# Frozen soap **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 10, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frozen-soap/742653 "2016-01-10T00:40:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mrdeals](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Mrdeals](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrdeals)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frozen-soap/742653/1 "2016-01-10T00:40:18Z")
So one of my employees left a pallet of laundry, dish, and hand soap in the truck last night. Brutally cold, and the entire pallet froze hard as a rock. How screwed am I? Will the soap be fine once it thaws? ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frozen-soap/742653/2 "2016-01-10T00:57:29Z")
> [@Mrdeals](#): > > So one of my employees left a pallet of laundry, dish, and hand soap in the truck last night. Brutally cold, and the entire pallet froze hard as a rock. > > How screwed am I? > Will the soap be fine once it thaws? Not exactly fine. Most liquid soaps are a mixture of various soaps, perfumes, cleaners etc which are well emulsified. When frozen and thawed, I suspect the components will separate. I once left a jug of laundry detergent in a just-above-freezing garage and when warmed up, it had separated into a gloppy mess. No amount of shaking on my part seemed to get things remixed. ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frozen-soap/742653/3 "2016-01-10T11:51:29Z")
Mix thoroughly before use. Yeah the suspension is hard to achieve by hand… but you have to ask yourself, does it blend ? Pour it out to a blender, blend it, pour it back into the bottle. Won’t take long… ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frozen-soap/742653/4 "2016-01-10T11:58:05Z")
I guess that would make a suitable punishment for the miscreant 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frozen-soap/742653/5 "2016-01-10T17:56:39Z")
Did you check whether any bottles burst? That could be “fun” to clean up. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frozen-soap/742653/6 "2016-01-10T19:09:58Z")
> [@Isilder](#): > > Mix thoroughly before use. > > Yeah the suspension is hard to achieve by hand… but you have to ask yourself, does it blend ? > > Pour it out to a blender, blend it, pour it back into the bottle. > Won’t take long… Maybe MrDeals can rent time on a paint mixng machine at Home Depot… ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frozen-soap/742653/7 "2016-01-10T20:20:24Z")
And here I was expecting bars of soap with Elsa on the wrapper… ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frozen-soap/742653/8 "2016-01-11T00:57:32Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > Not exactly fine. Most liquid soaps are a mixture of various soaps, perfumes, cleaners etc which are well emulsified. When frozen and thawed, I suspect the components will separate. Yes, they will. My employer sells many things, among them soap. Every so often a soap shipment freezes in transit during the winter. Typically, you get stuff settling out as a sort of sediment and clouding of the remaining liquid portion of the product. > [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > And here I was expecting bars of soap with Elsa on the wrapper… We sell those, too.