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By David Fisher, About.com

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Layering the Soap in the Mold

Layering the Soap

Layering the Soap

David Fisher
Because this soap is so light, and a little sticky, it seems to work best in either "log" type molds that can be sliced, or silicone molds that are easy to pop the soaps out of. I made a batch of this soap and molded it in a hard, plexiglass individual-soap-bar mold, and it was not only hard to get them out, but also, because it has a tendency to stick to the mold, the finish on the bars was not good.

For this batch, I took the rubber spatulas and layered the different colors (including the white) into the mold.

Variation: For you folks out there with cookie or cake-making equipment, you can mold or pipe this soap just like you would frosting or cookie dough. I globbed some of the soap into my cookie-press and made small soap "candies" that will be great for individual hand washings or decorative bathroom soap bowls. (Be sure you put them on wax paper or a stainless steel cookie sheet - the soap will corrode aluminum!) You could also decorate existing bars of soap like you would a cake or cookies with frosting.

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