How to Properly Melt Soap
1 pound of Soap Noodles Shredded Soap
1/2 to 3/4 cup of whole milk (Skim or Goat's milk okay too)
Oven safe pot
1/2 to One Teaspoon of Soap Crafters Fragrance
1 Tablespoon Soap Crafters herb , (Optional)
Molds for soap bars
One plastic spoon (a rice paddle works great)
| Put soap shreds into your oven safe pot with the whole milk. Your soap shreds and milk need to fill your pot. |
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| Cover and put in the oven. Set oven at 150 degrees (up to 200 if your oven tends to run cooler.) | |
| Prepare your molds. It is easiest to use a mold if it is first sprayed with a vegetable spray like PAM. Have your fragrance and colors ready. |
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In one hour, stir carefully and stir well. Mix, but don't create bubbles. It should take any where to one hour to three hours for the soap shreds to melt, depending on how many pounds you are melting. |
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When the soap shreds are completely melted it will look like runny mash potatoes without any |
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Spoon or pour your mixture into molds. Push it in completely, to avoid air pockets in the soap |
| For fast and easy mold removal, put your full mold in the freezer for an hour or more depending on the size of your molds. Take the frozen soap out of the freezer and blow dry it. When condensation forms, the soap will slip right out of the mold. This method makes it very easy to just pop the soap out of the molds. |  |
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Use part of the batch as different colors and scents! |
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Carefully remove your soap from the mold. Set your new bars of soap out to dry. It will be ready to use in 2 weeks. This is called curing. The longer your soap cures, the better it is! You can cheat and use the soap sooner, but it is really best to wait weeks.
Other Notes:
If you are making a variety of scents, keep your unused soap shreds warm while you are using a portion of it. You don't want your unused portion setting up while you're busy being creative.
You need to let your nose be your guide with other fragrance brands. Soap Crafters Fragrances are recommended for crafting soap. Essential Oils will evaporate very easily and the heat of the soap seems to waste some of it. Essential Oils can be used, but you can be more thrifty with Soap Crafters Fragrances. Other brands of Fragrances generally don't produce such a clean, sharp, strong and lasting scent.
It is very important to use low temperature when melting soap shreds.
Don't be tempted to get in a hurry and turn up the heat. The soap will separate and you'll have quite the sloppy mess on your hands! My first soap crafting was like a bad matzoh ball soup because I tried it on a stove top. I have a couple of those bars sitting on my dresser as a reminder to take my time. They look awful.
If your soap turns an orange color: This means it is in too high of heat, or it has been in the oven way too long. This is only a cosmetic problem, the soap is still perfectly fine to use. As a matter of fact, some soap makers do this caramelization intentionally so that they will have that natural color soap!
It is best to use Soap Crafter's molds for soap making or other molds designed for that. Candy molds will work, but the detail is so small that it just doesn't turn out very well. I've also tried the soap molds from Wal-Mart. Those molds are okay, but again the detail tends to be too small leaving you with a bar of soap that you can't quite tell what it is.
Soap Making by Melting Shredded Soap
A lot of people use a crock pot to melt soap, while this works well for some people, it isn't for everyone.
Crock pots have the heating elements in the sides of the pot. Because of that you will need to fill your crockpot all the way up with soap so the heat can get to it. If you have just a small amount in there then it won't melt properly.
Also, temperatures are different on all those crockpots. Low might be too low on one pot and high might be too high. So, some work nicely and some don't.
The most reliable method to melt soap is to use freshly made, uncured soap and use the oven method described above.
Pam
Soap Noodles is the trademark
Soap Noodles is the trademark name, it is called shredded soap. No, currently we are only manufacturing the basic and goat's milk formulas. We are not currently making any animal fat shredded soaps.
Pam
Tallow
Are there tallow based soap noodles and can they be reheated?
Sure. Pam
Sure.
Pam
additives to black soap
Can I add citric juices to the Black soap and maybe other skin improvement ingredients?
It is really best not to.
It is really best not to. I'll take more liquid to melt it and the soap might not dry properly. If too much liquid is used then it shrinks all out of shape when it cures.
Remelting soap noodle soap
I made my first batch of soap over the weekend and am wondering if I can re-melt some to add fragrance/herbs? It is made from the goatsmilk soap noodles.
You can use a crock pot. But
You can use a crock pot. But you have to make sure the pot is full of soap, otherwise it doesn't work so well. The heating elements are in the sides of the crock pot and that causes problems if it isn't all the way full.
A fry daddy, or another device where the heating element is in the bottom works much better.
But, if what you use is Teflon coated you won't be able to use it for food anymore. The soap will sink into the Teflon and you never really get it all out.
Pam
Soap Noodles
Just wondering if I can heat the soap noodles in a crock pot.
Using metal mold
Nope. It works great. After you pour the soap into it, put it in the freezer for about 1/2 hr to 45 minutes. It should pop right out.
Oh, one more thing. The type of soap on this page is slightly more difficult with a metal mold. Melt and Pour soap is very easy. You might want to line it with plastic wrap so you can pull the soap out easily. Our Soap Noodles shredded soaps do not shrink in the freezer. So it isn't that easy to get out of a metal mold. You'll need to put this type of soap in the freezer for a couple of hours, then pull it out of the mold, unless your mold is flexible enough to twist and pop the soap out.
metal soap mold
Are there any issues when using a metal loaf mold with melt and pour soap??
No, don't cover it. It needs
No, don't cover it. It needs to be in the open air in a dry place so the water can evaporate out. If your basement is humid then put it in another place that is dryer.
the curing process
After i made my soap i noticed about three hours later it was very wet, i have it in the basement curing, does it need to be covered and should it be in a dryer place than a basement?
Soap should last about a year
Soap should last about a year before it takes on that rancid smell when the oils break down. It all depends on how you store it, of course. The more heat it is exposed to, the faster it will go rancid. Even when the oils break down and go rancid, it is still good soap. It is just discolored and smells off is all.
Sure, you can wrap it in paper as soon as it is fully cured.
No, soap never needs a preservative.
new to soap noodles
Hi,
I recently bought a whole bunch of soap noodles and am just starting to rebatch it. My questions are: what is the shelf life of the soap, once rebatched? Is the shelf life shorter when you add additional oils? I assume it can be wrapped in paper, like regular CP soap, please let me know if that's not the case. Do you need to add a preservative if you're making, say, the recipes you post with the cucumber or banana?\
thanks.
--Melanie
You can use a deep fat fryer,
You can use a deep fat fryer, the kind with a temperature dial. The problem is, you won't be able to use it for cooking later because the teflon in it will soak up soap. You need to fill the pot more than half way with soap. If there is too little soap in there it doesn't melt very well, so a full pot is better.
alternative heating method
My oven is old old old and won't go below 250. How else can I use soap noodles or soap shreds to rebatch?