Can anyone help me with a storage question? I know that soap need to cure about 4 week but does it need to sit on racks in the open air that long? Can I stack them in small containers sooner? If so can I us plactic containers? Thanks for any advice.
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helen1949 said:
yes it does
in my opinion, the longer you let it out, the better... if you cut a bar of 4 week old soap down the middle, it is often a bit sticky in the middle. to me that means it can use the open air! I think it's pretty safe to put them in breathable containers after that but for mine I let them breathe as long as possible.
Ditto what Tasha said.
I let mine cure on open racks for at least 4 weeks, and then I store them naked in cardboard boxes with a little headspace and space enough between each bar (one scent to each box), and package only as needed.
IrishLass
I let mine cure on open racks for at least 4 weeks, and then I store them naked in cardboard boxes with a little headspace and space enough between each bar (one scent to each box), and package only as needed.
IrishLass
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After the 4 weeks I store mine in one of those stackable plastic drawer sets. You can buy as many as you need and they are not air tight. So your soap can breathe. Mine is from Walmart and is Sterilite.
KD
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I bought shallow, wire drawers for closet organizers (Menards). I line my soap up in them and stack them crosswise, because there is a little bit of head room over the bars. Each of these trays is about 20 inches square, and I can store 80 to 100 bars of soap in two of them.
