Making Dish Soap Look Attractive
Switching to bars of soap instead of liquid has seriously cut down on our soap consumption and the packaging that gets thrown away. We made the switch after a 30-day beauty routine challenge way back in June. The little switches in our routine that have followed have been fabulous. The only problem? This one has also left us with an extra soap dispenser. Don’t worry. The dispenser wasn’t on vacation for long before we gave it a new role: holding our dish soap.
This way we don’t have to keep an ugly jug of dish soap on the counter or constantly reach under the sink for it. And you know how we love repurposing!
What about you? Care to dish the dirt on where your dish soap hangs out?
September 29th, 2009 at 4:17 am
My dish soap resides right on my counter in an empty scotch bottle with a bar spout. I had to dilute it a little though. The bottle was so shapely, I had to find a way to re-use it.
September 29th, 2009 at 4:32 am
in the ugly bottle it came in by my sink. i hate it. must get some prettier bottles. i will say i don’t like bar soap except in shower bc that container gets all grimy.
September 29th, 2009 at 7:27 am
I was just thinking about this last week. We still use the ugly plastic bottle it came in, but we were just trying to think of a new way to do the 2 soaps/scrubbies at the sink deal.
Any tips on keeping your cake soap from getting cracks or just getting gummy on the bottom? In the US I had a rubber soap dish with prongs that kept the soap out of the water, but even then it still got goopy. It’s these 2 problems that make my husband refuse to use cake soap.
September 29th, 2009 at 8:35 am
It may not be very efficient, but I do not leave my dishsoap out on my counter. It goes underneath in the cabinet. But I do have a pretty footed white Wedgewood bowl that holds my red scrubber and a scraper. I put the bowl on a long white ceramic rectangular tray ($3 at World Market) that also holds a nice bottle of hand lotion. From time to time I just put both items in the dishwasher and get sparkling clean holders again.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:03 am
My dish soap hangs out in a super-sized bottle on my counter. Not pretty, but that’s really secondary when you consider all the tupperware the baby’s strewn across the floor, or the half-drunk glasses of milk my preschooler’s left on the counter. I have given up the good fight (at least for a couple of years). ;)
September 30th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
This may sound so basic but what solid dish soap do you use for your dishes? I only know of the liquid kind here in my town. I have switched to using an old Bath & Body Works hand soap pump bottle for my dish soap as I find I can control the amount I use far better, eliminating a lot waste. I have also switched out my shampoo bottle for another old B&BW pump bottle..very handy especially with having a teenaged girl who is in love with shampoo in the house!
October 1st, 2009 at 10:02 am
Juliette,
I suspect the slimy feeling your getting from your soap bar is because there’s too much water ending up in the tub after someone washes his/her hands. I noticed our soap bar was really slimy when we had a guest over… is it bad that i watched his habits so i could compare why the soap was slimy when he was over versus when it was just us? i only wanted to know! Our soap is just in a bowl, so there aren’t any fancy knobs for the soap to sit higher on. We struggle with the soap sticking to the dish. When we were using a handmade dish in the US that wasn’t perfectly level on the bottom, our soap never stuck. So I am still thinking on that dilemma…
Jeannie,
sorry for not being very clear. we use liquid dish soap, not a solid, for washing dishes. I haven’t heard of a solid but would love to try something. Our handsoap, however, is a solid bar. We switched a couple of months ago.
Katie
October 3rd, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Our dish soap hangs out in the cabinet under the sink. Out of sight but still handy.
October 5th, 2009 at 12:07 am
I also decant my dish soap into a dispenser.
For Juliette R., I wrote on my blog about how I store the scrubbie things at my kitchen sink. Perhaps it can give you some ideas. (In the picture I posted, you can even see part of the soap dispenser.)
http://unintendedhousewife.blogspot.com/2009/09/kitchen-sink-organization.html