Dies for forming soap with attached member

An apparatus for producing a body of soap of a size to be grasped and manipulated in a hand, said body having a bottom surface, a side surface extending upwardly from the bottom surface, a side rim extending outwardly from the side surface and having a side rim surface, and an upper surface with a generally cup-shaped adapter embedded therein, the adapter including a horizontally extending base, a wall extending upwardly from the base, and a flange extending outwardly from an upper end of said wall, said apparatus comprising at least a first die and a second die together defining a cavity for forming said body of soap, the first die including an ejection pin having a ledge adapted to engage against the adapter flange, and an end projecting downwardly from said ledge, said projecting end having a smaller diameter than said ledge to permit said end to project within said adapter against said base, the first die further including an outer die portion having a surface aligned with and extending outwardly from the ledge to form, together with said ledge, the upper soap body surface, and means for moving the pin inwardly relative to the outer die portion to eject a molded soap body therefrom, said second die including an inner side die surface tapering downwardly and inwardly from a diameter generally equal to the outer diameter of the die surface of the outer die portion to a lesser diameter at a bottom surface of said second die for forming the soap body bottom surface, whereby soap material is forced directly upwardly toward the adapter flange thereby securely obturating the flange against the first die.