Monday, March 28, 2011

How to Use a Bar of Real Soap - A tutorial

OK so you now have a bar of real soap, ordered it with your amount of scrubbiness... now what?

Well the easy answer is go to the shower, but after so many people using liquid cleaners for so long, well a primer in soap use can't hurt.

First thing to know, letting your new artisan soap sit in water is bad.  It will become mushy and not last long at all, so unless using it, keep it dry (letting it air dry in a soap dish without standing water is perfectly fine, put away the blow drier). 

My technique is to use a bath scrubbie (the thing that looks like netting wadded into a knot, that they sell for liquid cleaners).  I take my bath scrubbie, wet that and then swipe it a few times over my soap bar.  Place soap out of the water and smush the scrubbie a few times for lather. 

Really that's the whole secret, no more flipping a bottle over and shaking out the cleanser, no more squinting to read if it's shampoo, conditioner or body wash in the bottle (I got that wrong plenty of times.)  Use the scubbie swipe 3-5 times and squish for bubbles.

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