Oatmeal Soap Recipe

Oatmeal Soap Recipe

If you have leftover soap slivers in the bathtub or sink, you can recycle them into this yummy new soap! Oatmeal has proven moisturizing benefits.

• Gather these ingredients: 1/2 cup oatmeal, 1/2 cup small soap pieces, 1 and 1/2 tablespoons cooking oil, 1 tablespoon water
• Put the soap slivers in a plastic bag and pound them into small chunks.
• Put chunks in a blender, add the oatmeal and pulse until grainy.
• Pour into a bowl and add the oil and water.
• Mix with your hands, removing any remaining bigger chunks of soap.
• Shape the mixture into a ball and let sit until hard, about two hours.
• Be sure to wash the blender thoroughly to remove the soap residue.

From The Old Farmer's Almanac (almanac.com)