Teach Soap

There are so many ways of doing soap and I'm wanting a chart to delineate curing time frames for cure. I know depending on the mold wood loaf, wood slab, milk cartons all make a difference in cure rates.

This is what I do generally but not exclusively for cp soaping with 38 % distilled water rate.

CP 110 degrees insulated in cardboard boxes wrapped in a towel 4 weeks cure

CP 110 degrees molded and put into 170* oven and turned off 4 weeks cure

CP non gell soap molded and put into the refer overnight 6 weeks cure

CPHP cp 110 degrees in stainless pot and into a 170 degree oven for 2 hours 2 week cure


Do these time frames look workable and how would one estimate if more or less time was necessary?

Thank you for your consideration!

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I go 4 to 6 weeks with any type of soap. Why make it more difficult than it needs to be.

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Irena
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I agree...
Depending on your recipe some bars are going to keep curing and shrinking long after others. 4-6 weeks is a good rule of thumb for most soaps.

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- Mickey!

I would have to say the same, 6 wks is safe only once did it take me longer and that is because of too much water in my recipe in error when I was first starting out. With that said most of my soap cure in 4 wks except my whipped soaps.

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I agree--4 to 6 weeks for most soaps except castile. Although I just used a gelled CP bar that I made last year and it was even more lovely than right after cure (although the scent was pretty faded).