Soap Makers Help!

[Backyard Buddies]

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I'm glad it's not just me. My house isn't large, so there's nowhere else to put stuff. I'm reluctant to put the oils and such out in the shed, not only because I'd have to haul them back in again, but because of the heat issue.

What do the rest of you guys do about storing all of your stuff?

 

[chiknwhisperer]

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I'm glad it's not just me. My house isn't large, so there's nowhere else to put stuff. I'm reluctant to put the oils and such out in the shed, not only because I'd have to haul them back in again, but because of the heat issue.

What do the rest of you guys do about storing all of your stuff?

There are 6 of us and we do have a 3 bedroom house but it is very small. The garage is part of the basement and it is to small to lol. My old mini van kinda fit in it until I broke a side mirror backing out because I forgot to fold it in. Now I have a full size van and it has the same problem as DH's truck. It can't fit under the raised porch above the garage lol.

 

[breconbcs]

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I have my shelves downstairs thankfully to dry everything on. But till the oldest leaves next month for University I have to keep all the supplies in the kitchen. We have an empty corner space (no cupboard yet) that I store all the bigger jugs under as well as my scale. I also have a medium/large rubbermaid container filled with all the molds, packaging, lye, etc. Then I have my shelf...

Dh has said he will be happy to see it all downstairs but he will miss me.

 

[TM Chickens]

Morgaine, where do you get the Black Raspberry Cream? I can't find it anywhere.

 

[Morgaine]

Here ya go.
http://store.scent-works.com/blracr.html

Several places have it, some are under Black Raspberry Vanilla though.

 

[Backyard Buddies]

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I have my shelves downstairs thankfully to dry everything on. But till the oldest leaves next month for University I have to keep all the supplies in the kitchen. We have an empty corner space (no cupboard yet) that I store all the bigger jugs under as well as my scale. I also have a medium/large rubbermaid container filled with all the molds, packaging, lye, etc. Then I have my shelf...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/24222_shelf.jpg

Dh has said he will be happy to see it all downstairs but he will miss me.

OK, I really did Laugh Out Loud at that one. Sad but true, isn't it?

I somewhat utilize the space under the breakfast bar for storing my oil containers and I also have a large Rubbermaid container (actually, it was my chick brooder - what does THAT say?) where I store all of the rest of my stuff except for the lye which is in a box next to the fridge. My stuff is most definitely in the way, but I'm not sure I have an answer to that problem. It's a 3 bedroom house and all three bedrooms are taken by people. There's no house/garage access, so that's not an easy option either. There's no basement either. I usually have two batches on the breakfast bar - one in the mold, one on a rack. As I move a new batch from the mold to the rack, I move the previous rack soaps to the fireplace hearth in the living room, which is lined with paper (I can fit 4 batches on the hearth), then to boxes (which are at least easier to put in a closet or wherever). It's not a perfect system by any means because it means I can't do any more than 5 - 6 batches a week.

 

[Backyard Buddies]

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So, where do you put your oils and such?

 

[chiknwhisperer]

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So, where do you put your oils and such?

lol, Some are in the kitchen. Some are next to my side of the couch along with my wool and and a bunch of other soap stuff. My facier little shaped molds are all sitting in the wash sink in the basement on the side that I don't use. There are oils in a cabinet in the basement. The lye is in a box in the basement next to the deep frezzer because I use that as a table. I have my curing rack across from my washer and dryer and when that is full I have a shelf that I am using. Actually its the middle shelf of a three shelf thingy. Anyway the soaps that get moved over there get staked and in order to fit more I use a flat cardboard box to layer the soaps. Sometimes after I pour my soap into the molds I leave them upstairs under my sewing machine if I don't have room downstairs. Can I just build an addition lol. Unfortunatly the yard is to small to do that to. Oh and sometimes it overflows into the dinning room. Ok actually its in the dinning room all the time lately.

 

[ametauss]

I don't know how you ladies do it with your soap stuff all over....

I started that way and found that it was in the way, WAY too much of the time...

I took over a small room off of the garage that only has a fan/light in it...

It was a junk room and I just decided I could live without much of the junk...

I moved in an old two piece chest and open shelf unit and started with that... then I moved my desk from the home office out there... soon I will be hanging some curring shelves and then the tough part is getting some electricity out there.... of course it's hot in summer and cold in winter w/o any air other than outside air from a sliding glass door....

I want to get a hot plate and I could run an extension cord to the garage and that way I wouldn't have to haul the soap stuff to the kitchen upstairs to make batches....

This is a work in progress and the "junk" room still has junk in it that I'm slowly going thru....

 

[chiknwhisperer]

I wish I had a junk room. I would definitely use it. The FM went better today then it has in the last few weeks. One lady that looked for me a couple weekends back when we had to move the FM bought 5 of my felted soaps! She said she will be back next week for more. One of the other flower vendors is mentioning my name to a few other people to help drum up business.

Although I did have one lady today that entirely annoyed me. She bought one of my samples and said that she buys soaps to use as air fresheners in her car

She did not now that the soap does eventually go bad. She was under the impression that they were like the decorative soaps from a store.