do shampoo bars go bad?

[Bruiser]

Hi there, I used to love my Chagrin Valley poo bars and used them religiously for about a year before straying to conventional shampoo, I have a pretty big stash of bars some opened and about a dozen not opened. I put them in a basket and haven't touched them in about 3 years. I pulled out the basket today because I wanted to start using them again and all the wrappers (basic brown paper bags) are covered in white mold! the bars look and smell fine...
thoughts?
anyone experienced this, are the bars still okay to use? or not risk it?

thanks!

[spidermom]

Don't risk it. Mold goes much deeper than you can see.

[Bruiser]

Don't risk it. Mold goes much deeper than you can see.

AHH I know your right just so gutted about having to throw out my stash

[Obsidian]

Soap shouldn't mold, can you pay a pic? When did goes bad, it gets orange spots that smell bad.

[Bruiser]

Soap shouldn't mold, can you pay a pic? When did goes bad, it gets orange spots that smell bad.

im not sure how to post a picture in the comments.. the soap itself looks and smells the same, it appears that the oil have saturated the paper and mold is on the paper itself.. pretty gross

[Obsidian]

Thing is, lye soap has a high PH, much too high for mold to grow on. This is a subject that comes up periodically in the soaping community. The white bits can be caused by a number of things.
I always use a hosting site for images but maybe if you use the go advanced button to the right, it will have a option to upload? The soaper in me really wants to see what is going on.

[Bruiser]

Thing is, lye soap has a high PH, much too high for mold to grow on. This is a subject that comes up periodically in the soaping community. The white bits can be caused by a number of things.
I always use a hosting site for images but maybe if you use the go advanced button to the right, it will have a option to upload? The soaper in me really wants to see what is going on.

Okay I hope this works
http://s1044.photobucket.com/user/je.../IMG%5D%5B/URL

http://s1044.photobucket.com/user/je.../IMG%5D%5B/URL
http://s1044.photobucket.com/user/je.../IMG%5D%5B/URL

[AZDesertRose]

Okay I hope this works
http://s1044.photobucket.com/user/je.../IMG%5D%5B/URL

http://s1044.photobucket.com/user/je.../IMG%5D%5B/URL
http://s1044.photobucket.com/user/je.../IMG%5D%5B/URL

Something went weird with the coding there, because when I clicked on the links, I actually realized that the URL for each linked image was repeated and there seems to be some weird coding stuff in between? (I was able to delete the excess stuff and actually view the images, but when I initially clicked on each link, I got an error message because of the wonky coding.)

Incidentally, Photobucket has removed the option for linking on a forum to a photo posted there unless you pay for their premium service (or at least, they did that a few months ago, and I'm not sure that enough ruckus has been raised to dissuade them/persuade them to revoke that change to their terms of service). Normally, the easiest way to post a photo is to use the little "framed picture" icon above the post/comment-entry field, and that asks you for a link to the photo. There are some sites (Imgur and PostImage off the top of my head, but I know there are more than just those two) who will still allow you to link to a photo hosted on their sites without you having to pay for premium service.

As for the actual topic, I don't know enough to tell you what's going on with the white gunk on the shampoo bars. I'll defer to Obsidian's greater knowledge of soap-making (and anyone else who, unlike me, knows whereof they speak).

[Obsidian]

I can't view the images. I tried removing the excess code and all I got was the upgrade your account image.
Most people have switched to different hosting sites, I started using tinypic or imgur

[lapushka]

Yep photobucket has gone to hell & beyond.

Try imgur or any other hosting site (I use imgur myself).