How Used Hotel Soap Gets Recycled Into Brand New Bars | World Wide Waste

How Used Hotel Soap Gets Recycled Into Brand New Bars | World Wide Waste | Insider Business

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Hotels throw out millions of used bars of soap every year. But two groups, one in Florida and one in France, collect the old bars and recycle them into brand new ones for people in need. The simple act of hand-washing with soap could help save 700 children a day.
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How Used Hotel Soap Gets Recycled Into Brand New Bars | World Wide Waste | Insider Business

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@BusinessInsider Жыл бұрын

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@roncatanzaro785 Жыл бұрын

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@phoenixplayz8256 Жыл бұрын

First ig

@wobb1221 9 ай бұрын

Tot hotels supply liquid soap only -- more hygenic....

@AltraxX 8 ай бұрын

why cant they just clean the soap

@laurahamilton5847 8 ай бұрын

😊😊

@Woodsguy Жыл бұрын

This is why I always take my hotel soap home with me, no need to recycle

@charlesbeloved7951 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂 good point

@sundown404 Жыл бұрын

Me too 😊

@buttercup448 Жыл бұрын

But you kept the already recycled one

@thevintagekitty Жыл бұрын

Same

@dunstalker Жыл бұрын

Didn't you hear the video? Yes, there is, hotel throws it into trash, regardless if you used it or not.

@thehangmansdaughter1120 Жыл бұрын

I'm a soapmaker myself, making soap by hand. I would always grate up my left overs, melt them and make bars for the homeless. I also used to tell my customers to bring in the scraps left at the end of the bar and I'd add them to the pot to melt down. Most were more than happy to see it not go to waste and help someone out.

@korwynze6288 Жыл бұрын

thats awesome, do you have a website or a page about it by chance? ^w^

@giblets4510 Жыл бұрын

How do you sterilize the scraps from used bars before you remelt them? Great idea ♥️

@thehangmansdaughter1120 Жыл бұрын

@@giblets4510 I scrape down each side, and heat the soap in a slow cooker, getting to about 70C. Then I add in a small amount of freshly made, raw soap. The PH is enough to kill anything still alive.

@thehangmansdaughter1120 Жыл бұрын

@@korwynze6288 No, I only sell locally here in NZ.

@kiaaniheremaia5804 Жыл бұрын

Where do you sell in nz

@rsc4peace971 Жыл бұрын

This is one of the great examples of "how can we reduce" waste while repurposing the waste either for the same or another use. I lived in a country where even poor-quality soap was expensive and people stretched a small bar to the maximum until everything was used for personal cleansing or general cleaning. When I came to the USA, I was just blown away by how much is wasted even some 50 years back.

@MM-oh3zs Жыл бұрын

And at the same time criminals (hardly can find a better word) manufacture billions of units of crap items (mainly in China, India, and other places where they manufacture something that won't last even 2 months). All imports of such crap should be immediately banned in the whole civilized world unless it does meet requirements and won't break within 24 months. Those are the biggest reasons behind the huge production of CO2 by India and China.

@coolgirlfrozenfeet Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that has always bothered me.

@Ms_Nightshade Жыл бұрын

Some of us who were raised here learned bad lessons from our culture that new = clean, bigger = better, faster = supremacy, people = money, and excess = joy. Now we wonder what went wrong with our country when it was WE who got our priorities all confused. 😢

@Greg-yu4ij Жыл бұрын

@@no_goo you are so right! Tallow is $730 a ton. 10 tons of tallow plus sulfuric acid would probably be $10,000. That whole company is spending $1 million or more a year to recover $.01 million in material . Recycling soap seems pointless unless the fancy fragrance is what you’re looking for.

@nonyafkinbznes1420 Жыл бұрын

@@Greg-yu4ij "Recycling soap seems pointless" Most far-left initiatives are.

@kuro.hitsuji Жыл бұрын

I love that they donate the recycled soap to countries in need, what an amazing thing to do. That's a lot of effort to put into a product for people the rest of the world seem to forget about. This definitely makes me think twice about wasting something as simple as soap, thank you for the informative video!

@francisjosephcutamora8530 Жыл бұрын

Props to shawn seipler because it he thinks about it while being drunk But before it happened you wouldn't love that as hotel exist way earlier in year 2009 until he got drunk and curious about it

@BTayache Жыл бұрын

So happy to see Clean The World finally getting recognized for their efforts since 2009. They’ve made such a huge difference all over the world and continue to do so much. I see unisoap has taken their model and backstory to also do good in France!

@regeinaneimar7342 Жыл бұрын

Is there anybody calculated how much plastic waste they distributed all over the world since 2009 as packages for their recycled soap ? Are you happy to see that too ? Huge difference indeed !

@BTayache Жыл бұрын

@@regeinaneimar7342 ah.. it’s gonna suck when you find out that they also recycle all the plastic bottles they receive. Nice try on the CONSTANT BASELESS NEEDLESS cynicism but better luck next time.

@regalbeauty Жыл бұрын

Also the Global Soap Project was founded in 2009. Not sure if they’re still up and running tho…

@ElysetheEevee Жыл бұрын

@@regeinaneimar7342 In addition to what's already been said in this thread, there isn't going to be a 100% efficient solution to things like this: especially to such a new idea and process on an industrial level. As it stated in the video, it took TWO YEARS for the French company to simply get through the trial-and-error/test phases and then training of staff. You're cutting off your nose to spite your face, to use an old adage.

@mvc7966 Жыл бұрын

@@regeinaneimar7342 yes better without plastic like France. Recycled cardboard box ♻️

@miles_quartz Жыл бұрын

IM A TOTAL SOAP NERD AND THIS IS SO COOL!! I love how the bars are donated to people in need and not sold for a profit as well, that's nice to see! also I love how this is forcing hotels and companies to focus on the waste they create in the first place and try to cut back on that instead of just sending their trash off to these companies as a band aid solution

@kidkique Жыл бұрын

what's a soap nerd??

@miles_quartz Жыл бұрын

@TS I love soap and I am obsessed with learning about soap. :) a nerd for soap

@TopTechSavvy Жыл бұрын

@@miles_quartz wtf

@TopTechSavvy Жыл бұрын

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ we don't need advertisement on a video about recycling soap

@warfarenotwarfair5655 Жыл бұрын

Donating to nations that are "developing" simply defeats the purpose of ensuring they become prosperous. Western nations with their absurd "green movements" are already blocking developing nations especially in Africa loans to industrialize so they can climb out of poverty and actually join the world in producing technology through innovation and productivity. Poor people don't give a rip about the environment and rightfully so! This is more "feel good" propaganda to push moronic Millennial "green" narratives from the West.

@iflan09 Жыл бұрын

I used to travel a lot for work and always brought home the soap. When Covid hit, my traveling days were over. It took me two years before I had to buy a bar of soap.

@dianeseverin2529 Жыл бұрын

I always save my soap ends. When I get enough, I shred them in the food processor, toss them with water into a pot, and heat the mix until the soap dissolves. Then I pour it into silicon muffin molds and let it dry. When I use different colors of soap, the final effect is pretty cool…they look like high end soap bars. There are instructions with proportions on the internet.

@Cherrys4Me8P Жыл бұрын

I travel for work and I love how a lot of hotels are switching to affixed pump dispensers. When I go to hotels that still use the small packages of soap and shampoo I take them and donate them to homeless shelters, since most hotels have to throw them away whether people use them or not, because they cannot tell if they have been tampered with.

@somethingsomething404 Жыл бұрын

The large bottles in the shower can also be tampered with though, someone could pee or worse in them? I travel a lot too and I notice Marriott’s big bottles don’t open so this isn’t possible, but it also doesn’t seem possible to refill them either

@Cherrys4Me8P Жыл бұрын

@@somethingsomething404 the hotels I stay at have them affixed to the wall so only housekeeping can unlock and refill them. I've never seen one that I felt concerned with being tampered with, but if you are concerned, you may want to bring your own toiletries. 🤷🏽‍♀️

@somethingsomething404 Жыл бұрын

@@Cherrys4Me8P I empty the things and take all the soap home lol, so that’s why I know some are easier to open than others I’m not too concerned, but it is a possibility

@Cherrys4Me8P Жыл бұрын

@@somethingsomething404 😆 no judgment!

@thechariotcard Жыл бұрын

Guess what… They cannot tell if someone has peed into the Refillable bottles, either

@charliem.7492 Жыл бұрын

Ok, when I first saw this my thought was, 'this is gross and disgusting. You have NO idea what kind of germs and diseases people have that is left over on the soap!' After watching it, I'm highly impressed. The fact that these people go out of their way to try and create something to help other's in need is absolutely amazing and I pray that God continues to bless both companies. 🥰

@banalucki Жыл бұрын

art and science and service - always all good

@atulmalhotra2303 Жыл бұрын

Soaps are self cleansing.

@banalucki Жыл бұрын

@@karlwithak1835 Did you just pop out of virtual as a deep fake version of Tale of Two Cities to comment about the love of money - the root of all evil in the world?

@banalucki Жыл бұрын

@@karlwithak1835 If some of the romance and art was allowed to be part of the "process" - the kid would have a store on Main Street, be elected to the city council, teach math classes, and have a garden the whole family enjoys working together to grow their own food...need I go on...

@banalucki Жыл бұрын

@@karlwithak1835 Once again - eons of misunderstandings based on poor reading skills - it's the LOVE OF MONEY, not money, itself - scheesh Did I hurt your whittle ittle feelings just now by pointing out that your whole snappy retort is an assumption...? All those tattoos everywhere and none of them are a "note to self" of the seven DEADLY sins - pride, greed, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony and sloth. Hate the sin, not the sinner. That's where throngs and throngs of indigenous human beings end up in agreement when they look at craven avarice becoming too big to fail. And the other mess with the vapid reading skills atheists have when it's about "religion" is this biggie - the original lesson as Jesus gave it was called, "How NOT to create dead end times." NUREMBERG 2.0 - Paper 54 - Urantia Book - "...Evolutionary man may have to contend for his material liberties with tyrants and oppressors on a world of sin and iniquity or during the early times of a primitive evolving sphere, but not so on the morontia worlds or on the spirit spheres..." Yup, always have to set some boundaries - mano et mano. You can't use humanity as a potato battery for mining bitcoins, sorry - stuff's gonna keep getting blown up...

@Habiyeru Жыл бұрын

I don't know if its a cultural thing or not, but my family and I always take our free hotel toiletries with us whenever we check out as a souvenir. In my bathroom cabinet, there's at least a dozen toiletries from each country we've visited in the past 10 years. It's useful whenever a guest comes to sleep over and needs their own toothbrush/soap.

@freemagicfun Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I thought everyone took them. 😎

@francesscott333 Жыл бұрын

@@freemagicfun me too!

@Stephaniewashere Жыл бұрын

Is that what poor people do

@ariab4075 Жыл бұрын

@@Stephaniewashere my family is wealthy and i do it

@Radegastly Жыл бұрын

@@Stephaniewashere I do it because I like travel sized items and think they're adorable.

@bonnie2057 Жыл бұрын

I love that you all are donating the recycled soap it's a good way to help others and make a difference

@maestoso47 Жыл бұрын

You don’t have to package them in plastic. Edit: I myself have purchased soap without any packaging. Or what I’ve received was in a paper box with wax lining. Many options besides plastic.

@goosenotmaverick1156 Жыл бұрын

"let's send more plastic waste to the areas of the world already struggling with cleanliness, sounds good!" Smh 🙄

@dreadpirateroberts7532 Жыл бұрын

True but they are not making much money and it’s more expensive to not use plastic. What they are doing is good, give it more time to get all of the logistics situated.

@sipati2 Жыл бұрын

Lol as i watched thought the same. He here is some sanitary stuff carefully placed in a wasteful packaging. Just use recycled paper or smth.

@pappi8338 Жыл бұрын

@@dreadpirateroberts7532 They've had 73 million delivered bars of soap to figure out their logistics. You're saying they need more time to figure it out when they have an industrial level complex?

@aj-sz8mu Жыл бұрын

Lol you seriously think that plastic is going to be the concern of someone who don't even have enough money to buy soap? Plastic is cheap and it will keep the soap from getting wet. In the Philippines, we put everything in tiny plastic bags. We don't use foam containers, or paper plates or ziplocs. We have plastic bags for soup, milk, everything. Putting them in metal/glass are heavy and will cost more than the recycled soap, paper would be dumb and impractical.

@tn9274 Жыл бұрын

nowdays rarely see soap bar anymore in the hotel room. most of them provide liquid soap in wall mounted container. some still provide in small bottles.

@triparadox.c Жыл бұрын

Ok, that makes sense. I just commented that too. Like, they (hotels) would save so much money by not throwing away like 95% of soap.

@Pelayum Жыл бұрын

@Chanaly Most likely are

@ladykemma3 Жыл бұрын

Plastic waste

@zuflu Жыл бұрын

@@ladykemma3 why? you can just keep the same bottle of soap for years, you just have to clean it the outside, which is barely any additional work

@EleyReiHer 3 ай бұрын

This is a noble act! It is nice to see how humanity still blossoming 🌸🌼 and thriving within this cruel (and individualistic) era

@draggonsgate Жыл бұрын

My gramma used to keep an empty coffee can full of used bars of soap. About once a year, she would take them all, grate them down, pour boiling water over it and let it sit for an hour or so til cooled off a bit. She them stir and mix until it was about the consistency of warm pudding and pour into a cake pan to let cool, cut and wrap in wax paper. I did the same up until a few years ago when I switched to cheapo shampoo to use as shampoo and bodywash.

@jinchoung Жыл бұрын

actually, they should just have soap shave dispensers in the hotels... so you have a completely new piece of soap loaded into a spring loaded dispenser. the dispenser holds the soap against an enclosed shaving blade. guest grabs a handle on the outside and pulls down drawing the blade across the soap and it dispenses in the guest's a hand a sliver of soap. no wasted soap, no ick factor.

@EsoteriaHealing Жыл бұрын

That's a nice product to design.

@Chahlie Жыл бұрын

I actually have a product in my work bag, it's about the size of a dental floss thing and has little mini sheets of soap. Years ago I was waiting for such a thing and someone came out with one for laundry detergent. I like having my own little soap dispenser rather than the grubby ones in public bathrooms.

@cherylm2C6671 Жыл бұрын

There are many ways to disguise a hand up. Once past the 'boil in lye water' stage, it's just getting a product out the door to do a job. Somewhat must come from the recipients, who could be anybody. Gratitude shows that someone paid attention and asked questions. One use for soap slivers is to prevent mosquitoes from polluting gardening water. Thank you for posting this video.

@funnyfarm5555 Жыл бұрын

I used to travel for business before I retired and when I was going to spend more than one night in a hotel I would leave a note telling the cleaning service that I would be using the same bar of soap all during my stay. When I left I took the soap home to add to my own recycled soap. Hang it on a Hay string by outside bury hydrant faucet where I wash up prior to coming in the house or if need to wash hands in between tasks on the farm.

@beyourselfbrave4115 Жыл бұрын

I use the tiny leftover solid soap to mark lines on fabrics, I am a dressmaker and soap wipes quicker than chalk on fabrics. 😍🥰

@Mordecrox Жыл бұрын

As a Brazilian I'm appalled at the size of these spent soap bars. Even the best hotels (one such I keep as a souvenir) have their soap bars much smaller than what is presented and most are just a sliver designed for one or two baths.

@shoemakerleve9 Жыл бұрын

I'm appalled at the size of your small soap bars! /s

@pablovegas743 Жыл бұрын

I'm not even Brazilian, and I've never even that big of a soap bar in a hotel. I usually see those small circular soaps, that are good for like 5 hand washings.

@DoctorJammer Жыл бұрын

What does being Brazilian have to do with anything?

@Mordecrox Жыл бұрын

@@DoctorJammer just a bit of perspective, third world country, whatever gibs there are, people will take. Usually hotels leave two "bars" per person/day, seems to be the usual to use one, take the other home, and if on an extended stay, try to make the most use of each bar and take a handful home. If they look and smell nice one unit might even be kept as an actual souvenir. I speak in terms of blue and lower white collar employees getting sent for training and having -most- of their expenses paid by the company. Just waltzing around Big City in the mean time, especially if meals are not included, can still be expensive so save where you can and thanks for the free soap. Mmm it smells nice.

@brewely Жыл бұрын

Brazil is the best that’s why😊

@deathdrone6988 Жыл бұрын

Went to a hotel in Perth and they had 3-4 different hair and body products in dispensers that were bolted to the wall to prevent tampering. Pretty smart if I do say so.

@globalgeode4363 Жыл бұрын

it's also way cheaper in the long run, better from a buissness standpoint.

@TheLadyaec Жыл бұрын

I just saw this too but then I thought of everyone pumping and holding whilst scrubbing their behind ..

@juliebaker6969 Жыл бұрын

Unless you happen to be someone like me who is allergic to detergent. Liquid soaps are almost always detergent based instead of soap based. And they AlSO have problematic ingredients like fragrances, and in MY case aloe

@_w_w_ Жыл бұрын

@@juliebaker6969 Not really. The vendors spend a lot of money on R&D to make sure the ingredients are hypoallergenic and free of a lot of things. This resulted in middling products that aren't very good at anything they do. For example, if you look at Hyatt's products, it's soooo darn simple in ingredients that most would deem them "low-tech low-end" products. All this, to satisfy folks like you.

@juliebaker6969 Жыл бұрын

@@_w_w_ Two of the things I'm allergic to are detergent and aloe. Aloe is hypoallergenic, and detergent is the basis of virtually ALL liquid personal care cleansing products. And I never ASKED them to try to cater to me, I'd be much happier with an old fashioned bar of Ivory soap like hotels USED to carry. Personally, I take responsibility for my OWN allergies, and bring my OWN personal care products to a hotel. And since I already paid for them and they'll be thrown out anyway, I take the provided individual products home and donate them to the food pantry or homeless shelter. They hand out personal care product bags that include soap, toothbrush, toothpaste, razor, Q-tips, comb and TP.

@blondspaghettie2613 11 ай бұрын

My parents take there own hand soaps and stuff to hotel but always ask for extra at the front desk and they take that extra soap and toiletries to the homeless shelters now mum goes to the hotels once a month and gets the leftover toiletries cleans them and does this and she even has several other ppl do this and some of the hotels in our area are grateful for this

@venom5809 Жыл бұрын

I love that they take this soap and give it to people in need. 👏

@ahotdj07 Жыл бұрын

Pretty amazing. I did often think what do hotels do with the used soap. I assumed throw them away. I am happy to hear that these two companies are giving so much back to the community.

@regeinaneimar7342 Жыл бұрын

Yes indeed, they are giving back a lot ! A lot of plastic waste as their packaging, to be exact.

@mitchystuff Жыл бұрын

@@regeinaneimar7342 and soap, which they can't really afford. It needs to come in something and this is better than nothing. This does quite literally save lives though

@hotfudgecake Жыл бұрын

Well most hotels do throw it away but it's nice to see some trying to do better

@middleclassic Жыл бұрын

I love seeing videos like this. Whatever it is being talked about the solution on hand is never perfect. But at least someone is trying to make a difference. It’s incredibly inspiring for me. It truly makes me want to make a difference.

@WorldifySanity Жыл бұрын

Except what they are doing is totally ineffective and causes a lot of pollution all by itself.

@mitchystuff Жыл бұрын

@@WorldifySanity pollution like how? It prevents people from dying

@Chahlie Жыл бұрын

I was a resort housekeeper, and we always recycled and we also always wondered just how they 'recycled' them. This was really interesting to see :)

@CreativeExpression101 Жыл бұрын

This is amazing . Anyone who hasnt had alot appreciate not having things go to waste. Everyone should have access to food, water, shelter and soap to stay clean. Beautiful 💜💜

@pramodm3540 Жыл бұрын

Supplying to prisons is another best idea. The packaging needed can be avoided to a great extent.

@--Skip-- Жыл бұрын

I too am a soap nerd. This is soooo refreshing to see used hotel soap into bars for homeless, refugee camps, the uber-poor, third-world countries, etc. Well done, Uni-bars & Clean-the-World!!

@exeledusprince9165 Жыл бұрын

Bars of soap are one of my favorite things in this world. Yeah I know its weird, but theres nothing more perfect and symmetrical than a beautiful brand new bar of soap, it's so pleasing.

@lindabrown0 Жыл бұрын

...........and the bigger the better.............

@corporeidad 3 ай бұрын

🫥

@fflk4 Жыл бұрын

GOOD VIDEO; EVERYONE NEEDS MORE THAN THEIR BASIC SALARY TO BE FINANCIALLY SECURED, THE BEST THING TO DO WITH YOUR MONEY S TO INVEST, MONEY LEFT IN SAVINGS ALVWAYS END UP USED WITH NO RETURNS.

@Bernd428 Жыл бұрын

You're right ma,

@Bernd428 Жыл бұрын

That is why I had to start forex trading 2months ago and now am making benefits from it

@Bernd428 Жыл бұрын

and I can even say she's the most sincere broker| have known.

@nwann753 Жыл бұрын

O'Yes I'm a living testimony of Miss Charity Combs

@Kjartan888 Жыл бұрын

Miss Charity Combs has changed my financial status for the best,

@diannedelledera3096 Жыл бұрын

Kudos to the people who sat with peelers to clean the soap! What an act of love and kindness for your fellow human. ❤️ I love reusing, recycling ♻️, repurposing! Another good place to donate hotel toiletries is Ronald McDonald House.

@TheLadyaec Жыл бұрын

Sure they did...

@shirleyedwards1490 Жыл бұрын

I love seeing what these organisations are doing. I'm sad to see recycled soap being handed out in plastic though. Cardboard or paper bags would be lovely to see. Well done for a brilliant initiative

@Ikajo Жыл бұрын

There are plastic bags made from sugar cane available, those can decompose without issue. I prefer using them myself when I need one.

@pencilhigh 10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for taking the extra steps to give back to communities that need the soap. 🤗

@shereajohnson7075 Жыл бұрын

I usually take my own body wash but hand soap I never do. This has really changed my perspective.. thanks for the video. 💗

@micheltibon6552 Жыл бұрын

What a "waste"! What an amazing initiative! I have the habit not to throw away those small bar slivers but to put them in a small plastic bowl on my wash table and use it to wash hands. I just seen a video where a lady melts and mould them in small form in the shape of a rose.

@bernardjameswilson Жыл бұрын

I've never had those. When the soap gets small enough it becomes pliable. I lather it up and I do the same with the new soap and stick them together and leave them to dry overnight.

@saratf Жыл бұрын

That reminds me of one time the local hotel donated thousands of bottles of shampoo, conditioner, and lotion in the small town I lived. I used that stuff for months!

@garcia207 Жыл бұрын

I remember as a kid when we would stay at a hotel, we would bring the used soap bars and shampoo and conditioner bottles home and use them. Nothing went to waste.

@jimoftehgray 3 ай бұрын

Didn’t think i’d see this video pop up on my KZfaq recommends list on my home page, usually its stupid videos 😂 but i’m glad this one popped up 🙏 nice to see that there are companies dedicated to less waste and more recycling, especially if this is something that can help sanitation in less fortunate places 🙏❤️

@scottm.9382 Жыл бұрын

This is very interesting and I’m impressed by the amount of knowledge and passion that these folks possess. Kudos to them. This is one hell of a project

@tashalynn29 Жыл бұрын

I travel a lot and ended up with tons of hotel toiletries. What I didn't use I'd share with others. The bar soaps were made into liquid soap. I got a blender just for the purpose and would shave the soaps into flakes. I added glycerin, a little water, and some fragrance oil, blend it up, and put it in liquid soap dispenser at home.

@TheDawdoug4 Жыл бұрын

That’s genius! If I traveled more I’d definitely do that.

@tashalynn29 Жыл бұрын

@@TheDawdoug4 it definitely helped. Family goes through lots of soap because they garden and have a small green house.

@chrisblue961 Жыл бұрын

I watched the whole video but I don’t think I could use it. In my head I would be constantly thinking someone used this before.

@jaymerriam4112 Жыл бұрын

I never throw away bar soap. At home, I use a bar until it is very thin, like everyone. Before my shower, I wet it and put it in the soap dish while I shower with a new bar. When done, I physically mash the old thin bar onto the new one. As it dries, the old bar solidifies onto the new one and I begin the procedure again. I have not thrown out soap in 50 years. Hotel use has always made me feel guilty but less so now.

@jayasmrmore3687 Жыл бұрын

Take hotel soap home

@altoonaflyer Жыл бұрын

Glad to know I’m not the only one that does this. A few generations ago, the slivers were saved and put in a press together to create a “new” bar. Younger folks have been trained to want liquid soaps, but I still prefer bar in the shower.

@joylox Жыл бұрын

I always preferred liquid soaps as I find bar soaps leave a strange texture on my skin, and I mostly use bar soap for laundry (Sunlight bars are a great stain remover), but I'm glad they don't all go to waste. Usually I keep little bottles after staying in a hotel as I use them camping, or travelling elsewhere, but lately I've been bringing my own shampoo and soap to hotels everywhere I go as I'm allergic to perfume, and a lot of places use scented products. I'd love to see things become more hypoallergenic and friendly to people and our oceans where a lot of waste ends up.

@chuchuchuchia Жыл бұрын

Soap bars always made my skin feel way too dry and squeaky

@_w_w_ Жыл бұрын

Yup, and this video doesn't talk about the soap scum remover hotel uses to clean off the countertop or soap dish.

@rp9674 Жыл бұрын

Use Dove

@WhenDoesTheVideoActuallyStart Жыл бұрын

@@rp9674 Yep, this.

@nahor88 Жыл бұрын

I was waiting for someone to comment this... I agree the hotel soaps, no matter what brand, ALWAYS leave your skin weirdly dry, and with a texture similar to jackfruit sap if you've ever encountered that (its gross). It's affordable to just buy dove soap bars in bulk and bring them yourself, or just get travel sized liquid soap. Better yet, if the hotels just struck a deal with Dove to offer their soap.

@Bonbon-C Жыл бұрын

This made me smile from ear to ear! This is just amazing!

@anna-lenameijer9942 Жыл бұрын

Well thought and worked out. Every little act of recycling makes a huge impact in our world.

@VikramSingh-kq2bx Жыл бұрын

This video really left me conflicted at first, on the one hand it seemed unhygienic but on the flipside these companies are saving lives in third world countries. So really well done to them. It's funny how blind we become towards the suffering of people not living as privileged lives as us.

@Burnlit1337 Жыл бұрын

I remember around 2015 when I went to Hawaii into a Marriott Hotel. When we checked in, the employees there told us to not throw away the soap bar and other toiletries after we use it. I first thought it was because they didn't want us to take it, but one of the maids clarify that they recycle all used of it, the bottles and the soap. That that don't really care if we steal them.

@skiphopflipflopdripdrop Жыл бұрын

Obviously they wouldn’t??

@WhenDoesTheVideoActuallyStart Жыл бұрын

"Steal" lmao

@EugWanker Жыл бұрын

When I was a kid in the 1970s, planes and some other places would provide single-use personal bar soap packets. They were simple, just very small wax paper envelopes with bar soap shavings. No liquid soap with wasteful plastic bottles, and no shared bar soap.

@diane1390 Жыл бұрын

I am impressed by the work you're doing. I'd love to see more people help you.

@samspencer7765 Жыл бұрын

I'm really surprised they scrape the bars given how laborious it was, I'd have thought you could lay the bars out on a metal mesh, dunk that mesh in a trough of near boiling water to both sterilise the surface, and melt off the outermost layer, then rinse and dry the bars. Then you can crush and combine the bars as normal to form them into new bars.

@breesbonnets6798 Жыл бұрын

Your idea sounds a lot easier than all that scraping🙌🏽

@pjacobsen1000 Жыл бұрын

This all sounds very nice, and I'm sure those recyclers have the best of intentions, but I have some questions: A: What is the impact on the climate and environment of just throwing out the soap? B: What is the impact on the climate and environment of recycling the soap and shipping it overseas? C: I have spent considerable time in developing countries, and soap is readily available at low cost in all but the most remote villages. I have never heard people in developing countries mentioning that they didn't have access to soap or lack money to buy it. So is a lack of soap really a problem in those countries? D: When you import and hand out soap for free in any society, what impact does that have on local businesses that try to make a living off of making and selling soap? I am skeptical at the utility and benefit of these initiatives. Thinking you're doing a good deed, and actually doing a good deed can be two very different things.

@theotheleo6830 Жыл бұрын

It's all a cover for a CIA program.

@_w_w_ Жыл бұрын

Very good questions! Also, the carbon footprint for shipping through the entire logistics process and remanufacturing process. The best way to reduce this type of waste is cut down the size of hotel soaps, and it has been done successfully in Asia for YEARS. Americans and Europeans are just wasteful.

@juanitadudley4788 Жыл бұрын

D. Interesting! I saw a video on Tom's shoes. That very point was in the video. Local shoemakers couldn't compete with getting free shoes from Tom's.

@BumbleDee805 Жыл бұрын

I had immediate questions myself. The amount of resources required: energy, water, and human, don't seem worth it to me. I may have missed something, but how are these companies making money to run their plants and pay their employees if they give their products away? I presume they also sell them back to hotels, as well. A lot of people bring their own products, so other than soap for washing hands, hotels shouldn't even put products in the room unless the guest asks for it - and then keep it minimal. I am also thinking - what good is a bar of soap if the water people are using is highly contaminated. Washing yourself off with pathogens doesn't sound helpful, so this only seems useful to areas that have clean water.

@theotheleo6830 Жыл бұрын

@@BumbleDee805 If contaminated water is all some people have, then they're drinking and cooking with it as well. So why not wash in it? The alternative is to be a filthy smelly outcast.

@TeclaTorta Жыл бұрын

This video was so refreshing. First time in a while that I came to a video ready to leave perplexed and left with another mindset and positive.

@madgroundhog8020 Жыл бұрын

I think it's great ppl are giving the poor's used soap.❤️

@MichaelChengSanJose Жыл бұрын

That’s why I take home my used hotel soaps to save that whole process. I haven’t bought any soap bars in 20 years.

@MichaelChengSanJose Жыл бұрын

@Karl with a K Well somebody is being a loser.

@MichaelChengSanJose Жыл бұрын

@Karl with a K Still trying to grow a brain with the comebacks huh.

@MichaelChengSanJose Жыл бұрын

@Karl with a K Yeah, I can see that your brain never grew beyond pea size like everyone else.

@7polar7 Жыл бұрын

actually the best channel in existence bro these videos are so entertaining fr

@jonrobbin170 Жыл бұрын

After Primitive Technology

@7polar7 Жыл бұрын

@@jonrobbin170 this solos I’m afraid

@TonyRueb Жыл бұрын

I went to a boundary Waters outfitter and had a shower after returning from The wilderness and they had hand soap pumps full of body wash shampoo and conditioner. The last time I stayed at a courtyard Marriott in downtown Seattle they had the same thing. Although I am very glad they can help poverty stricken areas with this program, but from an environmental perspective we should always be focused on reducing consumption first (soap dispensers), reusing (using the first bar until it's nearly gone), and only then recycling.

@blackice9032 Жыл бұрын

Indeed no more bars going into the landfill but way more plastic containers and dispensers..that's a unique way to tackle soap waste.

@BiancaRoughFin Жыл бұрын

Im curious, cant the Soap just be heated up and molten again to sterilize then go through a filter to remove any impurity before being cooled down and cut into small bricks before being given/sold again?

@ahhigiveup Жыл бұрын

no it has to be grated and softened but it wont ever be liquid again.

@Sydroo1969 Жыл бұрын

Great idea. I usually take home the unused soap and or shampoo.

@georgewaddill7952 4 ай бұрын

I recycle all my soaps also. Thanks to a good handful of hotel soaps, previous recycles, and a couple single bars bought here and there along the way, I haven't had to buy any significant amount of soap in more than 20 years. That stuff endlessly recycles until it gets used up and washes down the drain. I use old ice trays to dry it in. Makes perfect little shower-sized cubes.

@ephraimphilemon4130 Жыл бұрын

Full of respect for your heart.

@Nataliah3r3 Жыл бұрын

Who wastes a perfectly good bar of soap! Lol I use mine till there ain’t no more! But awesome thing they are doing!🙏🏼

@IntegraDIY Жыл бұрын

they say hotel soaps.. people usually use it once and leave it by the sink or tub after checking out

@Alucard45000 Жыл бұрын

Are you living at a hotel?

@TheBooban Жыл бұрын

@@IntegraDIY yeah, hotels should use liquid soap dispensers.

@baepy Жыл бұрын

I will use mine till it is the size of a sim card lol

@Nataliah3r3 Жыл бұрын

@@Alucard45000 I take the hotel soap always lol I paid for the room I’m taking the soap

@DrBrunoRecipes Жыл бұрын

Amazing 👌🏻👌🏻I carry my soap home 😊

@OhKaye786 Жыл бұрын

I'm from the Philippines and this is the first time I've heard thet we needed soap

@yueqiu1837 Ай бұрын

Love these companies ❤ Now I take the soaps in hotels with me and donate back to our community. Homeless people need these. I bring my own soap when travel. 😀

@-Window-Licker- Жыл бұрын

This is why you bring your own soap when you travel

@wiewioraa8 10 ай бұрын

I am cheap. I always take the soap and other stuff I get at the hotel. My mom works as cleaner at the hotel and she doesn't throw away stuff either. She brings the soap or half toilet paper rolls(yes, they have to bin it too ;/) home and uses them. And also I remember in the past, that if we had bar of soap that was almost gone my mum would use it for washing clothes.

@jenniferthomas5305 Жыл бұрын

Always inspiring when people care so much about other people 👣💞 🌎😇. If these companies sold their soap I'd happily buy it to support them and their efforts

@gutz1981 Жыл бұрын

Can we just get an hour long video of the sound of all that soap from the first second just falling off the belt and into a box? That right there is soothing as.

@hfar_in_the_sky Жыл бұрын

I love this idea. I always felt guilty about using hotel bar soap if I was only staying for a few days because I knew I'd never use it all. And honestly this just seems practical

@TonyRueb Жыл бұрын

I am starting to see hotels that have soap dispensers like you'd use for hands in the showers full of body wash, shampoo, and the conditioner.

@Richard-dd3mm Жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I am thinking when I live in a hotel. I just really hate to throw them away but there are too many of them. What i do is to skip body wash and just use soap to use it as much as I can.

@laughingoutloud5742 3 ай бұрын

It's a brilliant idea and I hope they keep it going

@richardrichford2617 Жыл бұрын

I love that there helping the planet and poor people.

@crbswiss Жыл бұрын

i've always taken my used hotel soap with me and use it at the next hotel without opening that second soap with the hope it'll just be placed in a room for the next person. i use it until it is gone and then finally open a new soap at whatever place i need it, renewing the cycle.

@crbswiss Жыл бұрын

@Karl with a K how is what I do bad? I don't unpack the soap and don't touch it other than maybe place it to the side away from the sink if it's in a splash zone. How is that unsafe for people to use???

@boy638 Жыл бұрын

Instead of soap bars, why not tiny soap pellets (pea size or smaller), so that one hand wash only uses one soap pallet. Soap bars in hotels never made sense. Even if I stayed for a week I won't be able to use up a whole bar.

@boy638 Жыл бұрын

@@tinymito Soap bars can also look like white chocolate. We don't see that as an issue. Mostly because they taste horrible lol.

@cherylm2C6671 Жыл бұрын

That is a good idea, the soap as one-use pellets or 'papers'. A possible dispenser could use soap 'dots' on a tape that advanced automatically.

@BumbleDee805 Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same- dissolvable soap "sheets" in a dispenser. I remember the dry soap dispensers. I recall the soap being blue and really grainy. It didn't foam much. Heaven knows what it was made out of. There are hands-free soap dispensers in bathrooms in airports, sports arenas, etc. If using dispensers were high risk for contamination and a public health concern, they wouldn't be used in these venues. So I think they would be OK in a hotel room.

@Chahlie Жыл бұрын

I have such a thing, called 'SeatoSummit', it's like 1" by 2" flakes of soap, 50 to a packet. The container is plastic, but is recyclable. You can dissolve it into water or use as is.

@CutFromADifferentCloth7 Жыл бұрын

Thank You, I always wondered about this... Great Job, this was interesting!

@patricialong5767 Жыл бұрын

This is simply wonderful!

@myjiminparker Жыл бұрын

ok, but the refillable liquid soap bottles can be of glass? and that glass can be sanitized by heat, and it becomes reusable that way plastic waste can be reduced.

@goosenotmaverick1156 Жыл бұрын

I'm sure the cost difference as well as losses considered due to breakage, having to clean it up, possible injuries and lawsuits. Sadly it may not have been "fiscally responsible" to go with glass, albeit you are correct and it would be better overall

@somethingsomething404 Жыл бұрын

They don’t do this. Marriott doesn’t even refill the bottles, they just replace them. It’s not about being green it’s about less staff needed to deliver soap

@eastcoastmusicmachine7989 Жыл бұрын

Glass in a shower could be a liability for a hotel; you can’t even have glass at a hotel pool

@TheLadyaec Жыл бұрын

Glass is heavy though so more fuel cost. Places like hotel can recycle plastic easier than anywhere.

@specialestness Жыл бұрын

@@somethingsomething404I recently stayed in a Holiday Inn Express that had JR Watkins soap and you could definitely see the age on them. The water source in that town is a bit heavy in iron and they were stained.

@mackocloud924 Жыл бұрын

"I was blown away by the gift" they really had to get commentary on this lol

@Squish-TheUrbanScribe Жыл бұрын

Beautiful and thoughtful work!

@henryjoshual1848 Жыл бұрын

Great idea.....ship the soap to countries that have never heard of soap and have no running water to use the soap. BRILLIANT !!!

@Velktron Жыл бұрын

I do a small scale version of this process with the old and thinned out soap bars at home -grate them into flakes and press them into a larger bar/shape. Mini-cake/donut moulds with a hole in the middle are particularly fun to use!

@escobarines Жыл бұрын

At home we actually just press and work old soap slivers into new bars (like with water around the edges) until they merge somewhat! As you use it they merge even more 🤷‍♀️

@npursuit Жыл бұрын

My husband leaves behind large bars before getting a new one. I need to try this.

@pccrit2171 Жыл бұрын

I'd love to start a soap recycling plant myself. This does seem like a great initiative with a very wide reach.

@DeeJayram0s Жыл бұрын

Do it, that would be great.

@eljangoolak Жыл бұрын

You must have hundreds of thousands of dollars sitting on the side...

@user-bn8tb7kl1r 3 ай бұрын

Awesome idea sounds great to me !!!❤

@alberto.camposs 10 ай бұрын

Very impressive! Next step could be reduce all that plastic involved, such a waste. There are many alternative solution for packaging. 🌎

@gillianbc Жыл бұрын

Most people take their own toiletries to hotels. It would be better if they stopped putting them in rooms automatically, but provided them free at reception on request.

@the_phuckery_is_real7252 Жыл бұрын

Exactly

@bendenisereedy7865 Жыл бұрын

Housekeeping staff would not be happy if hotels took away their perk of free toiletries.

@ittimjones Жыл бұрын

Was ALWAYS told bar soap was NOT a good hand washing soap. Just did some research. Seems like most sites just want you to wash your hands, and don't care what you use. However there are a few that actually differentiate. In short bar soap is better for the environment, but liquid soap is better for your hands.

@adamgh0 Жыл бұрын

That's like saying liquid detergent does a better job cleaning your clothes than the powdered kind in a box. Bar soap and liquid soap are the same thing as long as the bar soap is the antibacterial variety.

@KailuaChick Жыл бұрын

Plain old soap and water is better than antibacterial soap on a daily basis. The chemicals responsible for the antibacterial properties are too harsh and encourage bacterial resistance.

@adamgh0 Жыл бұрын

@@KailuaChick That's like saying the chemicals in Bactine are responsible for bacterial resistance.

@theotheleo6830 Жыл бұрын

Why is bar soap better for the environment? I always refill my liquid dispensers.

@ittimjones Жыл бұрын

@@theotheleo6830 internet says that you use less product with bar soap, which makes it better for the environment. However, liquid soap doesn't grow bacteria and often contains moisturizers too.

@vickiesmith3021 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely fantastic 😍. Thank you so very very much Uni Soap and Clean The World.

@capeman10 Жыл бұрын

You are an amazing Craftsman. You are meticulous in step by step repairs. 🏆

@_w_w_ Жыл бұрын

I have been a frequent business traveler for 2 decades, and the US and Europe are always way behind when it comes to conservation and it still does no matter how hard it tries to be "green". Asian hotels have switched to tiny soap years ago, about 1/8 size of a typical western hotel soap - they even perfected the shape and texture, so you still have a good grip. Recently, Asian hotels have switched to easy-to-actuate liquid soap dispenser. This video talks about soap cleans more than liquid soap. But the video conveniently forget to talk about one thing - the harsh chemical cleaner the hotel uses to remove soap scum from countertop or soap dish. As a frequent traveler, I rather the hotel spend a few more cents on better bulk-container products, then waste it on ineffective "green" initiatives.

@jacobbo-lee6107 Жыл бұрын

Imagine not having water and someone giving you a bar of soap

@Groundedsquirrel Жыл бұрын

Was thinking the same thing!

@ooooneeee Жыл бұрын

IKR

@bloqk16 9 ай бұрын

In some regions of the world water is a scarce resource.

@chargermopar Жыл бұрын

I have been making my own soap for decades. Since I do property cleanouts I often found soap bars put in mattresses and furniture. Those get shaved and mixed in my soaps. As for plastic I collect it to this day to make Diesel.

@geneva760 Жыл бұрын

Great news. CHEERS from AUSTRALIA.

@charlesp3580 Жыл бұрын

Kinda lost me at donating bar soap to countries / places that don't have access to running water. Also I can't remember the last time I saw a hotel soap bar that big.

@taritakuma8895 Жыл бұрын

Sending soaps to developing countries is great and all, but if those people are going to rinse their hands with contaminated water, the soap is not going to make a difference

@Tempirance1 8 ай бұрын

Due to extreme sensitive skin I always bring my own lotions, soap, shampoo & conditioner. I never unwrap nor use the complimentary hygiene products hotels offer their guests. What this company is doing with recycling used soaps is a great thing. They're quite mindful with their manufacturing processes to recycle and deliver to those in need of clean hygiene products. They're on the right track with their innovation.