Teach Soap

I have been making soap for a while now and I keep seeing people talking about salt bars. My question is why would you want to make a salt bar? Does it offer some advantage to the user such as being good for the skin or exfoliating or just because the bar lasts a long time. Most of what I make and sell is geared towards luxuious body bars and such. So am I missing the boat by not making a salt bar to offer my customers?

Welcome to the forum!

Salt bars are great! Surprisingly smooth, lightly exfoliating and a nice change of pace. Here's part of a batch I made using a small amount of annatto seed infused oil for color and Brambleberry's Fresh Mango fo. The trickiest part is cutting them at the right time so I used cavity molds to avoid the possibility of crumbled bars. I think they are a luxury soap so if that's what you offer you might want to consider salt bars for your customers.

Those are beautiful Kate... what a great color and Mango FO sounds like the perfect scent to match that color.

I only just started making salt bars and I love them... they are definitely a luxury item if you can find the right balance of salt and lather.

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- Mickey!

Thanks Mickey! I made it easy on myself by using the recipe that Magic_hands had posted on a salt bar thread last spring. I couldn't resist adding an ounce of castor oil when recalculating for mold size though. Gotta have my bubbles. I've been pleased with the lather. It's pretty rich.

It's the week before Christmas and I'm s-o-o-o into citrus salt bars. Mango, Yuzu, Blood orange and Bergamot. I made a batch with spearmint essential oil, too, but I want citrus. Go figure.

Edited out...double posting.

I love citrus too... do you do anything special to help it stick and keep it from fading?
I have a pink grapefruit I've been wanting to try. Maybe I'll use it in my scrubs.

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- Mickey!

I use a little litsea cubeba eo to anchor citrus. It smells lemony but has a low recommended usage rate so I don't use it as a lemon replacement. Ooooh, your pink grapefruit would be great in a scrub.