Our advice for longer lasting freshness.
The #1 Rule of Soap Bars…
…is to keep them dry.
The more drainage and air flow you can give to your soap bars, the longer they’re going to last you. Keeping your soaps dry will keep them firm, less messy, and easier to use. Remember that #1 rule and you’ve conquered most of the battle.
Okay, on to the care tips!
1. Keep them out of the water stream.
Okay first and foremost – you gotta keep your bars out of your shower water stream. If you can, keep them up high and on the opposite side of your shower from the shower head.
If your soap bars are in the stream of water, or even being splashed with water during your shower, they’re going to melt faster, leave more soapiness on your shower ledge, and honestly just all-around be a less enjoyable experience. So find the driest spot in the shower and make a new home for your bars!
2. Store them on a soap dish with drainage.
Now that your bars are out of the line of water, we gotta give ‘em some room to drain!
Washboard style wooden soap dishes are a soap bar’s best friend. The washboard surface elevates your soap bars so the water can drip off of them, and get a bit of airflow on all sides of the bar.
3. Keep your soap dish clean.
When you’re using a bar of soap for hand washing or washing your dishes with a solid dish soap bar, you may not be able to give your soap bars enough time to fully dry off between uses, since they’re in such a high-touch area.
When that happens, you may end up with a softer bar that leaves some extra soap behind on the dish.
Especially if you’re using one of our wooden soap dishes and the soap gathers in the washboard surface, you’re gonna lose some of that airflow and drainage space that’s so important for keeping your soaps in tip-top shape.
4. Use a soap saver bag.
And speaking of adding the remnant soap to my soap saver bag, this addition to my shower has been a game changer!
Our soap saver bags are made from sisal, an ultra-sustainable natural fiber extracted from the leaves of agave plants. They’re the perfect size for one of our bar soaps, and are a great way to keep a bar of soap lasting as long as possible.
The soap saver bag serves a few different purposes:
- The bag holds a bar of soap, and acts similar to a washcloth. The fibers help the soap suds up better than it would on its own, helping you use less soap per shower, making the bar last longer. Plus, it’s exfoliating!
- The bag helps your soap dry between uses, since it can hang up somewhere out of reach of the water stream, and gets the soap more airflow since it doesn’t have any surfaces touching it.
- When a soap bar gets too small to use on its own, you can toss it in the soap saver bag and keep using it until its totally gone. No more random bits of soaps too small to use that you’re collecting without any way to use.
Basically, if you’re using soap bars in the shower, a sisal soap saver bag is gonna be one of your best accessories.