Cut Your Soap Costs & Add Fun to Hand Washing

The new cool thing is foaming soap.  You press down on the soap dispenser and what looks like a bottle of liquid comes out foam ready to wash and scrub your hands with.

You just need one pump to get a whole handful of foam.  Liquid soaps make us want to give the bottle a few pumps usually wasting lots of soap.

Here is a quick trick I have been doing since before I even had kids to save on soap costs.

I buy the Bath & Body Works foaming soap.  Once the soap is all used up I go out and buy a huge refill bottle of the generic liquid hand soap.  You can even get it in anti bacterial.  Target usually has a pretty good deal.  You might spend $4 for 4-7 years of liquid hand soap for your home.

Fill your soap bottle about 1/2 with cool-cold water.  then fill the rest of the bottle up with the liquid soap leaving space at the top.  Replace the lid and screw it on tight.  You may want to do this over the sink because you may have added too much liquid soap causing an overflow.

Then gently shake/swirl the bottle mixing the water with the soap.  Allow it to sit for a few minutes then give it a few pumps to get the foam moving.  You should now have a full bottle of foaming soap, and you can keep reusing the bottle over and over again.

Look for deals at Bath and Body works where you can get the bottles for under $5 each.  They also make great gifts if you need to buy 3 to get the deal.