 11 months old and it weighs 4.45 oz. It will also will depend on the height of your mold. I also water discount so that might make up for any loss that might occur.