How to Make Your High Thyme FARMacy Handmade Soap Last Longer

We Want You to Get the Most Out of Your High Thyme FARMacy Handmade Soaps, So Here are Some Simple Steps You Can Take to Prolong the Life of Your Bar(s):

Keep Your Soap Out of the Water.

Of course your soap has to be wet to use it, but don’t store it in a place where it stays wet during your shower. Nothing will make your soap disintegrate faster than keeping it wet. Water breaks down the consistency of the soap and makes it necessary to replace your soap much more frequently. Avoid storing your soap in a place that is constantly in contact with water, like in the direct stream of the shower.

Let Your Soap Air Dry Between Uses.

After your shower, make sure your soap is in a place where it can fully dry before you use it again. Allowing the air to dry out its moisture will make a bar of soap harder (and therefore less likely to crumble), so that it lasts longer. The more time your soap spends completely dry, the longer it will last.

*The more people who use a bar of soap, the faster it will need to be replaced. More users mean less time between showers and more time that the soap will spend wet.

Store Your Soap in a Proper Soap Dish.

Don’t store your soap on a ledge in the tub or shower directly in the water stream. You should store your soap in a soap dish that allows air flow under the soap, as well as over it, so it will dry out by the time you shower again. A soap dish with a ridge-style design, or a soap saver with raised pegs should keep your soap elevated enough to dry out before your next wash. Our Handcrafted Solid Poplar Wood Boardwalk Soap Dishes are the perfect soap accessory to keep your soap dry - it has minimal surface area to curtail the sticking of the soap. The wide angled channels allow the water to quickly drain from the soap, extending the life of your soap.

Save Your Soap Scraps & Store Smaller Soap Pieces in a Soap-Saving Pouch.

When you’ve washed your way down to a tiny sliver of soap that you can no longer hold for a good lather, you can press the sliver onto a new bar when it’s wet, then let them dry a bit – it’ll stick, and there’s no waste! Better yet, you can collect your soap scraps into one of our Eco-Friendly Natural Exfoliating Sisal Soap Sacks. Our Soap Sacks work to contain the soap pieces for reuse, and it operates as a type of exfoliating washcloth that you can use to wash yourself with the soap remnants inside.

Use a Shower Sponge, Bath Pouf, Washcloth, or Loofah to Lather Your Soap.

Believe it or not, your hands are terrible at lathering a bar of soap. You roll it in your hands or rub it on your body, but all that does is remove more and more soap from the bar. You waste a lot of soap that way. Skin is less able to produce and retain lather from soap than other materials. If you use a sponge, pouf, washcloth, or loofah instead, the whole process will use less soap overall because the washcloth will create more lather and it the suds it creates will go farther in cleaning your body than using your hands.

Cut Your Soap Bars in Half.

Cut your soap bars into halves, or even thirds, if possible. Smaller bars of soap will last longer because you are taking smaller pieces into the shower with you each time. This means that only the smaller piece gets wet during each shower, so the other pieces can remain dry the entire time until you are ready to use them. It’s the same concept as rotating different bars.

Rotate Different Bars of Soap.

If you have trouble keeping your bars dry between daily showers, try rotating between more than one soap bar; use one for a week or so, then let it dry out while you start on the second soap bar for a week or so. The extra time between uses will allow your soap to completely dry out and re-harden before you start using it again.