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01-13-2012, 06:25 AM #1
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Thanked: 2MWF puck looks like a dry crakced desert floor.
Is that normal? I've only had it a couple weeks and it looks like ground that hasn't seen any rain in a year or better. I've been soaking it hot water in the sink while I take my shower.
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01-13-2012, 06:40 AM #2
Yes, this is normal and nothing to worry about, it doesn't affect the soap at all.
But you should not soak it in hot water, lanolin melts at aproximate 100F/38C and if you use water hotter than this it will affect the performance significantly.Need help or tutoring? Check out the .
Rune
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01-13-2012, 07:34 AM #3
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Thanked: 2Thanks for the advice on temp. I pulled the puck out of my glass bowl and there was a puddle of what I assume to be lanolin at the bottom of it. So I put that aside, grated the rest of the soap and then mixed it all back together. It did seem like the soap wasn't doing as well as when I first got it.
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01-13-2012, 09:50 AM #4
Some find MWF to be a little tricky to lather, but as long as you keep the temperatur right and load the brush enough (45-60 sec) it is a great soap.
Some have said they find it easier to lather after grating it, I guess this might have to do with that you get a more airy consistency to the soap that makes it load easier.Need help or tutoring? Check out the .
Rune
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01-13-2012, 10:43 AM #5
Thanks for the information, I was wondering if you could grate MWF and then place into a mug.
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01-13-2012, 01:48 PM #6
How do you grate this? I actually tried, maybe I used too fine a grate, I got all kinds of particles stuck in my brush and on my face.
My 15 year old daughter made me a shaving bowl for Christmas in her ceramics class. I'd shown her the puck, sketched out some dimensions.
It's too small for the puck, but I like the bowl and would like to use it.
Can the soap be remelted?
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01-13-2012, 02:02 PM #7
I have not tried to grate it myself, but a regular cheese grater should work.
When I grate soaps I just take a little bit at the time and press it quite hard into the bowl, I use the top of a empty deodorant stick to press.
MWF can not be remelted because of the lanolin.Need help or tutoring? Check out the .
Rune
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01-13-2012, 02:14 PM #8
I grated my Truefitt & Hill puck using the fine side of my grater, then pressed it all down into a small dollar store ceramic sugar bowl with my thumbs. It took a while, but now the soap is reformed and pretty close to as hard as the original puck. I have a ton of samples with which I've done the same. I bought five of those sugar bowls, plus I had an old crystal one that I use, so I can say that the grating technique definitely works.
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01-13-2012, 02:29 PM #9
If you store the soap in an airtight container (grated or ungrated) it will prevent the death valley thing that happens to it from drying out. Ziplock and others make such a thing with a screw-on lid and can be found in Walmart or Target.
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01-13-2012, 02:38 PM #10
I've grated a puck of MWF soap using a normal cheese grater (something like this: Restaurant Supplies, Restaurant Equipment, Kitchenware & Cutlery :: Schweppe, Inc.). It came out, as cheese would, in short curly strands. I gathered them all up and had no problem pressing them into a big mug. Didn't get any particles or anything adverse when I lathered - it worked just like lathering a non-grated soap.
That being said, I still wasn't too happy with the lather, but that's another story.