some finished soap

Below is my cure rack. Overflowing for the last couple events of the camping season and for family and friends for Christmas. I try different molds often to see how they come out. The large discs are made from the empty plastic coconut oil containers. The smaller discs are from the plastic containers for crystal lite that my cousin and friend are saving for me for just this purpose. The bars are all cut with a knife from a large block. I have found that the best container that I have used so far is a silverware drawer separator; it gives nice clean edges and only requires one cut to make a bar if I line it with parchment or freezer paper. The flecks are from ground lavender buds. Others contain ground oatmeal, but it does not show well in this photo.
Here is my chocolate soap, just being cut. It has since cured to be dark brown throughout the entire bar (the dark color that looks like a rind). The bar that has the glossy side facing the camera was scraped to recover some of the cocoa butter that I added (at trace to make sure the oils weren't incorporated with the lye solution). I was able to take the scraping and residue from the soap pot (after 24 hours) to make a large awesome smelling soap ball!



Isn't that a LOT of soap?! Eleven pounds total!
There in the lower right corner is the soap ball mentioned above.