
Recycled soap looks like white chocolate with nougat. Yummy it is not. Clean, it is. Macro shot of a cake of soap. Photo by Don Tai
Looks are deceiving, here in Toronto, Canada. This is recycled soap that I partially melted in a double boiler, cooled, then let sit for a couple of months to get nice and dry. It does look like white milk chocolate with nougat bits, but one bite would tell you otherwise. Most of it is made from Ivory soap!
It took over a decade of keeping all the little bits of soap in the house. I really did not know what to do with these bits, but it seemed wasteful to simply throw them out, so we kept them in a specific spot on our kitchen window sill. In the summer I researched how to recycle the soap. Break up the soap bits, do a double boiler on low heat and the soap bits melt down. Then you stir it like a thick sauce, put it into a container to dry and after at least a month to dry, there you have it. I was too impatient to wait until all the soap bits had melted, for fear that the soap would burn. I left it in a cool, dry and remote place in the house so that no one would disturb it, including myself.
I have no idea whether these will perform just as well as Ivory Soap, but I’m willing to give it a try.

Recycled soap looks like white chocolate with nougat. I made 6 cakes of soap. Photo by Don Tai

Recycled soap looks like white chocolate with nougat. Yummy it is not. Clean, it is. Macro shot of a cake of soap. Photo by Don Tai