Michelle0803
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Once cured I box and label my soaps then store in cardboard parts bins on a plastic shelving unit. In alphabetical order by name because I'm OCD like that.
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Yep. Cardboard boxes, windows...keeps them clean and tidy and ready to sell.
Zany_in_CO
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I second baseball card boxes. Cheap, many sizes and the boxes can stack into a fairly compact area. I mostly use a long single box that will hold a log of up to14 bars. I add a card holder at the end to record scent/date made. I either order them on-line or pick up at a local baseball card store.
I box at 3 weeks and have never had an issue. Nothing about the cardboard box prevents moisture evaporation. If the humidity is high, I add a couple of silica packs to the box.
I box at 3 weeks and have never had an issue. Nothing about the cardboard box prevents moisture evaporation. If the humidity is high, I add a couple of silica packs to the box.
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Beautiful. However, the best thing I see about this photo is that it looks like a workshop where more than one person probably works. I hope you had a helper. I don't think my body would hold out making this many soaps within a 4-week curing period!
That's exactly what I do. Cardboard breathes enough and my studio is relatively temp/humidity controlled.
When I retired from soaping a few years ago I had racks of soaps to store. I put my soaps in brown bags which I labeled with the name and stored them in my crates. This was in 2020, and I still have 3 large crates of these soaps. The scents are holding just fine and no signs of DOS.
I am just a small business soap maker so I really don't have oodles of soap to cure and store. I buy small 4000ml size plastic boxes with lids for stacking ( they are about the size of a shoebox) and then drill small holes throughout the sides and set each batch in it's own box on paper towel and space them out and add a few Silica packs (the ones from pill bottles and Covid packs). The boxes are see through enough to have a paper slid just inside with the info for each batch and cure date. Once they are finished curing I make the boxes and label them and they are ready for markets and I just have to grab whatever boxes I want to sell. I have new shelves in the basement and I purchased a dehumidifier to help with the humidity.
Zany_in_CO
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Good thinking!
I do something similar. Cure card + SoapCalc Printout (date made) with notes added after the fact. Comes in handy... especially as memory wanes with age. 
That is even better. Great tip....since I continue to think my memory will continue to be as good as it used to be.....boy am I wrong.Cure card + SoapCalc Printout (date made) with notes added after the fact. Comes in handy... especially as memory wanes with age.
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