HELP with repurposing

[thecatlady]

Hi everyone,

I am very new to playing with soap and so far I have really enjoyed it. I have only been repurposing old soaps that I have found around the house. I have been looking for an aswer to my question online but haven't been able to find anything so I was hoping you all could help me.

Do you know if it is bad to repurpose soap with many different kinds of soaps (some from hotels and others from the store)? Can there be a physical reaction on the skin? Will it make the new soap difficult to work with? What happens?

I have been taking old bars of soap and mixing 1 cup of soap flakes with 10 cups of water and 1 tbsp of glycerin to make a liquid soap. I have only found that this mixture tends to be very thick and not like the consistency of store bought liquid soap and I wasn't sure if this was a result of me mixing different soaps or my liquid soap recipe.

Any and all comments are greatly appreciated!!!! Thank you in advance!!!!

Cheers,
Bea

 

[Lindy]

Hello Bea,

I'm not sure why you would be repurposing commercial soaps when it is so easy to make your own that are healthy for your skin? I am personally allergic to most commercial soaps which is what brought me making my own products.

Cheers

 

[lizflowers42]

Try using a foaming pump! I tried making liquid Dial soap over a year ago by grating a bar (that I found in the back of my linen closet-trust me I love natural soap-but I can't live with wasting something that I already have. Any way it turned out super slimy and gross feeling. I saw a suggestion to water it down even further and put into one of the foamy pumps and it worked great!

Now that its been used up I thankfully can go back to the handcrafted kind