Bar soap afficionados, this one’s for you!
Whether you champion the bar soap because of cost, packaging, travel convenience or availability, this video will help you use Dr. Bronner’s Pure-Castile Bar Soap for almost every purpose as the Pure-Castile Liquid Soap.
Using the Pure-Castile Bar Soap for household cleaning takes a few extra steps. However, I know there are those of you out there whose priorities will gladly swap the extra time.
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his video, “The Many Magical Uses of Bar Soap,” originally aired as a Facebook Live on the Going Green page April 21, 2022. Watch and learn how to grate, chop, and blend the Castile Bar Soap to use it for all manner of green cleaning - dishes, laundry, and an All-Purpose Spray for cleaning hard surfaces such as countertops and toilets.
Liquifying the Castile bar soap is difficult. That bar wants to stay a bar, which in most circumstances is good. You want your bar of soap to stay solid from first unwrap to final sliver. Who wants a mushy mess on their shower shelf?
The entire time I was trying to liquify the bar, I felt that the bar was fighting back.
The bar soap is not directly a solid version of the liquid soap. They’re very close but those few differences, which are designed to make the bar soap hard, make the bar soap very difficult to liquify. It doesn’t melt. (Word to the wise: don’t microwave bar soap.) It doesn’t dissolve readily. However, dissolve it I finally did.
Soap Cream
What I produced I have named “soap cream.” It is a white, foamy, thick gel, which thickens further the longer it sits. As I said, it’s ever trying to get back to a solid bar. This liquified bar soap is not the same consistency as the Dr. Bronner’s Liquid Castile Soap. However, it still cleans well and disperses in warm water so that it can be diluted for all manner of household applications.
Solid Bar Soap
There are many uses for which you can simply use the whole bar. You can rub your washcloth or your toothbrush or your dish brush directly on the bar of soap. I do recommend sectioning off a piece of soap to dedicate for toothbrushing.
Grated Bar Soap
Grate bar soap for such uses such as laundry or a foot soak. Keep grated bar soap in an air-tight container. One bar makes about 3 cups (720 mL) of grated bar soap.
Check out my blog post, Bar Soap Dilutions Cheat Sheet, for a full list of ways to use the Castile Bar Soap for house and body care and a printable Usage Cheat Sheet: www.lisabronner.com/bar-soap-dilutions-cheat-sheet/. There are even more ways to use the Castile Bar Soap here: www.lisabronner.com/the-unexpected-versatility-of-bar-soap/.
For more tips, visit my blog, “Going Green with Lisa Bronner” at www.lisabronner.com/. Shop Dr. Bronner’s products at shop.drbronner.com/.