With simple-to-use shrink wrap soap bands, you can easily provide a professional finish for your soap without investing in a heat tunnel. Our Shrink Wrap bands shrink down with the application of heat from a heat gun. Although a hair dryer will work, it won’t achieve the smooth, fully shrunken wrap results. Best of all, these shrink wrap bands have a perforated easy-open strip for ease of use when your customer gets their soap home.
Directions: Slide the soap into the shrink wrap so the perforated plastic is on the long edge of the soap (the part that you would tear to open). I like to start on on the front side of the soap. Apply the heat until it starts to shrink. It may look funny at first but once you apply heat to all of the sides and ends you’ll see it starting to come together. I like to do the ends last for the finishing touch.
Dimensions: 3 15/16″ x 3 7/16″ (opens on this side). Tear strip runs the 3 15/16″ length.
Tip: If you have small soap, just cut the Shrink Wrap Band in half to fit smaller bars easily. We like to do this for sample soaps.
Voila! Professionally wrapped bar of Rosemary Cold Process Soap. It’s super easy to do and the soap looks super professional to boot.
Is there any way to do this with bath bombs? Or is there another way you suggest to wrap them instead? Thanks!
I use regular cellophane from the craft store to wrap my m&p soaps. I was worried about melting with the shrink wrap and you need a heat gun.. So far the cellophane has worked fine, you just need a sharp scissor, but can cut pieces to size. I get comments at shows on how nice they look. I have a tray of half wrapped labeled soaps as scent testers. Between shows, I store the wrapped soaps in zip lock bags. Was just wondering if anyone else does this, and will using the cellophane damage the soaps in any way?
Thanks,
Marie
Hi Marie!
I am so happy to hear that you have found a way to wrap your M&P soaps that works for you. We haven’t used cellophane too often as the soap can sometimes move in the bag and leave drag marks on it, but it’s totally okay to use for your M&P soaps as long as it is airtight — you wouldn’t want your soaps to sweat. Thanks for sharing with us and if you get any pictures of your soaps, we’d love to see them. You can share them with us on Bramble Berry’s Facebook page. =)
Happy Soaping!
-Becky with Bramble Berry
https://www.facebook.com/BrambleBerry
Hi Becky,
Thanks for your reply. I agree about the drag marks, but this only seems to happen occasionally on very raised designs rather than the flatter bars. So I try not to handle these much. I like the versatility of being able to cut to size. I also wrap them tightly so there’s not much movement and seal with mailing tape. Living in Nevada helps, its dry as a bone here! I’ll try to get some photos on the Brambleberry FB page.
Thanks again, and this blog is so helpful!
Good morning, Marie!
Being in a dry climate definitely helps keep your soaps from sweating! We’ll keep our eyes open for your soaps. =)
-Becky with Bramble Berry
P.S. If you haven’t already checked out these other soapy resources, I think you’d have such a fun time looking them over:
Soap Queen TV: http://www.youtube.com/user/soapqueentv
Teach Soap Forums: http://www.teachsoap.com/forum/
When I seal my M&P soap with plastic wrap, I find that overtime the plastic wrap loosens and wrinkles up. So repackaging is a must.
Can I use the Brambleberry Shrink Wrap bands on M&P soap, if it is completely closed on all sides?
Hi Carla!
Absolutely! As long as the ends are 100% closed up and they are airtight, there shouldn’t be any problems with using them on your M&P soaps. Keep us updated on how they turn out. =)
-Becky with Bramble Berry
Thanks Becky, will keep you updated. I like the convenience of shopping and getting everything from Brambleberry. Please put in a request for shrink wrap tubing, this way we can cut to length.
Good morning, Carla!
Thanks for the suggestion, I will definitely pass it onto our Product Development Team. If you get any pictures of your soapy packaging, we’d love to see how it turned out. You can share photos with us on Bramble Berry’s Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/BrambleBerry
-Becky with Bramble Berry
Hi, can you tell me the dimensions of the shrink wrap bands in centimeters?? Thank you again
Hi Giovanna!
The shrink wrap bands are 10 centimeters by 8.73 centimeters and are perfect to wrap your cold process soaps in.
Shrink Wrap Soap Bands: https://www.brambleberry.com/Shrink-Wrap-Soap-Bands-250-wraps-P4975.aspx
I hope this helps! =)
-Becky with Bramble Berry
I have read that it is not good to wrap or seal cp soaps in plastic. However, my bars are textured on top and I have been using Costco’s plastic wrap as it really clings and works great for me. Am I creating an issue that is harmful to my soap? Also, after how many weeks is it ok to package the soap?
Thanks so much for this site. I have ordered so much already and am having a blast…this is an addicting hobby! (I may have accidentally sent before finishing the comment…sorry)
Hi Tess!
We don’t suggest wrapping your entire CP bar of soap in plastic, because if you do that, it won’t be able to breathe and can develop DOS (Dreaded Orange Spots). As long as you leave the sides open (like in the photos above), your soap is going to be just fine. We let our CP soaps cure the full 4-6 weeks and let the water evaporate out so that the soap bars don’t shrink after we’ve wrapped them. I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions. =)
-Becky with Bramble Berry
We have large soap bars. Do you know of a place to get shrink wrap bands for large bars. Thanks Brandon
Hi Brandon!
At the current time, we only carry one size in soap wrap bands, but I will pass the message onto our Product Development Team that you would like bigger ones. In the meantime, you should just be able to Google ‘large shrink-wrap bands’ and come up with a few different options. 🙂
Shrink Wrap Soap Bands: https://www.brambleberry.com/Shrink-Wrap-Soap-Bands-250-wraps-P4975.aspx
-Becky with Bramble Berry
I was so excited to get my shrink wrap bands today for my cp soaps but unfortunately they don’t fit my soaps. Based on the dimensions that were given, they should have been perfect for my soaps but they don’t completely go around them. So now I have 249 shrink wrap bands and have no use for them 🙁
Would these bands fit around soaps made with Brambleberry’s Vertical mold?
I just double checked and it looks like the dimensions are correct online.
They do fit soap made in the vertical mold, but the thickness of the bar does matter. I wonder if this is the issue?
For instance, The Cherry Blossom Vertical Mold color block soap (blog tutorial – so cute!) was cut with the multi-bar cutter.
These bars are too thick to fit the shrink wrap bands, even after curing for 3-4 months.
Dimensions of the Cherry Blossom bar: 3-7/16″ x 2-7/16″ x a touch over 1″ thick. ( A touch too much)
I hope this helps! Let me know if it doesn’t or if you keep finding issues with dimensions. =)
Hi there! What is the best way to wrap M&P soap of all different shapes, can you help me?
Have you seen the packaging episode of SoapQueen.TV? http://youtu.be/lD4bJgtaHMg That should give you some great ideas! =)
Thanks! Exactly what I need to wrap my cp soap.
Can you use the bands successfully with M & P soaps or do they need to be fully sealed?
Thanks for another great tutorial too 🙂
I’m pretty sure you want to fully wrap MP soap. Otherwise, you could get moisture beads accumulating on the soap.
@Mary. M&P needs to be fully sealed or the exposed part will sweat! =)
This particular shrink wrapping technique is best for cold process soap. Here’s a great tutorial for packaging melt and pour soap http://www.youtube.com/user/soapqueentv#p/u/34/lD4bJgtaHMg
Courtney from Bramble Berry
Thanks everyone. I thought that was the case but you never know for sure unless you ask!
Thanks for the great link Courtney 🙂