Thread: How can I reshape a (almost new) puck?

Hey all, I bought myself a nice wee wooden soap bowl and a puck of Col Conk soap about a week ago, unfortunately the puck is slightly too tall for the lid to fit on the bowl, and not wide enough for a snug fit inside the bowl, so I got it into my head that maybe I could reshape the puck somehow to fit into the bowl.

I'd like a low-effort method of doing this that keeps as much of the soap as possible (i.e no grating it up then compressing it), and have heard of microwaving soaps to re-mould them. Would this work for me? I have an appropriately sized cast to pour the melted soap into, so would like to do it this way if possible.

I have recently had the same problem of soaps being to tall at First I was trimmimg the bottoms so they would sit lower in the bowl, then I just decided to melt them in the microwave and pour them in to my bowls and that worked great. It takes less than 10 seconds to melt a puck and like 20 mins for it to reharden.

Awesome thanks. I assume you used the high power setting? I'd hate to destroy my soap or my microwave by using too high a power setting (especially since it's not actually my microwave I'll be doing it in).

I have a cheap microwave that just has a timer dial, I turned it to 15 seconds and watched through the glass I actually stopped it before the entire puck was melted, the rest melted as it ws sitting on the countertop.

Old School, What exactly does the clay in the soap do? I didnt mix mine while it was drying because I didnt know any better, but the next day I did try my saops and they lathered the same as they did before the melt.

Clay is put in shaving soaps to make it more slippery.

i have re-shaped glycerin soaps by putting the pucks is a ziplock bag and placing that into a measuring cup of very hot water and letting it sit for a few minutes the soaps usually become paste like this way not totally liquid... this has limited use on triple milled soaps but lots of them will soften some

Jim I thought the Glycerin was what made it slippery. ok so if I melted my TGQ soaps that I know have a lot of glycerine and I did not mix them while drying, if they are still slippery then I did not mess them up right ? They seem pretty thick when I melted them Im hoping the clay would have stayed suspended long enough till they hardened.

OK well that makes me feel better, because my soaps still perform the same, and after I melted them and they dried someone else asked if I mixed them, so I couldnt wait till they hardened to see if they still worked.. Im gonna PM Colleen and ask her if its ok to Nuke her soaps.

I don't know what flavor you have with your soap but you can kick it up a notch by putting in a couple teaspoons of your favorite cologne [Bay Rum] after it melts and stir. You should try to compliment the scent that it already is.

bj

The Glycerine in soaps help make it slippery, but the clay makes it "slick" gives an extra kick to the soap to make sure the razor glides over your face rather than skipping.