Easy Peasy Tip: Use Bar Soap!
By tinychoices | December 5, 2009
Instead of buying another plastic bottle of liquid hand soap, switch to bar soap instead. You’ll get much more bang for your buck: more actual soap and less liquefying ingredients; lower carbon footprint; far less packaging to toss away/recycle.
Another way to green this up even further is to seek out bar soap which is sold sans packaging– whether handmade by a local soapmaker or bought in a natural goods shop (one commonly found brand is the round-bar Sappo Hill).
If you find that you really just can’t/don’t want to give up your liquid hand soap, make your own liquid soap instead and keep refilling the perfectly functional pump bottle you already have!
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I’m soon buying a foaming hand soap dispenser so I can dilute my beloved Dr. Bronner’s peppermint soap, so that’s an option too. I just have to decide between buying a “real” dispenser or one with soap already in it to reuse. Foaming dispensers will make any liquid soap go a lot further, and I also love that Dr. Bronner’s uses recycled plastic for the bottles of their soap that I do buy.
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