3 Ways to Zero Waste Your Soap Scraps
Channel: Happy Holistics
Date: 2017-04-27

1) Frankenstein these mo fos.  Basically, you collect scraps, wet them and attempt to squeeze them together and morph them into a usable lump.  This is what it looks like the day after when I use end pieces and eventually, it’ll look like 1 piece of soap.  If you’ve ever tried this before, you would know that it takes a bit of effort and a hell lot of patience to get it to stay like this without falling apart.  But if you’re as ghetto as I am, you can make it work with any shapes.  Since it’s not the easiest method to work with, let’s move on.
2) As you can see here, if they’re weirdly shaped, it’s much harder to glue them together.  So, toss ‘em into a muslin bag, wet, and use like it’s normal soap.  This allows you to use the tiniest pieces and the abnormally shaped pieces without the hassle and effort of waiting for the Universe to Frankensoap those guys together.  As you can see, I get a pretty decent lather and it kind of acts like its own washcloth.  
3) You can cook your leftovers in water to create liquid soap like this, which I use it in my laundry.  If you have bigger, chunkier pieces, you may want to run them through a grater first or toss them in a food processor.  Collect enough scraps to equal to about 1 bar of soap - you can adjust the amount depending on how concentrated you want the liquid to be.  Add 1.5 L of water and heat it over stovetop.  I bring it to almost a boil, turn off the heat, then let it sit until it’s cooled - this recipe is from one of the Ecoholic books by Adrian Vasil.  Then it goes into a storage container and is ready to use.  This is the consistency of it after sitting around for a couple of weeks. 

**water photo from pexels.com 
**Cooking clip from videos.pexels.com