Blurple and I made liquid soap out of this bar of Dove soap today. The current soap bar in the shower is but a sliver and well... I just got tired of using bar soaps. I miss liquid soaps and hadn't used them since probably elementary. But they're pretty pricey, especially the Dove ones. So our household gave them up.
Anyhow, I figured bar soap is nothing more than concentrated liquid soap. So by all means, I started searching online and it was simple enough to do.
This was the aftermath of Blurple versus Dove bar soap. I didn't have a grater, so Blurple did all the work. :) Easy as pie! It looks like white chocolate! Since I was only doing a tester batch, I used only half bar. For the Dove recipes that I'd found online, the soap to water ratio was usually 1:2 (for all other soaps, it's 1:10). Because Dove already contains moisturizer, glycerin was not needed.
Since I didn't want to mess up the good pots in the house, I went ahead and used the little pot from my mess kit. Using the above ratio, I brought 1 cup of water to boil and added the soap flakes in. Stir until there are no more lumps, and put it out overnight to cool. I poured mine into a jar. After it's cooled, I'll be pouring it into a pump bottle thing for shower use. :) Perhaps hand soap too.
How did the soap turn out? Is the consistency that you expected / wanted?
ReplyDeleteIt came out pretty well! The consistency was just like the liquid body wash. Though compared to the readily made Dove one, it was just a smidge runnier. :)
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