We use a cardboard box form, sized to fit easily
into our soap mold.
Reynolds Freezer Paper (from local grocery store) is placed shiny side toward the
cardboard form.
Fold sides and ends of paper over form.
Fold and crease first corner.
Fold and crease second corner..
Use scissors to cut away overlapping excess
paper.
Repeat for second end of paper.
Without taping of otherwise fastening the paper,
remove the paper from the form.
Insert folded paper into wooden soap mold.
Cut corners of paper down to wooden mold.
Fold excess paper over edge of mold and tape
with masking tape.
Fold and tape ends, as well as sides.
Note how easily the cardboard form fits into the
lined mold. The poured soap will be this size and shape as well.
Make a form to help shape liner paper:
Any method to make a form which
will easily fit the finished mold will do.
Here is how we have made the form:
Find a cardboard box with sharp square corners.
Cut the box into quarters.
These quarters will shape and brace the four corners of the form.
Insert a layer of thick cardboard in one end and
one side of the mold. This is not part of the form. It creates a bit of
extra space between the mold and the final cardboard form.
We have used manila folders to make the outer
surface of the form. Then glue and tape the quartered cardboard box into the corners
of the manila cardboard form.
Another layer of cardboard is glued onto the
exposed surface of the corner bracing cardboard box pieces.
Fold down the sides of the mold to see the
finished form. The poured and hardened soap will also look very much like this when
the mold is opened.
