Bar soap packaging

Bar soap shapes have been classified into two main types and four categories or a total of eight possible variations. Bar soap packages were divided into mass market and specialty types each in single and multipack variations and in turn, each category having different styles. An update summary of bar soap transfers, soap wrappers, and soap cartoners completes the description. Finally, for the present and immediate future, one can assume that high speed lines will gain steady acceptance as the new packaging machines become more popular. Specialty soap packaging machines should be made faster and new models are much needed since hand wrapping or manual and semi-automatic machines are the norm today. New wrapping materials, foam polypropylene, pearlescent coated papers, foil laminates will be used more, and new cartons with special protective inner coatings will be offered more widely. Very close cooperation and development work between the finishing line supplier (specifically the soap press supplier), the packaging machine, and packaging material suppliers and the customer should increase. This long overdue cooperation has been seen lately and more of it will play a key role to an active and progressive bar soap industry.