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We see this dilemma so often from HP people who
want to produce a quantity of soap efficiently. About the
only way to get HP out of a pot is to pour or dip it out. With
our 15 Gallon Oil/Wax Heater, you would have to dip it out. This
would be very slow, time consuming and messy. To the best
of our knowledge, no one makes a pot with a way to heat and pour
out of for HP soap. The only option would be a steam kettle that
would run several thousands of dollars at the minimum. Even this
does not solve the problem – it would only delay it.
One person can heat and stir about 3 batches of
HP soap a day. You could have several kettles but you would be
running back and forth between molds and pots, etc. By this
time, you were doing all of this, you could be easily pouring
1000 lbs of soap in 7 to 8 hours (by yourself) if you were doing
the CP method. And, you would be expending a whole lot less
energy doing so.
If you want to produce quality soap in quantity
and produce in just a few hours what it otherwise would have
taken all day to produce using the HP method, then you
need to go to CP soap.
In this day and age when energy costs are also
critical, you would save on energy costs with the CP method in
that the soap provides its own saponification heat.
Additionally, the overall cost of molds is
less. Cutting is a whole lot faster and labor in general is
about 1/2 to 1/3 less. Quality of base oils is better as you are
not over cooking them.
Most importantly, however, health-wise, you
would not be standing around breathing cooking oil and lye fumes
all day.
Just some thoughts to think about!
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