The Bottom of the Soap Dish

[BobS]

On Sunday morning I got to the bottom of my first puck of MWF - meaning the surface was deeply dished, to the point the the center of the bowl had started to show through.

I thought that it would be a good idea to try melt the soap and take everything down to a flat surface, so I put it in the microwave. Within about 15 seconds, I had soap bubbling out the top of the dish. The soap was very soft, but definitely no really flowing (kind of like a cream).

I was able to use a butter knife to catch most of it and create a more or less smooth surface on top and this morning the soap worked fine.

I think that next time I would either use a lot less power on the microwave or perhaps put it in a regular oven.

So then, what do you do when you get to the bottom of a puck of soap?

 

[mdunn]

I hate to say it, but you might have killed that puck. Glycerine based soaps microwave happily, but im pretty sure MWF wont have responded well. At least theres only a little left.

Any time I need to get a tallow based soap somewhere it wont fit I shave and grate it and then mush it so it does

 

[mblakele]

Re-milling it would be safer.

 

[Prince]

Re-milling it would be safer.

+1. Triple milled soaps don't melt very well.

 

[demaro]

When I am nearing the end of a soap , I take it out of my bowl , put in a new soap and put the old one on top. That way the whole soap getes used .

 

[dpm802]

So then, what do you do when you get to the bottom of a puck of soap?

If I ever finish off a puck of soap, I'll let you know.

With most products, though, I get it down to the last 10% or so, then toss it in a bag of leftovers. These are deemed as samples and PIFs. I currently have about 20 items designated in this pile, mostly creams and ASBs.

 

[jpkunst]

When I am nearing the end of a soap , I take it out of my bowl , put in a new soap and put the old one on top. That way the whole soap getes used .

That's what I do as well.

 

[mparker762]

So then, what do you do when you get to the bottom of a puck of soap?

Put a new puck in, and shove it down so that it embeds itself in the remnants of the old puck, locking it in place. Most of the old puck will squish around the sides of the new smaller puck, filling up much of the space, or all of it, depending on how much of the old puck was left. The remnants will be gradually used up as the new puck wears away, and in a year or two the cycle will repeat.

 

[Sullybob]

I just used it all. I kept making lather from an AOS Sandalwood puck after I had worn a hole in the bottom. Eventually I only had a strip of soap on one side of the bowl, then It was gone.

 

[Mr. Imperial]

I just used it all. I kept making lather from an AOS Sandalwood puck after I had worn a hole in the bottom. Eventually I only had a strip of soap on one side of the bowl, then It was gone.

Did a singularity open up at the bottom of the bowl?

I wonder where soap shards go to play...

 

[Sullybob]

Did a singularity open up at the bottom of the bowl?

I wonder where soap shards go to play...

It became pretty tiresome to load my brush up on the strip, so I just started using the bowl as a lather bowl. One day I couldn't really get a decent lather, I had used the soap all up. I did the only sensible thing, I put another AOS puck in the bowl, this time I went with Lavender