While our soap will not “go bad”, it’s essential to store it properly to keep it fresh and long-lasting. In this post, we will discuss some essential tips for how to store our goat milk soap so that you get the most out of each bar.
- Keep it dry between uses
Our soap should be kept dry between uses to prevent it from becoming soft and mushy. When the soap sits in water, it dissolves faster. Therefore, it’s important to keep it in a soap dish or a soap saver that allows water to drain away from the soap.
Our Soap Saver Bag is made of natural flax. If you a hang it between uses it helps the soap dry throughly.
- Short Term Storage
To prolong the life of your soap, it’s crucial to store it in a cool, dry place. High humidity or heat can cause the soap to sweat and dissolve more quickly. Do not store the soap, that you are not currently using, open in a bathroom, even for short term storage. The repeated humidity from the showers will shorten the life of the soap.
- Long Term Storage
If you are storing your soap for an extended period, it’s essential to store your soap in a sealed storage container or bag to keep it fresh and to keep it from loosing it’s scent. Here at The Freckled Farm Soap Company, after our soaps have cured, we store them in sealed storage containers. If left out in the open our soap will begin to lose their scent after about six months to a year, however they will stay fresh and maintain their scent for much longer if stored properly. Make sure you separate out different scents so they do not absorb smells from each other.
An easy way to do this is to stack scents in gallon ziplock bags and throw in a silica gel pack or two to keep moisture out. You may want to take the soap out of their labels and label the storage bag instead for the long term storage.
When we announced the closing of our business to friends and family one of the biggest responses to those worried about losing access to our soap is that stocking up for the very long time (at least when it comes to the soap) would be easy because the soaps last for so long. The soaps we are currently using in our shower are 5 years old. In our house we don’t get the perfect soaps that go out to customers. We use Bits and Pieces soaps, mess ups that are not even good enough for Bits and Pieces (like issues with the recipe, not the appearance), test soaps, and discontinued soap. The current batch in our shower is from when we discontinued the topped lavender soap years ago. It sat around forever because the lavender buds on top had turned brown and couldn’t be sent to customers and we didn’t want to deal with the buds in our own shower. They just sat in a container for years, and years, and years. Recently we decided to cut the buds off of them and add them to our personal stash. They were properly stored so even after all of these years they are in good shape. The outside doesn’t smell strong but the scent returns once in use.
- Rotate your stock
It’s always a good idea to rotate your soap stock, especially if you have a collection of different scents and types of soap. It helps to keep your soap collection fresh and fragrant. Organize your soaps so you are using the oldest soaps first. Also, if you use the same scent for too long you begin to become nose blind to it and you won’t notice the smell as much. If you switch it up now and then you will enjoy the scent more when you come back to it later.
So if you want to stock up during this closing you are able to think long term… and because we have made 12,000 bars of soap for our website costumers, and that amount of stock should last us until the end of the year, you can stock up in phases. Just make sure to follow the advice above.