How to make remnants useful

Where do you use the soap remnants? They always remain! Well, we can’t wash the soap completely without any residue. Therefore, the question: “What to do with the remnants?” sooner or later arises in front of every housewife. It turns out that there is already an answer to this question.

Throwing it away is not an option!

Many people throw small pieces into the trash without thinking. But, based on statistics, you can come to frightening figures.

Reference! One person uses a standard bar of soap in 15 days. If even 10 grams remain, 20 grams will accumulate in a month.

A standard piece weighs 75 grams. Means, in 4 months we throw away almost a bar of soap. And in a year already 3 pieces! Not too economical, don't you agree?

And if you multiply this bar by the price, you get a pretty good amount for a year. Especially if the family consists of 3-4 people.

In addition, such residues litter the planet. Therefore, we will find the best use for them.

How to use soap remnants for their intended purpose

For 100% use, you can use several methods.

We are increasing the volume of new packaging

The easiest way - attach the remaining soap to a new bar. To do this, we wet both surfaces and connect the parts.

Advice! If the new piece is convex and the soap does not hold well, you should not connect the parts immediately, but wait until the surface becomes smooth.

Preparing liquid soap

A slightly more complicated method is to make a solution.

For washing

Pour some water into an empty container and crumble the soap into it. In a few days you will get a wonderful product for those who like to use liquid substances when washing their face.

For domestic needs

• If you add water a little more, you get a solution that will perfectly help wash dishes, a car, a sink, or wash clothes (you won’t have to spend money on powder either).

Advice! Laundry soap is suitable for household work. It copes better with stains and dirt.

• droplet ammonia will turn the resulting solution into a liquid for cleaning floors or tiles.
• When adding regular soda This makes an excellent liquid for the kitchen or bath. Yes, you can also wash doors and windows with it.

Making a multi-colored block

The method is complex, but beautiful - to make multi-colored soap, just like in the store.

Will be needed leftover soap of different colors, silicone molds and microwave oven.

• We break up the remaining soap in an arbitrary manner. You can grate them (but this is not very convenient) or cut them with a knife.
• Mix the resulting crushed mass, place it in containers and put it in the microwave.
• In 20 seconds, the remnants will melt and join together.
• If there is not enough time, repeat the procedure.

Advice! You can add aromatic oils or fragrances to the mixture.

• After this, cool the bar on the table or in the refrigerator.

This soap can be given as an original gift. After a little practice, you can make drawings inside the resulting block.To do this, a pattern is laid out from the remnants, and all this beauty is filled with soapy water. You can also add flower petals, coffee beans and other cute things there.

By the way, all this can be done together with children, because they love making such crafts.

Making a washcloth that lathers itself

A good self-soaping sponge will work if put unnecessary remnants in an old terry sock. This washcloth will come in handy at home, in the country, and in the bathhouse.

The absence of a sock will not be an obstacle to making the necessary thing. You can use a regular sock or sew a washcloth from rags. This will also help you get rid of unnecessary things.

Not just soap!

As you can see, you can soap for a long time! But this is not the only way that remnants can help out.

When sewing

The most traditional way is to use soap instead of tailor's chalk. Soap lines erase perfectly, so there will be no marks left on the fabric at all.

For those who don’t like hand sewing and pick up a needle to mend a hole in a sock, you can make a pincushion. And the needles are stored in one, completely safe place, and are better stuck into the fabric.

For lubrication

For men, remnants are also useful, with their help it is better tighten all kinds of screws, lubricate the grooves of drawers.

Small pieces of soap and with a poorly fastened zipper on clothing. All you have to do is run it along the links of the fastener, and the problem is solved.

For aromatizing the air

Beautiful fragrance for bed linen or suitcase made from pieces of expensive scented soap. When using such a fragrance, you can safely say to mustiness: “Goodbye!”

Important! Moths do not like soapy “spirits,” so this flavoring is also useful for fighting this insect.

By the way, the nearby insects will also not be happy with such a neighborhood, so you can safely leave the remnants on the windowsill.

Garden plants will also thank their owners for such a gift. After all, most pests will try to move from them to a more comfortable place. So we put the odorous pieces in rag bags (or old socks) and hang them on trees and bushes.

For cosmetic procedures

Lovers of homemade cosmetics can pamper themselves with delicate bathroom from grated soap, salt and a drop of essential oil. Can you make it easy? scrubusing small pieces of soap, salt, sugar, crushed coffee beans.

In general, there are no limits to imagination! So you shouldn’t throw away any remaining detergent that may still be useful. This way you can preserve your financial reserves and fight for the environment.