There’s no doubt about it. At Areev we love our soap and are obsessed with it, so much so that we can’t bear to waste even a scrap of it.What do you do with the stocked up bars of soap lying around in your home? They can be used for many other purposes! Here are a few that we’ve found useful : Lubricate nails, screws, and saw blades: Soap on metal helps it go through wood more easily. Nails and screws go in easier and are less likely to split the wood if they are first stuck in a bar of soap. Rubbing soap over a handsaw blade will help it cut straighter and be less resistant to the wood. Keep your fingernails clean: While you’re working in the garden or potting plants, scrape your fingernails over a bar of soap to collect slivers underneath them. This will prevent dirt from caking under your nails and the soap washes out easily. Keep bugs off plants: Soap works as an insect repellent and can protect your plants from being eaten by bugs. Mix soap with water until it’s sudsy, then put the water solution in a bottle and spray the underside of plant leaves. Relieve itchy bug bites: Rub the bites with a dampened bar of soap for instant itch relief. It also helps keep the bites clean. Keep your clothes fresh: Place bars of soap in closets, drawers, suitcases, and bins where you store your clothing. It’ll also repel bugs and prevent musty odors. Remove stains from fabric: Rub a damp bar of white soap over stains, then wash the clothes Mark a hem: Instead of using store-bought marking chalk, use a sliver of bar soap to draw a line for a hem. It washes out more easily than chalk. Garden bug repellent:Place a bar of soap in your garden to keep pests away Household bug repellent: Mix soap and water and place in a spray bottle and spray around your home to rid your house of spiders and bugs Rid your house of fleas: Place some liquid soap in a bowl mixed with water under a light and it will attract fleas and they will drowned Zippers: Loosen stuck or rusty zippers by sliding some bar soap up & down the zipper Detect gas leaks: Mix a solution of water and soap and rub along pipes, if it bubbles, you found your leak. Soot prevention: If you’re planning a cook out using a cast iron pot, rub a bar of soap over the bottom of the pot before you set it over the open flame. The soap will make for easy cleanup, as the soap will prevent the soot from accumulating. Halt squeaks in floorboards: work a little moist soap into the cracks between the boards. Loosen a tight ring: Rub soap over the finger. The ring will slide off when the hand is washed. Loosen a stiff door lock: Lubricate the key by rubbing it with soap. Keep eyeglasses from steaming in cold weather: Rub both sides of each lens with soapy fingers, and then polish. Smelly sneakers, boots or shoes: Simply place a wrapped bar of the soap in your shoes, sneaker or boots and leave overnight. They will smell fresh by morning. Make your own hydrating shave lotion: Mix together a solution of one part hot water and one part grated bar soap. Make old-fashioned drawers slide easier: Rub soap on the wood-on-wood surfaces to make drawers slide easier. Make sliding glass doors slide easier: Rub soap on the bottom track of sliding glass doors. Helps a sewing needle go through fabric easily: Stick needle into soap. If you are like us and like maximizing efficiency and usefulness, you’ll make a little soap go a long, long way !
