Using small bars of soap up

[Cherie31355]

I been trying to fiqure out the best way to use those small bars of soap...the size you get when you go to a hotel, etc. Travel size I guess you call them.
I seem to have quite a few of them.

Is there a way I can melt them down somehow and get them in a mold to make a regular size bath bar ?

I probably could use them to make laundry soap, but currently am ahead on liquid soap here.

I melt the pieces in my crock pot until they are the consistency to re-mold!

[BlessedMomof2]

I use the small bars of soap to wash my face in the shower or before bedtime. I also keep them at our bathroom sink for the kids to wash their hands with, they are the perfect size for little hands.

[ravenmaniac]

I use mine for camping or adhere them to a larger bar of soap.

[Thevail]

Thanks for the replies

I have tried putting odds and ends of pieces in one of those crochet soap bags that I made. It worked okay, but I was not impressed.
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Take the toe section of a pair of ruined pantyhose (or just..ahem..appropriate... one of those little wierd nylon sock thingies from the shoe stores) Put the soap slivers in that and then into the crocheted soap scrubbie. It works a lot better, not so gunky.

But they have bags made of several layers of that shower pouf material that are meant to hold those bits and have a drawstring. I use one. After a while the crocheted soap scrubbie got kinda..well it sorta disolved..it was a bit wierd.

[Luv2BeFrugal]

I just put them into an old tube sock and use it in the shower. Several go into the tube sock at once. . . and I just use it like a bath poof.

That is a great idea!!

[MyMelody]

I think the next time I get some travel-sized bars of soap from a hotel that I'll make sure one ends up in my glovebox for when I'm on the road. I've heard that they make nice drawer sachets if they're still in the wrapper, too.

[Debbie-cat]

Drop them in to a old nylon sock, tie the sock to the outside water spicket. Its great to have a way to wash hands after being in the garden!

I LOVE this idea! Thanks!

[thefrug]

I take all small slivers of bar soap and put them in a quart canning jar and add water. The soap melts and then if I run out of liquid hand soap I use that. I also have one for Fels Naptha soap. It melts down by it's self and then I use that for stain removal. Just dip an old tooth brush in and then scrub the stain before washing. Learned that from my Mom, who learned from HER Mom.

[hrtlink4u]

put them into a coffee mug and melt them in the microwave for 30 seconds at a time on full power - they should melt and you can pour them into a flexible dish and when it hardens you can pop it out.

[ladytoysdream]

I been experimenting.

The other day I melted a small batch up on the stove top in a kettle. I had to watch it very careful. Then poured it into small metal pans.

I tried melting some soap in the vegtable steamer. I also was working with leftover pieces of stick deorderant trying to make a new one. It worked but again, I had to keep a eye on it.

I have put some in a jar with water and let it soften up that way.

I gave the daughter in law some as is, because she said she liked the small bars for the kids to use.

My next experiment will be to put the small bars as is, in a metal rectangle like cake pan, add some cold water, and let it sit for awhile to soften it, and then going to cut them into the bigger bars. I figure the worse can happen here, is I have some soap for the laundry if I can't get it into bars I like.

I keep trying different ideas so as not to have to buy regular bars of soap. I keep running into deals with the small ones

[rainbowgc]

This is why I love the Village - seems like here someone always has an answer for a problem. Thanks for all the great ideas!

[crunchycon]

I travel a fair amount and take home the soap I've already used (can't stand the idea of it being thrown away). I just mush a couple of "used" bars together to make a useable bar; not pretty, but it works.