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Hack Your Soap!

I'm a fan of the newer foaming type of hand soap. It's probably a fad but I like that it's easier to spread around my hands and isn't nearly as viscous.

The other day I saw on instructables.com a tutorial on how to refill your foaming hand soap with regular soap.

This is perfect since I have a 2 gallon jug of regular hand soap that I bought at Sam's Club about 5 years ago that still almost full. Who on earth needs that much hand soap? Let me just say that places like Costco and Sam's Club make people make irrational decisions.

"Honey, let's get this industrial sized box of paper clips. It's a 750,000 count box, but look how cheap the unit price is!"

So all this to say that I tried to refill my foaming soap with regular soap and it worked! The foaming secret is that the dispense injects air into the soap. Just fill up the old foaming dispenser with about 1/5 regular soap and the rest with plain old tap water. Put the cap back on and shake vigorously for a minute.

The soap and water should become a less viscous homogeneous mix and work perfectly.

This makes me wonder... why are people paying more for watered down soap? I guess it's the novelty of the foam.

Watered down Dial brand soap in a foaming dispenser: