| mywalton, Using a metal mold can be frustrating at best. A metal mold can not be flexed enough to help release the soap easily , therefore you will have to dig out the soap in many cases. If you had used an aluminum mold, which lye will react with, = not good, I would just toss it and chalk it up to experience. I, at times, use hard plastic hearts which performs like a metal mold; I/we like the shape that these give us, be, like I said above, like metal molds, they are hard to get the soap out. I will wait until the soap shrinks a bit and then try to get the soap out. If that doesn’t work, I’ll try to heat the bottom of the mold, to get the soap to melt a bit, and then try again to remove the soap.
Or, the freezer method, by putting the fresh soap into the freezer for a few hours, then slap the mold upside down on a counter-top, and hope that the soap will just drop out. hth |
