What is the weight per bar of your soaps?

What is the weight per bar of your soaps?

Now THAT is a very good question! Handmade process bar soaps contain a lot of water; about 33% to start. The soap looks kind of like pancake batter at this stage. Once they are hard enough to handle (3 or 4 days later) and cut, they contain about 25% water. Our formula and process handmade palm oil based bar soap is good and ready to use at about 12.5% water content. This takes 4 weeks of curing under ideal circumstances. The curing process allows the soap to finish slowly as it off gasses moisture and expensive scent. The bar will continue to off gas over time, losing an additional 10% +/- for each year of its life.

Our bar soaps weigh 4.2oz (average) when fresh cut. We label them as 3.25oz currently. Naked bars that sat for a year in an open display (a travesty!) weighed in at 3.1 +/- so we now have to label bulk naked soap displays as 3oz!

Another way to look at bar soaps is by size, which does not always reflect the density (number of actual molecules you are actually buying) in the bar. We make ours to the classic 3.25” long by 2.25” wide by 1.25” thick. This size fits most easily into the greatest number of women’s hands. Thing is, as the bar loses water weight it shrinks a little too!

Let’s just call it a 3.25oz and be done!

All the Best,

Soapman