Using up old soap

ChocClare

I asked this same question a while ago and someone clever suggested grating it and adding water to make liquid soap which you can then use in a container like "boughten" (as they say in Little House on the Prairie) handwash.
You can also use it to make laundry gloop (replacement for washing powder - can't personally be bothered to do this) and you can also melt it down in an old saucepan and remould it into new soaps, perhaps adding a couple of drops of essential oil. HTH.

Anne_Marie_2

I don't use soap. However, can you not put all the bits into a sock or some other thing, sure I read this somewhere - probably on this site! Idea is to wash your hands using the soap filled sock.

Pink.

Is this the thread you were thinking of ChocClare?

Using up old soap

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student100

Um... throw them away...! A bar of soap must cost about 20p, if there is 5% of it left over that you can't manage to use, then for every 10 bars (that's what, several months worth at least...) that's only 10p "wasted". Versus the time spent figuring out what to do with the leftovers... which would probably be better spent doing something more productive and more moneysaving...bake a cake or something.

ChocClare

Pink-winged wrote:

Is this the thread you were thinking of ChocClare?

Using up old soap

Pink

Indeed it is! Well done you for finding it... as you can see, even when I found out what it was, I never got round to making laundry gloop...

Pink.

:rotfl:

That's just the sort of thing I would do.

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black-saturn

If youve got one of those soap holders like what you take on holiday grate the soap into it and pour on a bit of boiling water. Squash it down as far as it will go and then let it dry out. Then you have a whole new bar of soap. I do that with those little soaps you get in hotel rooms.

angelatgraceland

I stick 2 soap oddments together before they get too small. Some are awkward and come apart. I put a rubber band around them for a couple of days until they stick. If they wont behave I chuck them out.

Chipps

Yes, I usually stick the little bit of soap onto the new one, that way there is never a tiny bit of soap hanging around in the bathroom.
Mind you, if DH gets to the little bit of soap before I do he just bungs it in the bin!

Quasar

I stick the bits into an old pop sock or foot cut off from tights and when I have enough I tie a knot at the top and use the soap for various tasks. I don't keep it in sight though!