The SoapStandle is a small simple device that affixes to a bar of soap via small points that go into one side of the bar, creating a platform on which the soap is elevated. Since air can circulate 360° around the soap when it’s not being used, it dries, thus inhibiting the ‘goo’ that normally accumulates when you set a bar down.

THREE KEY BENEFITS

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SOLVES SOAP "GOO"

GOO won’t form on the soap, in turn, not on your counter, soap dish, bath/shower ledge, or in your hand.

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ERGONOMIC

Acts as a "handle" so soap doesn’t slip out of your hand.

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SAVES MONEY

Soap lasts longer so no excess is going down the drain.

LEAVE THE LIQUID SOAP

“Avoiding soap goo" is the single biggest reason people give for buying liquid soap for home use. If ‘goo’ is eliminated, bar soap becomes viable for many people. This can improve both personal health and the larger world.

Personal Health
Other than eating, your body primarily acquires nutrients transdermally. Skin is your largest organ— 22 sq. ft on average, and 60% of the substances you put on it are eventually absorbed into the bloodstream. This semi- permeable membrane allows us to absorb vitamins and minerals, but unfortunately, it absorbs harmful chemicals, too.

"Use bar soap. An old-fashioned bar of soap should be your go-to in the shower or the bathroom sink. Antibacterial soaps and body washes generally contain endocrine- disrupting chemicals which disrupt hormone levels—including testosterone—and boost your risk of diabetes, weight gain, and cancer. Besides, 'there’s zero proof synthetics clean any better than regular soap.’ " THE WEEK, 11/21/14, p.34.

Environmental
There are a lot of articles outlining the train wreck nature of liquid soap, but Bill Chameides (Dean of Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment from 2007 to 2014 and currently Professor Emeritus at Duke) sums it up pretty well* (click here)

A Summary of the Environmental considerations of liquid soap v. bar soap from the article cited above

Bar soap has a lower environmental impact than liquid soap re: carbon footprint, eco-toxicity, ozone depletion potential, and eutrophication potential.
Liquid soap requires 5x more energy for raw material production and 20x more energy for packaging production.
Per wash, liquid soap is expensive— about 10x more expensive than bar soap.
Wasteful: on a per-wash basis consumers use more than six times the amount of liquid soap (by weight) than bar soap.— on a typical visit to the sink, we use 7x more liquid soap (2.3 grams) than bar soap (0.35 grams)— meaning more chemical feedstocks and more processing.
Liquid soap containers add up to five million pounds of plastic trash each year.

 

Such a small, simple thing can lead to so many good results.

 

 

The SoapStandle innovation... U.S. Patent No. 9,307,870.