Remelting M&p Soap

[moniek]

How Many Times Can You Remelt M&p Soap Without Damaging The Qualtity Of The Product?

[soapmom25]

Some sources say just once, other sources say infinitely. My experience (over 5 years now) is about 2 times. Kinda depends on how you treated it the first melt ~ whether it had a heavy dye and/or scent load, and how hot you let it get. Getting it too hot limits you to about 1 time heating, then it's toast.

Have you already made something and now want to "re-do" it?

[LovelyLathers]

I agree with SoapMom esspecially about the temp you heat it at. When I am doing alot with it I melt it in my soap melting pot and take a little at a time out to scent and color. The pot keeps it at a sustained temp and this way you do not have to keep reheating. When just doing a small batch I do it in the mirco but only for short bursts, some may still be in chunks but as I am stirring they melt in. By doing this it tends not to over heat. hth, Sue

[Noodle]

I remelt MP when necessary and I never have any problems. I do melt it with additional base that has never been used.

[soapmom25]

I do melt it with additional base that has never been used.

I've done that too! I keep "samples" around alot, and when I feel like it's time for a new set, I throw the old ones into a batch with soap just getting melted for the first time.

I also save all my "scraps" from when we trim soaps, and store them in color coded covered tubs and dump them in my stock pots when I color batches. Works great, and I have little to no "waste"!

[Noodle]

soapmom25, you sound almost exactly like me! This is what I do as well. I store my scraps in marked containers. If I cannot make a full bar after pouring, then that becomes a "scrap" and I cut it up into samples. I give a way a lot of samples. But when I need bars to sell and run out of a particular scent, I take any remaining samples in the scent that I plan on making and put it in with the new base to melt. I pour the hot finished base into bars. Sometimes I get exactly enough full size bars. If not, the whole sample process starts all over again.