{"id":6747,"date":"2011-08-21T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatcakessoapworks.com\/handmade-soap-blog\/?p=6747"},"modified":"2017-09-25T10:02:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T16:02:06","slug":"on-the-curing-rack-cherry-blossom-soap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatcakessoapworks.com\/handmade-soap-blog\/index.php\/on-the-curing-rack-cherry-blossom-soap\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Curing Rack: Cherry Blossom Soap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just in case you haven’t been following the saga of the PVC Pipe Soap Experiment, you may find Part 1<\/a> and Part 2<\/a> quite interesting. <\/p>\n

It was no easy task getting the soap out of the pipe, let me tell you. First, I put the pipe in the freezer for a couple hours on Friday night, then took it out and tried to push the soap out. No luck, so I put the soap back in the freezer and went to bed.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I read all the lovely comments with added suggestions on how to get the soap out, and decided to try a couple of ways to warm up the pipe. Meanwhile, I could see that the soap was trying to pull away from the sides of the pipe, except at the bottom where the glycerin soap plug was. So I took a knife and worked it between that soap and the pipe. <\/p>\n

First pipe warming exercise was to use my heat gun. I figured that might be the least messy way to go. So after warming up the pipe for about 5 minutes, I took one of my hand weights and set it on end, placed some plastic wrap over it, and started pushing against the soap. Absolutely no movement whatsoever.<\/p>\n

Second pipe warming exercise was to boil a pot of water and pour it over the pipe, which was propped in the sink. Same leverage against my hand weight – and nothing.<\/p>\n

Put the soap back in the freezer, posted this photo on Facebook, and got more suggestions on how to get the soap out:<\/p>\n

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PVC Pipe Soap in my freezer, resting with the veggies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The key was letting it sweat. I pulled it out of the freezer again, only this time I let it sit there until the pipe was really wet. And, I let Hubby lean on it (which may have been the real key all along!). It finally slid out, but it was still frozen and getting late, so I let it thaw overnight and then sliced it up this morning:<\/p>\n

\"Cherry<\/a>
Cherry Blossom Soap by Great Cakes Soapworks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are eight soaps, each weighs more than five ounces. About half of them have some sort of gap where the pink soap didn’t quite fill in around the “petals”, the worst is this one, so not too bad:<\/p>\n

\"Cherry<\/a>
Cherry Blossom Soap with a small hole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They sure smell fabulous!! My plan is to make them the Soap of the Week in about a month. And maybe I will try doing another batch before then, now that I know how it works (and will likely NEVER forget to line the pipe again!). Any suggestions for scents or colors?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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