Thread: Too Much Soap?u

When acquisition disorder hits and you just have to buy every soap/cream there is... how do you store them? What are the downsides to owning multitudes of soaps? Or Is there even a downside?

I’m not going to lie, soaps are my weakness. I love em all! And when I got started in wet shaving, the acquisition disorder (AD) gradually grew to epic proportions for me. I started to find soaps I forgot buying lol. I vowed to use what I had until that time when I no longer had a single soap.

It took years, even with giving some away, but eventually they dwindled and this year I finally started to buy more, vowing to never again have more than 7.

But why?

Well I was/am a firm believer that the soaps began to lose thier scents over time. And if you read anything on soap making which I’m prone to do, you’ll know that indeed, soaps do lose scent with time. But ours are often sealed in a can so, it could take a while? Does it take a while? I didn’t think so but...

Of course another problem that anyone with a few soaps will attest to is, they shrink!




And that’s never good! So for the love of the soap, I vowed that 7 is healthy, 8 and above isn’t. But then tonight I found this:




It’s a mentholated soap! I put it away some fall ago it seems, and it just reared it’s ugly head. I have no idea who the vendor is anymore, or when I bought it. 6 years ago? I do remember getting it for the heat of summer.

Anyway, the first pic is it all shriveled up, but I took my brush to it tonight, and made a lather! The scent does seem to have lessoned, and the menthol has dissipated, but it’s still good.

The aftershave splash has dissipated a bit too, unless I’ve become more used to menthol. But all said and done, between the two, my face feels great.


So the question is, how long does a soap keep up it’s performance including scent? Do you guys have any tricks for keeping it “freash?”

What’s the scoop on long-term soap hoarding? Do you do it?