Went to the hardware store today and picked up a two foot section of 2" pvc pipe and a matching slip cap. Also picked up a four foot 2" wooden dowel. Rebatched some soap crumbles (ok i grated up some other soap too just for volume) and scooped the mess into the capped tube. After a few whacks of the capped end on the ground to get some bubbles out, I pushed the dowel down in there and tamped it down a couple times. Once it was cool, I used a hammer to tap the cap off, then turned the contraption upside down so the dowel was on the ground. Some steady downward pressure on the pvc pipe and the dowel pushed the round plug of soap out nice and clean. There was one break about halfway down, but other than that I have a nice two-foot section of round soap ready to be cut into bars.
The end where the cap was has a kind of mushroomy appearance where the soap filled the gap between the pipe and cap, but that's no big deal. There's some soap residue still in the pipe, and some caked on the dowel, but I don't mind that either. I'm sure the neighbors think I'm some weird shaman or something after walking around outside banging the big stick on the ground.
The end where the cap was has a kind of mushroomy appearance where the soap filled the gap between the pipe and cap, but that's no big deal. There's some soap residue still in the pipe, and some caked on the dowel, but I don't mind that either. I'm sure the neighbors think I'm some weird shaman or something after walking around outside banging the big stick on the ground.