I just press the last softened sliver onto the next fresh bar of soap. It cements itself onto the new bar and becomes part of it.

I don't know about a bug repellent, but I used to put all the soap chips in the foot of an old stocking, and then hang it near the faucet outside to wash my hands with. Actually, when the kids were little, they used to love to wash their hands with this inside the house, where I kept it in the bathroom, but when they got older I moved the stocking outside.

Now I use liquid soap. Got tired of being the only one in the house who scraped the soap bits off the soap dish, lol.

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Dee

I've read it will keep the bunnies away from your vegetable plants. On Sunday I planted a few veggies. By Monday afternoon, something had nibbled on my pepper plants. I grated a bit of Ivory soap around the peppers and on the leaves, and I just checked, there has been no further nibbling. I've heard Ivory and Irish Spring, but not whether any kind will work.

I just break up the last remains of the soap bar, stick 'em in a pump bottle, add some water, shake and you have liquid soap or just add them to your liquid soap if you use that stuff.

Kevin

I pour hot water over it and it turns into a soap jelly that works great for washing laundry. We have soft water, though.

I have a soap bar holder from years ago. I put all the chips in there, and when it's almost full, I add water and some essential oils (you can buy them cheap at the dollar stores sometimes.) and when it dries, I have a new bar of sweet smelling soap. You can also melt them down, recolor them, and pour them into those ice cube trays that have special shapes for all seasons, or candy molds, for guest soaps.

I also make liquid soap from a soap bar. I just grate some soap, pour cold water over it and let it dissolve slowly overnight. I used to boil it up, but found it got too thick and solid, and wouldn't come out of the pump.

I put glass marbles in the bottom of the pump container. If the soap gets a bit solid, I just shake it up, and the marbles mix it up nicely. They also weight the pump bottle down so that even when it's nearly empty, it doesn't tip over.

Ashita