Show me your SAPONIFACTORY!

[AshleyR]

LOL, that's what I call my "soap room".

I am in the process of turning one of the rooms in our basement into my little work area and would love to see where the rest of you make your soap! Even if you make it in your kitchen - show me where you keep your supplies, etc!

It's late and my basement is dark, so I'll take a pic of mine tomorrow and post it.

Let's see yours!!

 

[Jody]

Perfect timing. We just revamped (and finished today) the entire laundry room so all my stuff (which was in the back bedroom) is now closer to the kitchen. I will post pics soon.

 

[Lindy]

In the midst of developing the basement suite kitchen area into my Soap Factory.....

 

[Lil Outlaws]

No pics, my camera's broken...

I work in the kitchen, I have one large bottom (double) cabinet (very deep and wide) for supplies, plus a stack of boxes against the wall (much to hubby's chagrin). I soap there, and then after cutting I move the bars to the master bedroom closet where we have one of those wire closet shelf systems. We hardly use it so it's my curing rack LOL

 

[surf girl]

I am not showing you pictures of my crack whore tenement apartment kitchen.



(It's going to FINALLY be reno'd this spring. Maybe then I'll show you pics. Actually, by then, mr surf girl may have kicked my chemistry lab out to the guest cottage kitchen).

 

[Jody]

Here's my Soap/Laundry/Pantry room.

 

[starduster]

Very soon.

Tomorrow maybe when I have had a chance to get the servants in to tidy first.
This is a great ask .I am so nosy about you lot and your Soap kitchens.
Surf Girl,Quote: I am not showing you pictures of my crack whore tenement apartment kitchen.Quote. Dam funny I say.

 

[surf girl]

Re: Very soon.

Surf Girl,Quote: I am not showing you pictures of my crack whore tenement apartment kitchen.Quote. Dam funny I say.

Heh heh heh. You haven't seen my kitchen. It is unbelievable that a grown-up person with a serious job has a kitchen like this. We have lived in this house for about 12 years, and because it is such a functional kitchen, we have postponed the renovating (Oh, who am I kidding? We've been busy drinking the reno funds away ). Sometimes, we have people over who have never been in our house, and I collapse into a puddle of mortification. Of course, our excellent company soon takes their attention off the plywood countertops and the bashed-in plaster and the lack of oven and the cupboards that are missing doors...

There will be no photos of my soapatorium.

 

[Gobbler's Run]

'm currently making in my kitchen but as I live by myself I have 2 spare bedrooms that have a joining door. One is being turned into the making area (sink, hotplate andheaps of bench space and curing racks on the walls and the other will be my wrap and pack room....Im very excited!!!!

 

[starduster]

Evere evolving

'm currently making in my kitchen but as I live by myself I have 2 spare bedrooms that have a joining door. One is being turned into the making area (sink, hotplate andheaps of bench space and curing racks on the walls and the other will be my wrap and pack room....Im very excited!!!!

and your bedroom will be the store room and youl'l be in the hallway :shock:

 

[sandra]

curing areas

I have a question about where to cure my soaps. I have two options. We live in a split ranch so we have two basements, both finished. One has the pellet stove in it, that's what we use to heat the house. So that room is about 80 degrees and about as dry as a desert. The problem with that is that is where the kids hang out. The other basement gets very little heat. It's about 60-65 degrees and slightly damp. Obviously both areas are more temperate during warmer months but I'm not sure where my little baby soaps should sleep. Any suggestions?

 

[jcandleattic]

We are in the very slow process of inventorying everything that has anything at all to do with soap/candlemaking in my basement, and cleaning and organizing it. Once that is done, we are going to put up more lighting, cabinets and counter space down there with a running sink. Once we do that, that will be my "work shop".
Right now it's jsut in my kitchen. Nothing special.

 

[andreabadgley]

Oh man, I'm so jealous of anyone who has all their soapmaking stuff in one place! We are a family of four living in a tiny two-story townhome, so my stuff is stuffed into any nook or cranny I can find. I make soap in my kitchen, but my supplies are stored under the bathroom sink, in the hall closet, and on shelving above my washer and drier. My curing soaps are in the hall closet downstairs, and my 'ready to sell' soaps are upstairs on shelving in my kids' closet. It takes me forever to set up and break down cause I'm running all over the house collecting everything to make soap. What a pain! I dream of having a soaping room and office all to myself. One of these days...

 

[starduster]

To have a dream

Oh sacred suds, I love you name Avatar and website.
It is only amatter of time.
You have the dream,
the will and the determination
If you had the perfect soaping situation , how and where would it be.
Spare us no detail.
Would you look out you sacred kitchen soaping shrine and see a running brook .What would it all look ,sound and smell like.
:idea: :idea: :idea:

 

[andreabadgley]

Awwww! Thank you Starduster! I love your quote, btw. My nickname in Kindergarten was Smiley

Wow, my dream Saponifactory... I'm seeing myself in a warm wooden room, looking out a (large) window over my vast wooden deck nestled into a green forest (any natural setting can be inserted here, including beach, mountain, meadow, ocean). A babbling brooke winding through the trees a few meters away from the steps of my porch would be lovely (or waves lapping on the shore, butterflies flitting in my garden, etc etc). French doors would lead out to the porch so that I could mix my lye outside and avoid creating noxious fumes in my home. Inside, I'd have all of my soaping equipment out on a counter where I NEVER HAD TO PUT IT AWAY to make room for making dinner, snacks, pies, bread, sandwiches, kid lunches... In other words, it wouldn't be in my kitchen. I'd still have a deep sink, though, and counter tops and cabinet space for storing all of my oils, butters, molds. I'd have shallow shelving on the wall above my soaping counter where I could store all of my EOs (alphabetically) like spices. I'd have a table for cutting and finishing soaps, and a table for packaging and shipping. I'd have baker's racks for storing both curing and cured soaps, and I'd have a nice desk and filing cabinet for the business end of things. And it would all be right there, in the same room, a place for everything and everything in its place. Ahhhhhh, it blisses me out just to think of it...

What about y'all? What's your dream soap setup?

 

[LomondSoap]

Show me your saponifactory?
Not bloomin' likely Unless you'd like to see very messy kitchen

 

[starduster]

Lovely place to be

Andrea Badgley
Sacred Suds ~ Divinely Inspired Handmade Soaps
I blissed out on that description of your dream soaping studio.
Thankyou

 

[Soapmomma]

Ok, here's my soap (disaster) corner-- it's a mess but it's mine!

The little ham is my 2 1/2 yr old Lily

 

[andreabadgley]

Oh wow! That's awesome! Lily's a cutey, btw

 

[starduster]

Here's your sign

Awesome soap mama, awesome.Cutest lil kid also.
I am so pleased to sea that Soap Sign on the wall in case you were to get lost.