Soap Floats

[Guest]

Just was bathing and the soap dish.....AGAIN..........fell into the water. All my homemade soaps and one commercial one floated. The other commercial ones sank. I seem to remember that soap floated when I was a child, but in recent years I had to dig in the bottom of the tub for dropped soap.

Inquiring minds want to know..............why? Why does the homemade soap float? I do know that some of our commercial soap in the house is Dial and it reads as soap, not cleansing bar.

Any scientists out there?

 

[soapbuddy]

My soap floats if I get a lot of air trapped in it.

 

[madpiano]

my soap and all the commercial soaps I tried sink, but commercial soap doesn't melt if you don't retrieve it immediatly, whereas handmade soap tends to melt quite quickly

 

[Zhuliya]

never seen a soap floating!! :shock:

 

[carebear]

ivory soap floats - they whip air into it.

homemade soap shouldn't float unless you've done the same. HP'd or rebatched it? Whipped it?