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Care For Your Soap
Since no artificial preservatives or chemical hardeners are added, we recommend that your natural handmade soaps are protected from direct sunlight and kept in a cool, dry location. The natural shelf life of our quality handmade soap is approximately one year. Although most soaps age well and will last much longer than a year, we suggest you take advantage of the fresh ingredients and aromatics. Many soaps will last forever, it seems, as a solid sachet placed in your lingerie drawer, linen closet or dish cupboard.
We recommend placing your herbal soap on a soap deck away from water between each use, to ensure a long lasting bar.
Pine Soap Deck
How To Use Soap!
There was a time when a bar of soap was a most luxurious oddity. Soap might be sent cross-continent as a gift of goodwill from one influential party to another. In the late seventeenth century a German princess received a present of soap from an Italian emissary, accompanied by a detailed description of how it was to be used.
Here, I offer some of my own advice.
How long your soap lasts is determined by the degree to which it is subjected to water. If you hold the soap under the tap, it will not last as long as you may wish. Instead, you should wet your hands, rub them about the dry bar of soap, return the soap to the soap dish, work up a lather, wash, and rinse. Repeat as often as desired. Admittedly, I find indulging my skin directly with the damp soap bar, using several fragrances during a single cleansing treatment, to be of particular delight.
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