What do you do with your bar of soap when it has dwindled down?

Asked by Jellie (6492

) June 2nd, 2011

I use soap bars as opposed to liquid handwash. Now, every month or so I will find myself wanting to throw away the bar of soap when it has been used to the point that it is not that easy to use due to its reduced size. Of course there is still a fair bit of soap left but just the fact that it is so thin and difficult to grip in your hand makes me want to open up a fresh bar. I hate wasting (yes even a little bit of soap) so I havn’t thrown them away and don’t use them either.

I want to know what you guys do with your soap bars when they’re that size? Do you chuck ‘em?

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I merge it onto a new bar of soap by wetting them both down and pressing them together.

“Waste not, want not”, I always say.

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I don’t often use bar soap, and I hate trying to stick the two pieces together like @aprilsimnel said – it never seems to work for me. So I usually end up throwing out the tiny bit. I’ve seen a lot of soap saver bags around, though. Seems like a good idea so as not to have to worry about the bits.

Seelix (14952

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The idea of touching soap that other people have touched is rather repulsive to me. I always use liquid hand soap and liquid body wash.

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I haven’t used bar soap in a while, I use just liquid soap now. But I would just chuck it away. A bar of soap is one of the cheapest toiletry items you can get – it seems pointless trying to scrimp the last little bit that’s probably worth no more than 0.1 of a penny.

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