soap in airing cupboard....

princess_loki

now i know that grandma put the soap into the airing cupboard because it dried out and lasted longer....

many people don't have airing cupboards now (wish i did!). so having just sorted out a gift set which came with 4 bars of soap i have popped the wrapped bars of lavender soap into my chest of drawers.

is there any benefit for doing this other than scent? will soap stop moths?

would be really interested to know!

also... whilst on the same subject grandma had scented drawer liners! maybe it was just because of the scent - i don't know!

happy35

my nan also used to do this i think it just make things smell nice

LJM

i agree my nan has soap stashed everywhere in most drawers and airing cupboard

princess_loki

LJM wrote: »

i agree my nan has soap stashed everywhere in most drawers and airing cupboard

if she is still around please ask her why (i can't ask mine). is it just for the scent or because it dries out or is there some old wives tale?

LJM

i will ask her when i see her next i just took it for granted that it was just one of her quirky little things she does now i want to know lol

meritaten

I think you will find that most of the soap stash was 'Lavender' scented. It does help to keep away moths but is not as effective (but smells better) than camphor! Dried out soap does not lather as well as fresh soap - but it does retain its smell for a long time! and you CAN still use it! just needs hotter water and perseverance in getting it to lather! I have a bar of soap in my underwear drawer which has been there for about five years - when i pick it up I can still smell roses.

Looby_Lou

I think I need my eyes tested, I read the thread title as SOUP in the airing cupboard:eek::rotfl:

LJM

looby lou youve just made me giggle lol

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My old Mum also kept soap in her chest of drawers as she said it help keep the moths at bay and made her underware smell nice.If I ever smell 4711 it reminds me of my Mum.My Dad was a chemist, and used to get lots of sample stuff from travellers who came into his shop that he would bring home for my Mum.He also had a medicine which he made up which as children we called 'The Black Bottle'I t smelt and tasted disgusting and if you said you wern't feeling well in the hope of getting a day off from school out would come this stuff.If you actually had some it seemed to prove that you were genuinely ill but if you recovered fairly quickly off you went to school.It looked like black tar and tasted revolting.But my parents were pretty smart at sorting out whether you really were ill or not.
My Dad had a big cabinet that he kept locked full of chemicals ect and one day my parents had gone into London for the evening to the theatre,my two older brothers were left in charge of me aged around 8.John and Davy decided to play 'scientists' and managed to unlock my Dads cabinet.They mixed up lots of different stuff in a bottle and corked it .Davy shook it and it began to froth up quite violently.He put it on the table, and we all took a few steps away.Just as well we did as the thing exploded covering the room in broken glass and this pink foamy stuf that set like concrete on most of the ceiling.My two brothers had a job sitting down for a week when my Dad found out.
1. They were resposible for looking after me
2. They had touched my Dad's stuff which had been strictly forbidden
3.The stuff never did come out of the ceiling and my Mum was furious.
To this day my brother Davy -who is over 70 now-still remembers the enormous bang both from the explosion and from my Dad when he got home :)
I being the youngest got off scot-free as they didn't think I could have done anything to stop them.Little did they know I was just as keen as the boys to see what they could make from Dad's strangly coloured bottles of 'stuff'
Much more fun the a playstation ,though probably a lot more dangerous .

foxyruby

Hi JackieO
Your story really made me laugh! Nice one!

MrsAtobe

I'm hoping that one of you lovely people can help me out again:).

I was recently given a bar of Pears soap, which my grandma always used to use. I remember one day being really confused as she sent me for a new bar from the airing cupboard. She used to do something to the bar to save waste before she used it. Does anyone have any idea what that was?

The only thing I can think of is filling up the hollow on one side, until the soap was soft, and then remoulding it? And then doing the ssme on the other side, and popping it into the airing cupboard to dry out properly again. Does anyone know what else it could be? Can't ask either my grandma or my mum as neither of them are with us any more.

Thanks for reading, and any suggestions.