What is the best way to dry bar soap to make it last longer?
Bernie
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I had a plastic soap dish that would collect water and give me mush soap... one day I got the bright idea to drill a few holes in it. Now the water drains, the soap dries and isn't mushy and it last much, much longer.
One way to make bar soap last longer is also very decorative. You can paste a picture on flat side of a bar. Then just dip that side in and out of melted parafin for a thin layer.
Unwrap soap bars which makes hardens the soap, therefore lasts longer. Makes the bathroom smell good as well!
I like to always keep some soap in a hanging basket in the bathroom. It helps it to dry out and get harder, and it scents the room at the same time. After starting to use soap, it just needs to be elevated to let the air circulate. I use a mesh pocket to use up slivers of soap, and just keep any bars which are well on their way to being used up (but are not yet slivers) on top of that mesh pocket.
I unwrap my toilet soap (Palmolive) and keep it in a basket in my wardrobe to dry out. My Sunlight soap, for cleaning, I unwrap and put in my kitchen window in summer. My kitchen window gets afternoon sun, very hot, so the soap dries out quickly. When I buy new soap, I put it under the "old" soap, so that the driest soap will be used first.
I unwrap the soap bar and put it on a bathroom shelf for a few weeks.
Use the plastic gadgets ( both sides with rigid teeth) that are made to put under legs of furniture (to prevent dents in rugs). Place 1 or, if needed 2 in soap dish and set soap on top.
I punch holes in the paper box the soap comes in. Then I store the boxes in my drawers. It adds a nice 'bath fresh' scent to my linens and things.
The longer you leave your bar soap stored this way, the longer it will last when you use it. There is a downside though; the longer the storage, the less sudsing you will get from the soap.
You might want to rotate soap stored this way about every 3 months. Then you shouldn't notice a difference in the sudsing.
When you buy new bars of soap, take them out of the wrapper and you will notice how soft they are. That is the problem. You can place them in your linen closet for a few months and they will make it smell very fresh and the soap will dry out and become quite hard.
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