On Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 10:55:59 AM UTC-4, Wade Garrett wrote:
On 4/21/17 1:52 PM, Doug Miller wrote:
"(PeteCresswell)" wrote in news41kfc5b4achekatlv5q5sa329hesn50iq@
4ax.com:

I have a container full of little left-over fragments of bar soap.

I would like to melt them down and pour a nice big bar of soap.

Tried microwaving both with and without added water, but no-go.

I guess stovetop in a double boiler is next.

Is melting bar soap possible?

Yes, but it's WAY more work than it's worth. Did it once, never again. It takes hours. What's a
bar of soap cost, fifty cents? Just throw them out. Then, next time you have a bar worn down
to a sliver, and unwrap a new bar, get both of them good and wet and press the sliver onto
the new bar and keep using it.


Works with most bar soaps- but not with Dove brand though.


In my experience, it works with Dove, but only under specific conditions:

The sliver from the old bar has to be soft, almost mushy, and the Dove
logo on the new bar has to be worn away.

I shave in the shower and Dove soap in my shaving "cream". When the Dove
bar is too small to conveniently use as a shower bar, it becomes my shaving
bar. By the time it is too small to use as a shaving bar, the logo is worn
off the new bar and the sliver is soft enough to stick.

I've been doing it that way for more years than I can remember.