Soap Making Mold

All sorts of molds are available for making soaps at home. Here’s a rundown of some of your choices and where you can find them.

At your local craft store you will likely find a couple of options for soap molds. They will probably all be made of plastic and relatively inexpensive.

You’ll find the classic bar-shaped molds, maybe some with a shape molded in the bottom so that the top of the soap looks pretty or has a word printed on it. You’ll probably also find some basic novelty shapes like hearts, stars, flowers and round or disk-shaped molds.

These molds are fine for when you are learning how to make soap and will help you make cute soaps you can give as gifts or just use yourself. But as you get more obsessed with soap making, you might want to explore some of the other options that are out there.

The next step up for most crafters is probably silicone molds. Made from the same stuff as those flexible muffin tins and cake pans, these molds come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, are quite durable and flexible.

A great source for more different (and some downright strange) soap molds is Soap and Candle Molds. Most of these molds could be used for either soap or candle making (check for holes before you pour).

You can find everything from vegetable molds to dog bones, bride and groom statues, sea shells, muffins, cinnamon sticks and some other things I can’t talk about on a family website.

Silicone can also be used to make custom molds, which you can do yourself or have a manufacturer fabricate one for you.

Polystyrene (yes, that stuff they make take-out boxes out of) makes strong, heavy-duty soap molds. The shapes are usually pretty simple but intricate patterns can be carved into the base of the soap mold. To see for yourself, check out this Bramble Berry page.

You can also purchase what are called “slab” molds, which allow you to pour a bunch of soaps into the same mold but that are designed to be cut apart with ease. It’s more convenient to work with a slab mold if you have to make a lot of soap and don’t want to have to cut the bars by hand.

If you don’t mind doing a little cutting by hand, consider a wooden soap mold. Wooden molds, of course, are the traditional way to make soap. These molds are basically wooden boxes, usually with hinged sides so that you can open the box up and easily slide the soap out once it is hardened. Sometimes you can purchase a cutter attachment for your mold to make the cutting a little easier, or you can just cut by hand.

If you’d like to experiment with any of these molds but can’t find them where you live, check out the following online resources:

• Bramble Berry: A wide variety of molds
• Chemistry Store: Mostly Milky Way molds (high-quality plastic)
• From Nature With Love: Plastic and wooden molds
• Soap and Candle Molds: Silicone molds
• SoapEquipment.com: All kinds of soap making equipment and supplies
• Mold Market: Custom personalized molds and soap making supplies

Most molds, other than wooden molds, can be cleaned with water and a small amount of soap. Your wooden molds should be treated like any other wooden item you have in the house.

Store molds away from light and heat so they do not warp or discolor..

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