I have a self created routine which involves, yes a bar of soap. Recently the soap has been sorta melting and getting sticky (and why couldn't it be sticky in the shower when you actually need to hold it). But any ways, I need some advice on how to stop it from melting. Is there anything that I could put it in to preserve it? Thanks, Drew

No I am sorry the one thing man has never produced is a device specifically designed with soap saving as it's primary function. My advice is to keep it away from heat and moisture.

So try vacuum sealing it and refrigerating it. If you don't have a vacuum sealer (like me) just suck the air out of a sandwich bag and taste the soapy goodness.

Also, I REALLY want to see your routine, it sounds AWESOME. It's soap, how could it not be.

freeze it?

Do you need to use the soap? What i mean is, would it be possible to do the effect with a piece of plaster or something that is made to look like soap? Perhaps you could do a mold and remake your gimmick in a more "weather" resistant substance.

wax maybe?

I was actually thinking that could be an option. Do you know of any type of plaster that would look like legitimate soap?

I saw an effect with soap in my trusty Apocalypse books. It's called "A 'Clean' Trick." (I swear, I'm going to plug those books until somebody listens to me and actually buys them. Then they'll thank me! )

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. Twice, I tried making a plaster soap but it proved itself too hard (at least for me). I now took cling wrap and wrapped it around it and taped it from the back. It seems to work and shouldn't get sticky.
Thanks, Drew

Can't you just get another bar of soap?

I could but I'd rather have a permanent solution rather than a new bar that after a month would go "bad".

Try candle wax or beeswax instead of plaster.

Spray it was a clear matte finish. You will be touching the coating not the soap, so therefore it won't melt.

Heat will still be transfered to it and itll melt. Youd need a thicker coat of wax or something to keep it preserved.

Could try dipping it in parrifin wax (canning wax).

I have a question. Why is the "soap" itself important to the routine if the material it's made of is not?

It's because it's a little gag routine using a bar of soap as a "dove". get it "dove" soap? So the soap is being used as a physical pun and not being used for it's (scientific) properties.
Drew
PS. Please nobody copy.