Posted: 6/28/2015 11:10:50 AM EDT
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Fairly prepped but seem to come back to soaps/detergents.
I can make soap if need be, but would rather lay in a variety of soaps. I know some bar soaps don't store so well. But I could seal and store with desiccant, etc.. What routes are people taking? Other soap/detergent products?? Human, cookware, clothes....sand and water yes...... |
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Dial gold bar.
When I had a staph infection several years ago, my doctor recommended Dial gold bar variety soap for its antibacterial qualities to promote healing. I have never heard of soap storing problems. Could you elaborate on your experiences with soap deteriorating or going bad? |
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Cracking breaking up on one hand, another case seemingly OK but turning to a handful of slime first usage. Neither of these were controlled storage. I think sealing in a large Lock-N-Lock at reasonable temps would a vast improvement. Thanks. I've never experienced that and I've used some pretty old soap. My mother has always liked to grab the soap and shampoos when we travel from the hotel bath. My first wedding was in 2000. Last year I remodeled the bathroom and while cleaning out the old vanity, I found soaps and shampoos from the hotel where we had our wedding. They were no doubt brought over by my mother for some odd reason and left in our bathroom. Curiosity killed the cat and I tried them out...still good. We usually have around 20-25 bars of soap in our bathroom closet, with a split between Oil of Olay, Dial gold bar and Dial spring scent. A gold bar lasts around 2 weeks (per person) and I average around 2 showers a day. So figure around 28 showers or baths per bar. Probably more if you were real careful with it. So it wouldn't be hard at all to put back enough soap to take a bath or two a week for several years. The gold bar soap seems to last longer for some reason BTW, so that's an added benefit. |
| I travel a bit as part of my job. I end up staying in hotel rooms typically 1 night each week. I've been taking the soap/shampoo/conditioners they give in the bathroom, home with me each time over the past 2 years. I've built up a pretty sizable amount. They are travel size so perfect for rationing and/or barter. Haven't heard of soaps going bad before. |
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The majority of soap comes with a lot of moisture in it. Note the waxy paper or box the soap usually comes in. If you run searches on pinching pennies, being thrifty, being broke, and other stuff about saving money you will see many folks open up their bars of soap to dry out before using them. A fresh bar of soap that is not dried out will last me x amount of time. A bar of soap I opened up and just let sit on a shelf in the bathroom so it can dry out for a few weeks will usually last 1.5 x or so. I have run into issues where I store enough soap that they changed the bar on me and what I thought I bought for x was really a bit less soap due to way more curve cut in the bottom of the soap bar. I tend to buy safeguard but most basic soaps work fine for me. Put it on sale and ivory or whatever works fine and they all smell a bit different so different air freshners in the bathroom as they air out and dry out. Ivory can crack, just watch how you use it so all pieces stay in washcloth. Safegaurd does not crack much for me. As far as the goo type stuff mentioned, I know full well some of the foo-foo soaps out there don't handle high temps well and I could see some not storing well. Something like safegaurd, good for decades. Fels-naptha or the castile stuff mentioned will also do well and the fels naptha is what I use for my laundery soap anyway. Some folks say fels naptha is too strong for use in the shower, I guess you have to decide for yourself on that. Anyway, run some searches and do some reading on saving money and then search those results on bath soap or something similar. I also tend to have a lot of dawn liquid dish soap and tend to buy the concentrate versions and when I have an empty squeeze bottle half concentrate and half dawn works well for me, I admit I could use less dawn but since I mess with poison ivy in the yard I have now I am happier with more soap since it seems to work better when washing up. Now shampoo can be interesting to store. Let the water evaporate out of that and then see what you have left. |
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Cracking breaking up on one hand, another case seemingly OK but turning to a handful of slime first usage. Neither of these were controlled storage. I think sealing in a large Lock-N-Lock at reasonable temps would a vast improvement. Thanks. I've had some in a 1 gallon zip lock for a couple of years with no issues |
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If you MUST *BUY* soap for a prep - buy ivory. There are numerous other chemistry-related things you can use IVORY for... Quoted:
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For people, Ivory. If you MUST *BUY* soap for a prep - buy ivory. There are numerous other chemistry-related things you can use IVORY for... Like??? |
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About 8 or 9 years ago I bought close to 200 bars of Safeguard soap. It's been on a closet shelf ever since. I'm still using it. It's just like the day I opened the first bar. Hasn't changed a bit.
Have maybe ten bars left. Will buy more, but I'm. Never gonna find a buy one get one with a 35 cent off per bar coupon again. |
I like to keep Lava soap on hand ( for really dirty hands. It seems to last a long time, too. I keep a bar in my bathroom on a homemade soap dish made out of a cool whip container with small slits in the lid. It dries out real nice and the gunk/goo stays on the lid or in the bowl.
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| I think I read here a few years ago that taking most bars of soap out of there packages and let them dry for a couple of hours or so in the summer sun would allow them to be stored indefinitely. It made sense to me since the old timers I grew up around always had a bar of soap at a sink on their porches. Those bars dried up in the summer time and seemed to last a long time. |
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Quoted: Cracking breaking up on one hand, another case seemingly OK but turning to a handful of slime first usage. Neither of these were controlled storage. I think sealing in a large Lock-N-Lock at reasonable temps would a vast improvement. Thanks. - buy soap - open package by poking hole in each bar wrapper - put in ventilated area - use soap, at some point the next bar will be both dry-ish (so it lasts much longer and doesn't liquify) and harder - go back to entire set of soaps, wrap tightly with plastic or put in air-tight container with desiccant. I discovered by accident, that soaps have perfumes and water in them to make them soft. Which is good if you are buying lots of it and have a steady supply. If the bar dries out some, it lasts much longer as in more hand washings from one bar. The trick is not to let it dry out too far, but stop the drying process when it's right. For liquid soaps, I just buy in bulk by the gallon or refills for one of those refillable shower mount boxes, and then fill my hand soap pump bottles with it. Also, for liquids I always add water to them. That way less actual soap goes down the drain in the form of a glob of soap washed off the hands. |