Homemade Soap question

[velochic]

We used to use Irish Spring, and when a bar would reach the end of its life, we'd just smoosh it together with the new one.

I now make all of our bar soap. It's the most basic of soaps... lard and lye and water. We love the soap as it has cleared up many skin issues. The problem is that it is quite hard and when it gets thin, it crumbles. I've grated and made liquid soap from it, but now we just have more liquid soap than I can store. Is there anything else you can do with this very fragile soap? I don't make it strong enough to do laundry, btw. TIA!

[chinaKat]

Originally Posted by velochic

We used to use Irish Spring, and when a bar would reach the end of its life, we'd just smoosh it together with the new one.

I now make all of our bar soap. It's the most basic of soaps... lard and lye and water. We love the soap as it has cleared up many skin issues. The problem is that it is quite hard and when it gets thin, it crumbles. I've grated and made liquid soap from it, but now we just have more liquid soap than I can store. Is there anything else you can do with this very fragile soap? I don't make it strong enough to do laundry, btw. TIA!

Well, you could use the liquid soap as a base for shampoo... or maybe some cleaning products. Add the appropriate essential oils and you're good to go.

Barring that, you could always save up a bunch of little pieces and then rebatch the soap. You could make some nice hand soaps that way.

[Abarat]

I think it would still be fine for laundry.

I also use batches I won't sell, or odd leftovers, small bits, etc. and grate them, place in water and then I have a sort of liquid/moosh that I use to wash my dishes. I hand wash so I don't have any trouble using it all up.