EchoDone Round Tube Soap Mold Column Silicone Embed Soap Making Supplies Tool 1000ML

Love this easy to clamp together

So easy to use and high quality. First time out of the box my little embed came out perfectly, no leakage, smooth edges, fantastic!

This was a super simple to use silicone mold for a heart embed for soap. It didn't need additional fasteners or anything.

This made my soaping SO MUCH EASIER.Be sure to use binder clips along the sides if you're using hot process or anything viscous. Or maybe just to be safe anyway.For hot-process soap, be sure to mound it on top, because it will shrink by an inch or more at the top.If you can pour, do that, because spooning in will have some stick and cool on the sides. That will not bond uniformly to the core.Cold-Process, or melt-and-pour should work pretty easily.For MP or hot-process, expect it to cool overnight, and then you can pry open and slice with wire or whatever you like for log molds.This holds a liter, or about a kilo (about 2 pounds) of soap. Basically, about, 667 grams of oils, plus water etc, hot process evaporation. Remember, heap it on top, and as it cools, the center will sink.If you're pouring (CP, MP, Candles), then just fill it to the top, enough that you have a slight bubble on top.If only they were a little less expensive. For a simply cast silicone rubber part, they are massively overpriced, but the batches made know their market, and these pay for themselves in simplicity. I spent 2 hours making a 6 pound batch of soap. Start to finish, including cleanup day 1, and including cutting and stacking on day 2.

I really like this to use for a different shape of my bars of homemade soap. It's well made and I think will last for a very long time. The only problem I ran into and caused me not to give a full 5 star is when I was filling the tube with my soap product and packing the soap down the tube separated and caused a good portion of the soap to spill out. I was able to recover most of the soap so not much was lost. It was something I just didn't think about so buyer/user beware. I decided to purchase a couple types of clamps. In the picture is a regular 1/4 inch beam clamp and the black plastic clamp is a tarp hold down clamp. The strip of metal is from strap/pipe material I use around my house doing specific repair. Anyway the metal strip I will cut to length and use with the beam clamp to keep the tube from opening. This will. be the next time though. As you can see in the top left of the picture is some finished product, oatmeal, honey, tea tea tree and tamanu soap with rose fragrance I made for my wife, which turned out pretty good. The soap is hot process, which I prefer over cold. Just my preference. This is a good and useful product though.

Got these tubes to try for my shaving pucks instead of using Food Grade PVC. These are so much easier to remove the soap than a PVC pipe. My first couple of batches, I just poured directly into the mold. There was some minor tug when removing, but as long as your soap has set you would be fine. I found, if spraying a coat of olive oil before pouring, the release is far much easier.As of now, no signs of leaks, and have allowed me to pour soaps, and remove them fairly quickly.I am concerned on the long term durability of the locking seals. I would be more comfortable if the mold was a little more rigid, as it is still somewhat flexable, but... if push comes to shove, some velcro straps can help hold the mold then.I would like to see a multi-pack of say 6 which would allow you to save on a bulk order. I do intend to buy 6 more units in the near future.

As long as you use bulldog clips like the instructions say and check for alignment by looking through the tube, this mold works perfectly. The heart shape seems to be difficult for any manufacturer to get perfect so reinforcing it with clips is important. Doing those two things produced perfect hearts that needed very little cleanup.

Deciding to test this mold for soap making after reading the negative reviews about leaking, I assembled it without clips and filled it with water. No leaking! It was difficult to close properly, but no more so than any other silicone column mold I use. As far as propping it up is concerned, all column molds require this when holding liquids. Once my soap has firmed up sufficiently, I remove the mold from the container and lay it on its side to get rid of the little bit of bending from propping it up. NOTE: My review only applies to soap making. I have zero experience with resin or any substance that could possibly expand when hardening.

Once I put elastic bands all down the mould it worked fine keeping the soap inside.