Do you use your soap bars too quickly? This guide reveals simple six ways to properly store and use your bars, ensuring they last for months.

How Long a Soap Bar Tends to Last

Once you start using them, cold process soap bars will last approximately one to two months in the shower and three to five months at the sink, depending on how frequently you use it. At Camille’s Soap Emporium, we give our bars a cure length time of six weeks.

This ensures that any excess water in our soap evaporates, increasing the hardness of our bars. The harder the bar, the longer it will last when used. If you have ever experienced a soap bar that has gone mushy soon after using it, it likely hasn’t been given a long enough cure.

We’ve come up with six ways to help you make your natural soap bars last longer:

1) Store Your Soap in a Cool, Dry Place

From the moment you get your soap bar, find a place that is cool and dry, such as a drawer, to store it in until you use it. Once in use, make sure you don’t place it directly by the shower in between washes. Even if the water isn’t directly touching it, it will be affected by the humid conditions.

2) Store Your Soap in or on a Soap Saver Bag

Soap saver bags are a natural product made from sisal plant fibers. You can use them to preserve soap in a variety of ways. You can:

• Place your soap on top of the bag and use it like a soap dish
• Hang the soap up in it to dry
• Fill the bag with the small pieces of soap (at the end of using a bar) so that none is wasted

3) Store Your Soap in a Soap Dish

Store your soap in a soap dish with good drainage to help prolong its life. There are a variety of soap dishes out there but after much testing, we have found that dishes that hold up soap vertically have the best drainage. Try something like this roll top bath style soap dish which holds your soap upright, has three drainage points and is very cute!

4) Lessen Soap Bar Exposure to Water in the Shower

Do you hold your soap bar under the shower head for a long period of time while showering? A soap bar is a concentrated product and you only need a little water to produce a great lather. Being mindful of how much water you add to your bar can give it extra life.

5) Cut Up Your Soap Bar

If you use your soap bar at the sink, you may wish to cut it up into smaller pieces – halves or quarters – to help preserve the rest of your soap. You can store the pieces you aren’t using in a dry cool place, such as a drawer.

6) Most Importantly: Purchase Wisely

Buy from a soap maker who ensures that their bars go through a lengthy cure time. Not all handmade soap is made equally and at Camille’s Soap Emporium all our soaps go through a long cure time of six weeks. We use only natural ingredients, oils and butters, the Earth’s clays and essential oils and add NO artificial preservatives. We provide the quality soap, and all you have to do is look after it.