When to unmold

[Hales]

When do you unmold an olive oil soap? For all my other types of soaps, I generally unmold after 1 day. But for an Olive oil soap, with it being so much softer at first, when do you unmold, so not to damage the look of it?

 

[AshleyR]

I found my olive oil soap set up pretty fast. I cut it after about 12 hours and it was pretty hard.

 

[carebear]

you unmold it when you are confident you won't muck it up.

sorry I cannot be more specific but it depends on so much - you want it firm enough to stand up to some manipulation. It depends on your house temp, your mold, if it gelled, how much water went into the soap, your type of olive oil...

so you are going to have to just wing it!

 

[IanT]

think of it like a cake, you wouldnt want to cut a cake when it wasnt baked all the way through because then the slices would not be nicely defined... soap is the same way

 

[starduster]

Well put

think of it like a cake, you wouldnt want to cut a cake when it wasnt baked all the way through because then the slices would not be nicely defined... soap is the same way

Oh wow.Teacher that is put perfectly.

 

[IanT]

hehe why thank you .... I love metaphores! (sp??...that looks weird!)

 

[Guest]

hehe why thank you .... I love metaphores! (sp??...that looks weird!)

Metaphors, similes.... you are a man I can relate to! I often come to understanding this way, so I tend to explain this way as well.