How to avoid trashing the leftover pieces of bathroom soap!

I knew someone that put the leftover pieces in an old stocking (and tied it tight I think) so they could use in a similar fashion to a normal bar of soap.

Andrew

switch to body wash so you don't have that problem ...

however, growing up my dad just pushed the small sliver into the new bar... it work pretty well

Come on, use your head. Ebay. :laughing:

peace

Wow. There really is another person as cheap (or peculiar) as me. What I have done is wrap a handful of soap chips in some plastic wrap and twist it shut like a bag. I then put that into a little plastic cup, and put that in the microwave. Now very slowly heat it. I mean really slow, or if you use high power like only long enough (<5 sec) to soften it. Too much and it bubbles out wrecking the little bag. When soft just squeeze in your hand or push into the plastic cup to mold it. Probably warming in an oven would work just as well, but remember the plastic wrap or it won't come out of the cup easy.

I've been doing this for awhile with soap chips from the shower. My wife just shakes her head.

Geoff

Put a bunch of them into the blender with a bit of water until it becomes the consistency of liquid soap, then pour it in a soap dispenser.

I use the pieces until they're too small to hold anymore. Then I either lose them in the shower or just wash them down the drain.

When the piece gets small and thin, mold it to the new bar. It will hold to the new bar and get used. I've had good success with it.

There is an inexpensive synthetic fabric pronounced TOOL (like a toolbox). I don't have any idea how to spell it. Cheap bath scrubbers are often made out of it. It's like a plastic netting. Just get one of those scrubbers for less than a dollar at Wallgreens, take it apart and make a small sack (2x3" with a drawstring.)

Put some of your little pieces of soap inside and tie the top shut. Then wash with it as though it were a bar of soap. It's what they make scrubbers out of, anyway. Since it's a synthetic material it will just dry out between uses -- instead of getting moldy or smelly.

I just squeeze the pieces into a ball or add them to the next bar and use them. Then again, I only use Ivory (I'm allergic to anything with fragrance) which is pretty easy to do that with, especially when wet. Most deodorant soaps are somewhat harder to squeeze together. That being said, for me a bar of soap is pretty small before it's unusable (around the half inch size-usually multiple pieces from the same bar).

While I do not have an exact answer, I will say that is one of the reasons which prompted me to switch over to a body wash.

If you use same type of soap (brand,type/flavour) for lets say 2 - 3 times.. what i would normally do is stick older one over the new one... nothing is wasted... and when it's time to switch soap to different type, some times i throw down the drain or i enjoy 'coktail' for a few days

nystrpr said:

When the piece gets small and thin, mold it to the new bar. It will hold to the new bar and get used. I've had good success with it.

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Yep. Wait until the end of your shower so both are wet and soft, mold the small piece onto the new bar. After it drys out it should be stuck on there well enough to stay put.

-john

When I was a child I saw a gadget at my grandmother's house that consisted of a small wire basket with a door mounted on a wooden handle. I asked her what it was and she said they put leftover soap pieces in there. They could then shake it in the water when washing dishes or clothes. She raised her family during the great depression and had many ways to stretch a dollar.

I guess this wouldn't work too well for using deodorant soap in the shower.

I've been into bar incorporating for years.

Push em into a empty liquid soap dispenser and fill with water. Now you have a hand soap that you can leave next to the sink.

luxlover said:

Does one have to heat up the pieces in order for them to be soft enough to combine with another piece and eventually become a big piece?

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luxlover said:

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Not with Ivory, but it might help with typical deodorant soaps.

I am working on your long pm, Joe. Sit tight, but hang loose!

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No problem. I'll clear out some older PMs to make room.

What I do is save several of the smal pieces of soap and put them in one of those plastic soap dishes (used for travel). Once I have 4 or 5 pieces left over, I put some water in the soap dish and let the small left over pieces to soak till the next day. Then when I use the shower the next day, I take the small left over pieces of soap out of the dish of water. They are pretty soft by then, and just squeeze them together into one bar. The bar will harden if you let it sit out of the water till the following day, so it will then have the same consistency as a new bar.

soap into warm water...leave overnight until dissolved ...by tomorrow morning you've got a solution that kills ants faster than poison