Since I became a homemade "soaper" I've begun to notice soaps and their condition more closely.
Too much soap gets wasted and thrown away for ONE SIMPLE reason!
The reason is that people allow the soap they have just used to sit on wet counters or on a wet tub rim!
When homemade soaps ....and most commercial soaps too, sit in water too long, they absorb that water and get SMUSHY and useless...and the owners usually throw them out because they just don't know what to do.
So, as I love to putter around like a pioneer woman, I grabbed some scrap pieces of wood and a couple plain rubber bands and Voila! I invented a rustic "soap saver" to rest my homemade soaps on after using.
Now, when I use my homemade soaps they dry up quickly after using and last MUCH MUCH LONGER!
Would you like to try to make your own "soap saver"?
All you need is:
1/ four pieces of scrap wood that are free of splinters and are close to the same size. If you can't find four pieces to make a square "soap saver" then just use two equal pieces and then another two matching longer pieces to make a rectangular shaped "soap saver".
2/Hammer the pieces together, but don't let the nail heads touch the bottom surface. You don't want the possibility of the metal nails to touch a wet counter top or tub rim and cause rust.
3/ Use some sand paper to sand down any rough edges that remain. You want your "soap saver" to be safe to touch even with wet hands.
3/ Take a couple of plain ole rubber bands, the kind that come from around the local newspaper that is delivered to your door and wrap them around the wooden frame. Criss cross the design until the grid is small enough that a bar of small soap won't fall through the holes made between the rubber bands.
That's it you're done!
D.I.Y. heaven :)
Carla.
