soap on a rope

[Happysoap]

I would like to put my soap for personal use on a rope. What is the best method? I eas thinking of drilling a hole in the soap and passing a rope through it. wheb is the best time to drill? When the soap is new? Drill with what? Hpw do you keep it from breaking while drilling?

 

[Alprinceton]

Try inserting a drinking straw once you filled in the batter.
It is easy to remove and leaves a perfectly round hole.

Good luck!

 

[welsh black]

I've seen a u tube tutorial that shows the hole done when the batter is being poured. She used individual moulds and placed a cut straw in the correct place, took the straw out 24 hours later.

 

[Tienne]

I've found the easiest way (for me, at least) is to punch a hole through the soap after it's unmoulded. You just take the casing off a ballpoint pen and use that to press a hole through the soap. With this method, you can also make soap on a rope out of soaps cut from a loaf. That's how I made the holes on my groupie soaps and these soaps were months old when I did it, so the soap doesn't even have to be new and soft:

 

[CaraBou]

I made a few bars of a soap on a rope once by placing the rope inside the soap batter (log mold). It was a pain in the butt configuring something to hold the yarn in place to the center of the soap without having it move. Honestly, I don't even remember how I rigged it because I was so frustrated that I knew I'd never do it again. It never even occurred to me to use a straw or drill a hole later! DOH!

Tienne, I didn't realize your groupie soaps started off normal and were transformed later in life. Coming of age, I guess!

 

[Tienne]

I used some of the leftover bars of my Dead Sea Mud soaps. It's a really easy way of making holes and you can place them exactly and precisely where you want them.

 

[lsg]

I use the 3 D molds from Bramble Berry.

http://www.brambleberry.com/Spiral-Hands-3D-Mold-P5018.aspx

 

[CaraBou]

Cool, I like the hand. It is kind of coming back to me now: I do remember considering drilling a hole, but wondered if the soap would erode out from the center and dissolve too fast. I'm guessing after my experience with a different method that it would be totally work the risk!