What to do with soap

Rupacomp

Someone gave me a soap-related tip the other day, that rubbing a little bit of bar soap on the edge of new shoes/trainers can help stop them rubbing and hurting. I've not tried it yet so cant vouch if it works - has anyone else come across it before? 

Glad

Just bite the bullet and use them as soap until you run out, then go back to your usual 🙂
They get used up not thrown and x number of plastic bottles in the meantime are not bought. It may seem like a small impact but they all add up 🙂

Katiehound

Give away
Where I live people often put things outside their door/ on their wall whatever with a notice 'Free to take'. That way anybody who would like it gets a gift
A couple of weeks ago my friend 'chose' a new candle worth over £30. She was thrilled.

Any one packing shoeboxes (yes, I know it's not Christmas... yet!!) would love the soap as it is one of the essential items on the 'Link to Hope' list - boxes which go to very poor folk in E.Europe (Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Ukraine)

Personally I rarely use soap- just one bar in the kitchen to scrub up with after gardening but this is the house of upcycle / donate/ don't just throw!

Emmia

Katiehound said:

Give away
Where I live people often put things outside their door/ on their wall whatever with a notice 'Free to take'. That way anybody who would like it gets a gift
A couple of weeks ago my friend 'chose' a new candle worth over £30. She was thrilled.

Any one packing shoeboxes (yes, I know it's not Christmas... yet!!) would love the soap as it is one of the essential items on the 'Link to Hope' list - boxes which go to very poor folk in E.Europe (Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Ukraine)

Personally I rarely use soap- just one bar in the kitchen to scrub up with after gardening but this is the house of upcycle / donate/ don't just throw!

Technically that can be seen as fly tipping.

Glad

Emmia said:

Katiehound said:

Give away
Where I live people often put things outside their door/ on their wall whatever with a notice 'Free to take'. That way anybody who would like it gets a gift
A couple of weeks ago my friend 'chose' a new candle worth over £30. She was thrilled.

Any one packing shoeboxes (yes, I know it's not Christmas... yet!!) would love the soap as it is one of the essential items on the 'Link to Hope' list - boxes which go to very poor folk in E.Europe (Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Ukraine)

Personally I rarely use soap- just one bar in the kitchen to scrub up with after gardening but this is the house of upcycle / donate/ don't just throw!

Technically that can be seen as fly tipping.

Have you got a link to anything official that says putting items outside on my own property is seen as fly tipping?
People on my estate do this all the time

elsien

Another vote for grating it and using for things that need hand washing, if you have any. I’ve recently started using soap instead of hand wash because it lasts a lot longer as well. Well drained soap dish is a must though. 

pollypenny

I'm still pondering the objection to soap.  Some can crack and look unsightly, but that takes a good while, anyway. 

They work out cheaper that liquid soap and there's minimal use of plastic. 

Katiehound

Emmia said:

Katiehound said:

Give away
Where I live people often put things outside their door/ on their wall whatever with a notice 'Free to take'. That way anybody who would like it gets a gift
A couple of weeks ago my friend 'chose' a new candle worth over £30. She was thrilled.

Any one packing shoeboxes (yes, I know it's not Christmas... yet!!) would love the soap as it is one of the essential items on the 'Link to Hope' list - boxes which go to very poor folk in E.Europe (Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Ukraine)

Personally I rarely use soap- just one bar in the kitchen to scrub up with after gardening but this is the house of upcycle / donate/ don't just throw!

Technically that can be seen as fly tipping.

On your own property (or on the curtilage if you want local council speak)
I don't think so!

Spoonie_Turtle

With the laundry washing suggestions, be careful if you have hard water - it can leave a scum which you really don't want in your washing machine.  For hand washing laundry it might be okay.


In terms of the objections, of course I don't know OP's situation but soap is alkaline and skin is acidic (including scalp).  Normal skin can often cope with it but sensitive skin often can't - the development of modern detergents wasn't just a money-making, environment-destroying scam   Many people do just fine with soap, even with our hard water, but many others don't.  For equivalent alternatives to hand wash, shampoo, etc. you'd need a syndet bar rather than a soap bar which unfortunately is more expensive and less easily produced than soap.

maman

It can work for hand washing delicate items like underwear without even bothering to grate it.

We're fortunate in that someone in my road collects for the food bank but it seems OP doesn't go to the supermarket and doesn't want to ask friends to drop them off. That's a shame as ours frequently need toiletries. ☹️