How to Take care of your bar?
1. Keep them out of the water stream.
You must 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 need to give them 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 them and get a bit of airflow on all sides of the bar.
Even when they’re made of uncoated wood, these dishes are the MVP. The best dishes are zebra wood soap dishes! Zebra wood is a dense, heavy wood that’s highly water resistant, making it even more perfect for a shower ledge.
Anywhere you’ve got a bar of soap in your house, make sure it’s got a wooden soap dish keeping it dry.
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. The soap gathers in the washboard surface, you’re going to lose some of that airflow and drainage space that’s so important for keeping your soaps in tip-top shape.
So, if you start to notice some soapy buildup on your soap dish, take a few minutes to clean it off. I like to use a pot scraper to scrape the extra soap off the dish and add those bits to my soap bag so I can get as much use out of the whole bar as possible.
Then, I’ll rinse the soap dish in warm water, wipe it down with adishcloth and leave it out to dry. This is why I typically recommend getting two soap dishes, so you always have one clean and one dry to swap out.
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 bars of soap, 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:
A. The bag holds a bar of soap and acts like 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!
B. 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.
C. 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 going to be one of your best accessories. We provide a free soap saver bag with your first purchase.
5. When you’re traveling, don’t store your soaps in a travel tin.
Shampoo bars, conditioner bars and all other soap bars are the absolute best things for travel, you don’t have any liquid to worry about the 3oz rule, and since you can take the full bar, you don’t have to worry about running out of a travel-size bottle on your trip.
But a super easy trap to fall into is storing your soap bars in your travel soap tin.
Travel soap tins don’t have any drainage, so any water they get in them is just going to sit there, which is kind of the opposite of our #1 rule - keep the soap bars dry.
If staying in a hotel, you can flip the lid of the travel tin upside down and use it as a makeshift soap dish.
If you are staying outdoors, and you don’t have a space you can leave all of your soaps out to dry the whole time, always make sure the tin is dry before putting the soap back in it, and as much as possible keep the tin open to let some airflow through.
Then, as soon as you get home, unpack your soap bars. First thing to remove is your soap bars and let them dry.
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