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How to Make the Most with Your Soap
OR....Preventing Meltdown  

To keep your Bare Pause soap in good condition, always keep it on a soap dish that allows air to circulate and dry the soap. Don’t leave it in a puddle.

Buy soap in "2's" or more. Use one bar; keep the other in you undies drawer as a sachet wrapped in scrap of fabric. By doing this, the soap matures and hardens. Keeping it in the underwear drawer or closet means it gets a regular change of air; it’s in the dark; and it’s at a fairly constant temperature.

The longer you can store the soap, the harder it becomes. The harder it becomes means the longer it will last. Soap loses weight as it ages (wouldn’t it be nice if we all could!). The soap is weighed about a week or two after being made and cut. From that point, it will continue to become harder, and the longer it ages, natural evaporation of fragrance, water, and color will occur. Some cut bars lose 10% of their weight in 2 months.

Soap can become rancid if not properly stored, and this is particularly true of milk soaps. Keep it dry, avoid humid conditions, and even a milk soap can last years.

By all means use the soap in the shower; just remember to find a place in the shower that it can be kept without being dripped on. The drip of water from the shower head will melt that bar of soap. Never use a breakable soap dish in the shower.

BP soaps are wrapped in film or cellophane after cutting to protect the soap and to prevent the spread of germs. Remove the wrapper but save the label, so you know which type of bar is your favorite. Be assured your bar of soap has not been "sniffed" by another.