Moldy soap?

[grayceworks]

What we do know is that, whatever it is, it's alive.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxZfFgizACw&t=1m3s]It's Aliiivvveee!!! [/ame]

 

[Lin]

a picture on the internet is a bit of a rorschach, everyone is going to see something different that may be the item, may be the photo/camera, may be their computer screens...

 

[ilovesoap2]

Thanks for your input. I've already done as you mentioned.

Just rather be safe than sorry, kwim?

 

[adrydel]

Adding ingredients like cocoa powder is not the problem. I've done it many times. However, i do think that maybe saran wrap was not the best choice to use as packaging particularly if you were shipping it and was coming from a tropical climate. Mold gros in humidity like wildfire. I live in florida so i don't use plastic wrap. I use moisture absorbent butcher paper. It works really well.

 

[Susie]

I would never use plastic wrap to wrap soap, either. I put bar soaps into a brown paper bag then into the box to ship them to my kids. They know to take them out and leave open to air.

 

[green soap]

I agree that CP soap wrapped in plastic seems like a bad idea, mainly in the tropics. If soaps must be wrapped, use paper or something that breathes.

Also, just FYI, most essential oils, but mainly cinnamon, tea tree and lemongrass EO are effective against mold, or at least some molds.

http://joshealthcorner.blogspot.com/2011/02/toxic-mold-vs-essential-oils.html

 

[eleraine]

Thanks for the input! Really appreciate it.

My regular bars which are wrapped in shrink bands appear to be just fine (storage conditions are the same) but somehow, the soaps that are completely sealed have this issue.

I've decided to chuck them into tea bags before placing them in cotton fabric bags and see how that would work. Ohlordy, what a nightmare it is curing soap in the tropics. =.=