The Genius Way To Turn Used Soap Slivers Into A Brand New Bar
Bar soap and shampoo bars are often the number-one choice to make our showers or baths fresh-scented and luxurious. Often, the bar dwindles down way too fast, leaving a small sliver that is hard to use. In most cases, this tiny piece is simply thrown out and replaced with a brand-new bar. However, an ingenious and simple solution for making good use of those tiny unusable slivers is already in your shower. Just adhere the leftover slivers to a fresh bar while they are still wet.
This is a great sustainability solution to throwing those bits away. It's also an excellent way to save money instead of constantly buying new bars before the other one is gone. The additional soap will grant longer usage time for the fresh bar. While Depression-era housewives often melted old soaps down into new soaps to save money, this technique takes only a few seconds in the bath or shower to get similar results. It's also useful if you really like a bar's scent and are not quite ready to bid it adieu once it wears down to just a sliver. If your bars are simply wasting away too quickly, you could also try an aluminum foil hack to make them last longer.
Combining old bars with new bars
TikToker @plasticfreeamsterdam reveals how to adhere the old slivers of soap to the new bar. Basically, you'll just press them together when wet and allow them to completely dry in the shower overnight. The old piece will mold itself into the new bar, creating a slightly larger piece. You can do this with a new soap of the same scent or use a different one to combine scents. You can even combine different varieties of soap, like an exfoliating bar on one side and a smooth moisturizing one on the other.
Over time and with lots of use, the old and new soap bars will merge to become indistinguishable from each other. Once you've used up most of that soap, simply repeat the process with your leftover piece on a new bar. This is a particularly great solution for shampoo bars, which are often more expensive than regular bars of soap, allowing you to get more use out of them over time. You can also use these partially-recycled bars for other household uses like placing them in your garden.