Make Mrs. Meyer's Liquid Hand Soap

I like to be frugal...I found a recipe for making one of my favorite products: Mrs. Meyer's Soap bar into a whole gallon of liquid soap at a fraction of the cost. I tried it myself and happy with the results: Now I have lot's of soap to use for my refill bottles for hand soap and it's all purpose loveliness can be used as a body wash in the shower/bath. It worked so well that I thought I would share it with you.

Let's get started:

Gather your supplies~

Cheese grater (from the dollar store)

2 Tablespoons of Liquid Glycerin 

(found in the band aid section at any drugstore or grocery store)

1 - 8 oz bar of Mrs. Meyer's soap bar

1 gallon of water

Note* This recipe is not guaranteed to work with other bar soaps.

 If you can't find this particular soap you can find it here to order:

Mrs. Meyers Soap Bar

Choose your scent...Basil, Lavender, Lemon Verbena, and Geranium!

Step 1:

Grate the entire bar of soap

Step 2:

Fill a large pot with 1 gallon of distilled water and add the soap shavings.

Step 3:

Add 2 Tablespoons of liquid glycerin and turn the heat to medium/high and stir until the soap dissolves.

Step 4:

Leave it alone to cool for at least 10-12 hours. 

Step 5:

After it has cooled completely around 12 hours later it will harden and look like liquid soap.

Step 6:

If the soap is harder than it should be you can take some beaters and blend it while adding just a little bit of water until the consistency is more like liquid soap.

 Pour it into the 1 gallon water bottle you used and mark it Liquid Soap. I am storing mine in large mason jars.

Now you can refill your 12 ounce bottle of liquid soap (that cost $3.99) with your gallon of refill that cost around $4.99. That's some huge savings!!!

This is a fool proof project that results in huge savings.

1 bar of Mrs. Meyer's Bar Soap at $3.99

 produces over $50 worth of liquid hand soap!!! 

I'd say that's worth the time and little effort to make!

Note** The soap can be a snot-like consistency, 

gross description I know but it still works.

* Soap does not create a big lather. 

*Other bar soaps may not work...Try to find Mrs. Meyer's Bar

You can also try Target...They might have bars too!!

Enjoy!!!!!