If homemade soap-on-a-rope isn't your thing, the folks over at Treehugger turned us on to this nifty little invention for reusing your miniscule soap slivers.
Soap Bank by Designodoubt
The Soap Bank works like a plain old soap dish for a new bar of soap, affixing to the wall with a suction cup. The innovation happens as the bar of soap diminishes -- when it finally gets small enough to slip through an opening in the bottom of the dish, it's caught by a net basket.
Rubbing the net basket with wet hands produces sufficient lather to get a few more handwashings out of the slivers of soap. Apparently the net basket attaches with magnets so one can remove it altogether for handwashing or cleaning.
The design is still a prototype so we'll have to wait to buy it, but it doesn't seem too hard to DIY in the meantime. The Soap Bank is by Designodoubt.
Via: Treehugger
Originally posted by Danielle on AT:SF.
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Doesn't make sense to spend money on this type of thing. It's really easy to "sew" your tiny soap to the top of the next bar. When the soap gets small open the next bar and create bubbles with both bars put together. Then if there are slight cracks between the two mush some of the bubbles into the cracks. Let dry and be careful with the sewn soap for the next few uses each time mushing more bubbles into any remaining cracks. Eventually it becomes one bar of soap again. The trick is to not to sew the soap too early when the little piece isn't small enough.
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how many times are you AT folks going to post this ridiculous soap thing! This is at least the 5th time, and I still don't like it.
Plus... who knew soap wasting was such an issue!
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