Storing soap after cure

[Michelle0803]

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.

 

[TheGecko]

You box them as soon as they're cured?

Yep. Cardboard boxes, windows...keeps them clean and tidy and ready to sell.

 

[Zany_in_CO]

Wow. I'd love to get to that point sometime.

 

[lucycat]

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.

 

[lucycat]

I never had to store soap very long before shipping to wholesale customers. So they went right from the curing racks into the shipping box, wrapped in tissue paper like you find in the bakery section of the grocery store.

The leftovers are stored in dresser drawers in the guest bedroom, nekkid. I'm currently wrapping them in glassine bags and labeling the few I have left. Then I put them in re-purposed small cardboard boxes my vitamins are shipped in.

This is what 2,187 bars of soap curing in the open air looks like.

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!

 

[Ephemerella]

Yep. Cardboard boxes, windows...keeps them clean and tidy and ready to sell.

That's exactly what I do. Cardboard breathes enough and my studio is relatively temp/humidity controlled.

 

[cmzaha]

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.

 

[Whillow]

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]

he boxes are see through enough to have a paper slid just inside with the info for each batch and cure date.

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.

 

[Whillow]

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.