Teach Soap

Hi Everybody, I have not made my first soaps yet I am trying to get all the info that I can befor I start been doing alot of reading doing all the reasearch that I can I have been reading alot on this site seeing all the diffrent soaps and how they are made and hoping to buy a couple of books and all the equiptment to start soon. But I was wondering how and where do you store your soaps. I know that they have to sit for 4 to 6 weeks to set up ect? Thanks for any and all help!!

Curtis
P.S. Are their any Men on here or am I the only one

I use a shelving unit (its about 7 ft long) that my son left in his room when he joined the Army. It has wood shelves so I put a piece of cardboard down on the shelves to keep the air circulating under it. I just dont have any room for a wire rack. When I get my dedicated soaping space set up, I plan on getting one.

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Dawn

I have plastic coated metal racks from a restaurant supply store for the soaps that are curing. It has four large shelves. I also have four aluminum bakers racks that have wooden inserts. Those have about 10 shelves each.

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Irena
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I have an 18 shelf shoe rack that sits in my laundry. Each shelf is just high enough for the soap, and it's only 20cm deep, so doesn't take up a lot of room.

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I have a really big walk in closet with walls and walls of coated rack shelving I use this exlarge closet as my soap room.

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Great ideas, mine is a pretty small wire rack as I don't make too many batches yet:)

What do you do with the soap once its cured? To wrap or not, string and label???

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I cure for 2 months and then move to shoe boxes with printer paper between layers (cuz it's cheaper than parchment or freezer papers). Not very professional I guess, but it's cheap & it seems to work!

Right now I have it all on a shelf with paper towel under it. My workshop will have a bunch of coated wire racks though! And once it's cured I put it in plastic shoe boxes that I picked up for under a dollar each at Home Depot. These also make good beginner molds *wink* that's what the first one was originally for.

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

Hello everybody, It is nice to see all the reply it is nice to see how you all store soaps as I am trying to get everything ready befor we start to make soaps I have thought about making a drawer system with spacing of about 6 inches apart. I also have some plastic coated wire shelving that a freing gave me that I could cit to size also. but I am leaning more towards the draw system as it would take less space (for curing) and maybe the shelving to put the cured soap on inside of shoe boxes.

Curtis

I buy dishwasher racks from the restaurant supply store. They're cheap, they stack, theyre made for airflow, and each one holds about 10 lbs of soap.

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Linda
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