First you have to decide how wide you want your bars of soap to be.
Best way to cut cold process soap.
Speed up the process.
Once i make a batch of soap i unmold it after 24 hours.
While soap will form bubbles within the first 24 hours that doesn t mean it s done.
If it is still soft and sticky i will wait another day or two before slicing.
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The longer it sits the harder and milder it will become.
When making soap to sell or give as a gift it needs to look polished and professional.
It s a time tested technique.
Whether the soap has a bit of soda ash or uneven edges there are several tricks to making each and every bar picture perfect.
Place your soaps in an out of the way place to cure.
Unfortunately not every batch comes straight out of the mold this way.
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.
Most people choose to cut their soaps into a one inch thickness.
The two sides of your soap cutter should be cut to measure 6 1 2 long by 5 high.
Make your soap one day and then make sure you can cut it the next.
At this point the soap should cut smoothly without crumbling.
Depending on how firm it is i will go ahead and slice it into one inch thick bars.
If you don t take this step the blade won t cut all the way through your soap.
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.
This will make your soap harden up a little faster and cure out earlier.
Some use guitar strings the wire ones.
Soap makers have all kinds of ideas about items to use when it comes to cutting homemade soap.
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 bottom piece to your soap cutter will need to measure 6 3 4 long by 3 1 2 wide.
