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Your old soap bar is worn down to a nub. What is the best way you (Original Post) raccoon Sep 2023 OP
Netting JustAnotherGen Sep 2023 #1
Duct tape... MiHale Sep 2023 #2
Get LOTS of suds on the new bar, and press the old piece into the suds. lastlib Sep 2023 #3
I don't. I put it in a liquid soap dispenser with a little water. Easterncedar Sep 2023 #4
I do the same. LoisB Sep 2023 #8
Save up your scraps, then melt them all together. Several methods online. eppur_se_muova Sep 2023 #5
The trick is to use your nails to make crosshatch marks on one side of each bar ms liberty Sep 2023 #6
The soap bars are shrinking in size, so you get to the nub even faster nowadays. keithbvadu2 Sep 2023 #7

MiHale

(10,777 posts)
2. Duct tape...
Fri Sep 22, 2023, 06:27 AM
Sep 2023

No seriously, we use Kirk’s Castile soap, when it gets small it goes into a wide mouth gallon container filled with water. It will dissolve down and we use the soapy water for an insect spray on our plants.

lastlib

(24,901 posts)
3. Get LOTS of suds on the new bar, and press the old piece into the suds.
Fri Sep 22, 2023, 07:36 AM
Sep 2023

Put a weight on it while it dries.

ms liberty

(9,825 posts)
6. The trick is to use your nails to make crosshatch marks on one side of each bar
Fri Sep 22, 2023, 08:31 AM
Sep 2023

While each bar is only slightly damp. Press the two together, wiggle just a tad while pressing together and then carefully get the bar a bit more wet while turning it over in your hands to create lather. Fill those edges between the two bars with the thick lather, and I mean thick, really thick - then set the bar down and leave it to dry. I usually leave the small bar side up, and then I will be a bit more careful using the bar the next time or two, to make sure they continue to meld into one.
The real key is to create hatching or crosshatching on one side of each bar, and then making some 'slip' to fill in and join the two.
This whole method was adapted from what I learned in pottery class forty years ago, lol.

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