It s a time tested technique.
Best way to cut cold process soap.
Make your soap one day and then make sure you can cut it the next.
Whether the soap has a bit of soda ash or uneven edges there are several tricks to making each and every bar picture perfect.
Depending on how firm it is i will go ahead and slice it into one inch thick bars.
Most soaps need 4 or more weeks to cure or to complete the saponification process during which fats water and lye turn into soap.
The art of soap making can be traced as far back as ancient babylon when archaeologists during an excavation first discovered a soap material inside clay cylinders dating as early as 2800 b c.
Place your soaps in an out of the way place to cure.
Soap makers have all kinds of ideas about items to use when it comes to cutting homemade soap.
When making soap to sell or give as a gift it needs to look polished and professional.
This will make your soap harden up a little faster and cure out earlier.
Inscriptions on the cylinders described a process of fats boiled with ashes the world s first soap making method but the babylonians weren t the only ones who benefited.
The two sides of your soap cutter should be cut to measure 6 1 2 long by 5 high.
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If you don t take this step the blade won t cut all the way through your soap.
At this point the soap should cut smoothly without crumbling.
The front stop which keeps your soap from sliding out to ensure bars are all cut the same size should measure 5 long by 2 high.
First you have to decide how wide you want your bars of soap to be.
Most people choose to cut their soaps into a one inch thickness.
Now about your choices of tools to use for how to cut homemade soap.
While soap will form bubbles within the first 24 hours that doesn t mean it s done.
The bottom piece to your soap cutter will need to measure 6 3 4 long by 3 1 2 wide.
If it is still soft and sticky i will wait another day or two before slicing.
The longer it sits the harder and milder it will become.
Once i make a batch of soap i unmold it after 24 hours.
