Around the House : Make Your Soap Bigger

Bar soap has great lather, but when it shrinks it is hard to use and often ends up in a pile at the corner of the shower. Can those pieces be re-used?

Sure, simply toss your tiny piece of soap into the microwave and turn it on. You will find that your soap grows!

When you heat conventional soap in a microwave it expands. This is because the air and water within it. As the soap heats it softens and the pressure created by the pockets of air and water push through the soap and make it bigger. The end result is a lumpy bar, but it will be larger, and useable.