Using up old soap

tina68

just rescued soap from the bathroom bin:rotfl: :T :rotfl: :T

SoScrooge

If you are into sawing, you can just dry the soap and use it as a dressmakers chalk pencil

I used to saw a lot from ready-made patterns, and the dried soap bits were invaluable since they

· make a sharp neat line (as you are using the edge to draw)
· don’t crash like chalk does, and
· are washable.

HTH

Stompa

We used to have a special device for compressing all the little bits together to make a new bar, which I think came from Betterware (or similar) many years ago. Unfortunately, I've lost it!

Doonhamer

Use liquid soaps, get whatever is on BOGOF. No more soap scum.

Spendless

I have a vague recollection of being in guides or something and making a sort of sponge with two circles of sponge,(I even think it might have been 2 fish shapes) sewing them together blanket stitch and then just before you sewed all the way round, putting soap in the middle. It made a sort of soap/sponge all in one.

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Stompa wrote:

We used to have a special device for compressing all the little bits together to make a new bar, which I think came from Betterware (or similar) many years ago. Unfortunately, I've lost it!

Yes I have one of those and they are well worth the money.It's surprising how much soap you can salvage with this.I only use Dove soap and it's arounf 49p a bar so every now and then I have a 'free' bar of Dove.

Stompa

JackieO wrote:

Yes I have one of those and they are well worth the money.It's surprising how much soap you can salvage with this.I only use Dove soap and it's arounf 49p a bar so every now and then I have a 'free' bar of Dove.

I seem to recall that it works best if all the bits are of the same type of soap. Different types tend not to stick together very well.

Calephetos

All my tiny soap pieces go into an old Lush pot (as I've got far too many!) and the resulting mush (because it'll get damp whatever you do) makes a liquid-y handwash/soap. It stays on the sink edge and is quicker to use than normal soap, IMO, as it is already at a consistency to scoop out and rub all over your hands. I'd do more with it, but I'm pretty lazy This way the slimy pieces don't make me feel guilty because I've chucked them, and I get to open a new piece of soap Though, actually we're just using the pots of gloop atm - no more soap to be opened 'til they're used up!

Quincy_3

Put them in the toilet as the lanolin lines the bottom of the toilet and staops any limescale deposits below the water line.

donna73

when we were little i remember my mum having some sort of container that we put the odd bits of soap in & it formed into a new bar.

any ideas anyone? either where i can get such a magical device or how i can use up the bits in OS manner