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jkmcreative

Post subject: FIGURING OUT SOAP MOLD SIZE VS OIL BATCH AMOUNTS

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:14 pm

Joined: Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:14 pm
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I know my title is a tad confusing (hey! I'm a total confusing person.. whatcha expect? lol..) What I am trying to figure out is that if I want a loaf mold to have soaps the size of 3.5" x 2.5" x 1", how do I know the size of a 1 lb, 3 lb, etc size mold? I want to make new ones for myself, and I need to know if the mold should be 12" long, 15" long, etc. Is there a site that will SIMPLY for us DUH's figure out how to make the right sized mold?

The other part of the equation is in order to make 1 lb, 3 lbs, etc of soap, how do I figure out what the % of oil vs lye/water used to make those sizes? The lye calculator does not give you that option to choose if you want to make 1/3/5 etc lbs of soap. This would be such a helpful part of the calculator, first being able to choose your batch size, then choose if you will be using grams/ounce/percentage in oils.

Anyone out there in teach soap world able to help this total dumb DUH? (And no, I'm not blonde! lol... no blonde jokes allowed here..)

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ljm1180

Post subject: Re: FIGURING OUT SOAP MOLD SIZE VS OIL BATCH AMOUNTS

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:39 am

Joined: Sat Dec 11, 2010 7:14 am
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Location: Jefferson City, TN

It might be easier just to decide how many bars of soap you want from each mold and go from there. Example: you want 12 bars of soap. Your soap is 1" thick so your mold would have inside measurements of 3.5 wide x 12 long x 2.5 inches tall. Your volume would be those measurements times .4 (3.5x12x2.5x.4) so you would need 42 ounces to fill the mold.
If you usually do 35% water, then you multiply 42 oz by .35 to get 14.7 oz of water; the rest would be your oil weight: 42-14.7=27.3 oz oils
This is just a general formula, but hopefully it will give you a starting point.

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