Comments on: Making Dish Soap Look Attractive

By: Meghan

Meghan — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:07:44 +0000

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

By: Stacey

Stacey — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:06:52 +0000

Our dish soap hangs out in the cabinet under the sink. Out of sight but still handy.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:02:38 +0000

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

By: Jeannie

Jeannie — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:28:39 +0000

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!

By: Amber

Amber — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:03:08 +0000

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). ;)

By: Vicki K

Vicki K — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:35:46 +0000

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.