What can I do with all these bar soap bits?

Yes. Put them into a tin or some sort of mold and add water. Just let it sit until it melts all the bars and forms one cake of soap. Then take the cake out and crack it up into pieces. If you watch it and stir it, once it is all liquid you can put into ice cube trays or some other small containers suitable as a soap size. I used to do this all the time.

I’m thinking of a tin can. Do I heat it or just add water?

When I open a new bar of soap, I stick the sliver to it when both are wet. They meld into one piece after a shower or two.

Huh!

@Call_Me_Jay

Do you keep the bar and the sliver in a soap dish, or some other container that retains water?

Cazzie could answer this. She makes soap.

@Brian1946 I have a shower caddy and the soap sits on a grid, it does not hold water. The puddle of water in a soap dish creeps me out, so on the sinks I keep liquid soap in a bottle.

Here’s an easy way to use them.

One more reason to use liquid soap.

I don’t like liquid soap in the shower. That’s where my bar soap bits come from .

@Dutchess_III

But when the bottle of liquid soap is almost empty, you can add water and sort of reconstitute it.
Then, when it is empty, there are no chips. And you can buy liquid soap in bulk at Costco and fill up the old bottle that was in the shower.

Plus, there is none of that sort of slimy residue that you have scrup off of the soap holder.
Plus, liquid soap doesn’t leave the same kind of residue on the shower tile that bar soap does. It scrubs off a lot easier.

…..................Any downside to liquid soaps? Are they more expensive? Less green? Sniff. Just when I was starting to get thrilled with my reconstituted bits! Can’t wait for it to be done so I can post a picture!

More expensive. I don’t remember the numbers but I figured it out many years ago and switched to plain old Ivory bars.

My grandfather had a wire mesh contraption with a handle into which he put odd bits of soap. When washing dishes etc he waved this contraption about in the water to try to generate a lather. Even then, to us children it seemed a little odd but then we were from a quite different generation.

@Dutchess_III No heating. Just put the bits in a form and enough water to bately cover the bits and wait. I always just put it under the sink and forgot about it for a month or so.

This. https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineemiller/save-every-bit-of-bar-soap-with-this-clever-sponge-soap-dish?utm_term=.vnvMgzbPb#.ttvZxlKPK

Cool @answerjill. (Man, it’s been, like FOREVER! Good to see you!)

Awww… Thanks, @Dutchess_III. (Yeah, I’ve been away a long time…) Did I know you by another name?

Maybe Val123? Has it been THAT long?

THANK YOU! Check that out! Next time I think it will be even better! Maybe I’ll come up with some sort of Fluther log to stamp into it.

Sorry, I didn’t see this question. I had company these past three weeks. You shouldn’t have to heat it up, but just add a bit of water and some pressure and then set it to dry and you should have a usable bar. I put my soap bits in a ‘soap sock’ that I crocheted with some bamboo yarn. I also use the ‘add to the top of my next bar’ technique.

Liquid soap is not soap, usually. It is detergent made from surfactants and they, more likely than not, are petroleum derived. SLS is often produced using something called the Ziegler process creating fatty alcohols from ethylene (from petroleum bi products). It can be produced using palm oil and coconut fat, but you have no idea when you buy the products labled with SLS or SLES where it comes from and SLS from the Zeigler process is one of the fastest growing industrial demands being met by China and the Middle East. The basic chemical, ethylene, is the same as they use in plastics.