Hotel soap - That's why it's so popular!

Hotel Soap – Smells Especially Good and Often Taken Home. Is It Allowed?

Hotel soap, shower gel, shampoo, and other small items are often taken from the hotel room. Why is hotel soap so popular among guests? What types of hotel soap are there and is it okay to take them?

Hotel Soaps – Disposable Soap, Liquid Soap, and Luxury Hotel Soap

There are many different types of hotel soaps, usually organized in series. A popular series is the hotel soap Hydro Basics. This series includes various options such as liquid soap in different sized bottles, small solid soaps in pleated or stretch foil with weights of 25g or 50g, and wall dispensers popular in hotels, available in press + wash or Smart Care System.

Most hotel soap series come in the following packaging sizes and types:

• Liquids in 30ml bottles
• Liquids in 60ml bottles
• Liquids in 250ml bottles
• Liquids in 300ml press + wash
• Liquids in 300ml Smart Care System
• Soap in pleated foil 25g
• Soap in stretch foil 50g

Additionally, upscale luxury hotels use the prestige of well-known fashion and lifestyle brands to emphasize their class. Therefore, you often find soaps from Rerum Natura, BVLGARI, THE WHITE COMPANY, or HERMÈS in luxury hotels. Bogner hotel soap comes in 30ml and 50ml tubes with shower gel, shampoo, conditioner, body lotion, and hand cream.

Ordering Hotel Soaps for Home – Online or in the Hotel Shop

As hotel soaps and care products gain popularity among guests and it becomes more common for guests to take these products from the hotel room, hotels have responded. Many hotels now offer these products for purchase in the lobby hotel shop or for delivery to your home. Reasons for buying hotel soap vary. Often, guests fall in love with the scent, consistency, or great effect of the products. Sometimes, they also want to bring home vacation memories.

Sustainable and Recyclable Hotel Soaps

Sustainability and recyclable packaging are becoming increasingly important for hotel cosmetics and soaps. Hotels are paying more attention to reducing the amount of waste and plastic, and offering soap and care products made from ecological raw materials.

FAIR CosmEthics is a good example. The innovative care series Fair CosmEthics supports fair trade principles with the use of Fairtrade-certified cane sugar and Brazil nut oil. This series carries the Fairtrade seal, ensuring the promotion of modern and sustainable farming methods, fair compensation for raw materials, and premiums for social projects. Additionally, the initiative supports the improvement of working and living conditions for all suppliers involved in the product.

Another excellent example of fair and sustainable hotel cosmetics is Hej Organic. The 100% vegan products, made exclusively with natural ingredients, are of plant origin. They completely avoid PEG, SLS, or parabens, as well as synthetic colors and fragrances, paraffins, silicones, and mineral oil. The soap is offered to hotel guests in pump dispensers, which can be refilled by housekeeping.

Packing Your Bag, Soap Included – Can You Take Hotel Soaps?

The hotel soap is quickly packed. Many guests see these as disposable products and think that the opened soap will be discarded anyway, so it often ends up in the guest's suitcase. The German Hotel Association (IHA) estimates that hotel owners suffer annual damages in the millions due to the theft of items from hotel rooms. Hotel soap surely plays only a small part in this, as stolen items also include scented soaps and exclusive shampoos, as well as pillows, bed linens, TVs, and even entire mattresses. However, this is no free pass to take the hotel soap. Generally, nothing should be taken from hotel rooms. This also applies to used hotel soap. Hotel soaps and care products are intended for use in the room, but that does not mean you can take them with you. Soaps, shampoos, and creams are part of the hotel amenities and are intended for use during your stay.