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How to Get Ready to Make Soap
Soap Making Supplies & Equipment
Soap Making Ingredients for Making Homemade Lye Soap
Combining Water & Lye to Make Homemade Soap
How to Prepare Soap Molds
How to Prepare Oils to Make Homemade Lye Soap
Equalizing the Temperatures of Lye & Oils for Soap Making
How to Stir Soap Mixture to a Trace for Homemade Soap Making
How to Mix Soap Making Additives to Make Homemade Lye Soap
How to Pour Soap into Molds for Homemade Soap Making
Wrapping & Curing Soap Molds for Homemade Lye Soap Making
How to Remove Soap from the Molds & Cut the Soap into Bars
Hand Milling or French Milling Soap for Homemade Lye Soap Making
Hand Mill Additives for Homemade Lye Soap Making
How to Decorate Finished Homemade Lye Soap
Summary: Learn how to insulate and cure your soap while in the molds in this free video on homemade soap making.
Sheryl Andrews is an enthusiastic advocate of the home arts. This award-winning quilter and crafter has spent a lifetime exploring the depths of traditional home skills. Sheryl, who...read more
"And now I’m going to wrap it in the towels so these are some of the extra towels that seem to accumulate around the house. We want to wrap it really thoroughly and tightly and make sure that you get the top too. And just keep wrapping this until you’ve got it nice and insulated, this may look a little like overkill, but I want to make sure we’re not losing any of that heat quickly, it’s got to dissipate very slowly. Okay, it’s tight to the cutting board, it’s tightly wrapped. I was going to use a pin on there, but I don’t think I need it, I think I’ll just put one over the top to hold it. Now this will sit in a draft free environment for 24 to 48 hours. Inside there, the soap will be finishing, completing it’s cooking process and the next step then will be to remove this from the mold and allow it to dry and further cure. "
eHow Article: Wrapping & Curing Soap Molds for Homemade Lye Soap Making
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Comments
terri4 said
on 10/16/2008 Hi Sheryl,
Do you have an instructional book with recipes? This is my first time researching homemade soap and your videos were very informative.
Terri