Our advice for longer lasting freshness.
Have you ever opened up your soap dish only to find a soggy, mushy mess? Or been disappointed to find your favorite soap bar is now a weird shape?
Most of us have experienced the frustration of a bar of soap that doesn’t last. But with a few simple tips, you can extend the life of your soap and enjoy it for longer.
Here are some helpful hints for storing bar soap:
How to Store Bar Soap When in Use
Store Bar Soap in a Dry Place
Nothing makes your bars dematerialize faster than exposing it to water or a wet surface. When water soaks in, it becomes soggy and damages its essence.
Keep your bars away from places prone to moisture. Like areas around your shower head, pipes, or water dispensers to prevent water from splattering on it.
Keep Bar Soap in a Cool Place
Storing in a hot environment or exposing it to heat will melt it and leave it liquified, contradicting its entire purpose.
Leave your bars to air dry after a hot shower to take out moisture accumulated from the steam. Also, avoid storing your soap bar close to heat vents or electronics that emit or conduct heat.
Keep Your Bar Soap Away from Direct Contact With the Sun
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In addition to keeping your bar soap in a cool place, avoid exposing it to direct sunlight. UV rays from the sun will disintegrate it, change its color and lessen the fragrance over time.
Use a Soap dish With Drainage
The best way to store your bar soap on a counter is to use a soap dish with drainage in the bottom. This drainage strain any form of moisture from your bar soap. Soap dishes without drainage keep in water, making it harder for your soap to dry between uses. While some soap dishes come in fancy plastic, if they are without a drain, your bar soap will dematerialize and become soggy and unsightly.
Don’t keep Bar Soap on a Metallic Surface
Metal causes soap to oxidize, and the oxidization can result in dreaded orange spots ( DOS) that appear in various sizes or spots and cause your bar soap to turn rancid.
Rancidity produces an unpleasant odor, at which point you’ll want to throw it away.
Let Soap Air dry After Each Use
After taking your shower, doing your laundry, or even washing those dishes with your bar soap, allow it to air dry. Doing this stretches the period of its use as it won’t always get soggy and ultimately diminish.
Cut Bar Soap into Smaller Sizes and Store it in a Soap Saver Pouch
Cutting your bar soap into smaller pieces and keeping it in a soap saver pouch lowers its chances of getting wet.
Thus, as you use a smaller piece each time, only that smaller piece becomes moist, while the rest stays dry and ready to be used the next time.
A soap saver pouch is usually made with porous fabric that makes bar soap aerate. However, the Soap saver pouch should be kept in a cool and dry place.
Cure Homemade Bar Soap for a Longer Period
Curing is the process in soap making in which water evaporates and enables the bar of soap and its ingredients to harden more completely so that it will last longer once you start using it.
To do this, let your soap air dry for 6 to 8 weeks. Remember, we don’t need sunlight!
How to Store Bar Soap Long Term
Remember, the best way to store your bar soap when you’re not using it is in a cool and dry place from direct sunlight. It could be a store room, garage, the shelf in the laundry, wherever you consider safe. But where do you “actually” keep bars of soap that are not in use?
Don’t Store your Bar Soap close to Things with a Strong Smell
For example, if you store your bars in the kitchen, you don’t want to keep it beside your garlic or Onion. The smell from these things can permeate your soap over time.
It is advisable to store your soap near things with great fragrance or a similar scent.
Plastic Box
A plastic box is a great place to store your bar soap because they are durable and slightly waterproof. Just ensure they have a covered seal and keep proper ventilation in check.
To do this, slightly open the covered seal of the plastic box or poke small holes around the plastic box for air.
Wooden Box
Wooden boxes are efficient for storing soaps as long as there is a free flow of air for ventilation.
Cardboard or Shoe Boxes
Storing your bar soap can be as simple as keeping it in shoe boxes, but you must watch out for wet surfaces as these kinds of boxes are not as durable as plastic or wooden boxes and are absorptive to liquid. You can poke holes or open the cover slightly for air.
Decorative Glass Jar
In my opinion, the best way to store your bar soap before you use it is in a decorative glass jar! Glass jars are impermeable. After putting your bars in them, you can place your glass jar on top of your bathroom countertops. However, be careful when using a glass jar as it can fall or slip, causing it to break and lead to injury.
Arrange Unused Bars of soaps on a shelf or Drawer
Create some fun time for yourself and keep safe your bar soap by arranging it on a shelf or drawer. You can arrange them according to their different shapes, colors, or scents to make things more interesting! Shelves or drawers provide a safe and dry atmosphere for your unused bars.
Wrapping up the Best Way to Store Your Bar Soap
We hope these tips help you enjoy your lovely purchases from our Soap Store and keep you coming back for more!
