Liquid hand soap

I've almost run out of liquid handsoap so I thought I would share the process with you as promised in an earlier post.

It started when I bought 3 bars of soap from Mr T's for 13p (yes, 13p!!!) but I found that it left long, gloopy strings of soap all over the sinks. Team Rose Villa are untidy enough, we don't need soap conspiring against us. So I searched the Internet and found a recipe for liquid soap. Unfortunately, I can't find the original site so apologies to the lady who shared this recipe in advance.

It's really, really simple. You need a grater, a bowl or bucket, a stirring implement, 1 bar of soap, (any kind, in fact if you have nice soap, this will make it go further or you could collect up the odds and ends until you have the same weight as a bar), 2.5 litres of boiling water, olive oil and possibly a hand blender.

Grate the soap into the bowl or bucket...

...and add the water.

You can add the water in batches, stir until the soap dissolves and leave to cool.

At this point it will be very liquid and it doesn't look like it will ever thicken up. However, when it cools, it will appear to be a solid jelly like lump.

You can just make out where the spoon handle has been in the mixture

Just add 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil (and some essential oil if you like) and blitz with the blender. I guess a mixer, food processor or jug blender (paint or plaster mixer DH says!) would work too or some very vigorous stirring. I reused 3 hand wash dispensers and have one in the kitchen, one in the downstairs cloakroom and one in the bathroom. 1 batch lasts for ages which is amazing considering how many times I wash my hands a day! I store the surplus in a 2 litre pop bottle...

...and it does try to solidify again but shake the bottle and it loosens up. Don't worry if it comes out in gloopy strings, it will dispense just fine. You could add food colouring if you really want to impress visitors! Label as you don't want to mix it up with your Laundry Gloop!

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