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grate a single 4oz bar of your favorite soap

boil a gallon* of water

slowly add the grated soap to the water, stirring constantly

stir well, until soap is completely dissolved

let cool, stirring occasionally to prevent it from setting up

using a funnel**, pour an appropriate amount into a liquid hand soap dispenser, to use in the kitchen or bathroom

store the rest in a well-cleaned gallon milk jug

congrats, you’ve made a gallon of perfectly good hand soap! i made a gallon of this soap at the beginning of the year, and at this rate it’ll last me well into next year. it’s a fraction of the cost of store-bought, and it uses a fraction of the packaging too, meaning less waste! this also cuts down on the carbon emissions of shipping (any time you buy a liquid product, most of the weight & volume is just water, making it unnecessarily bulky and heavy to transport. if you can buy a dehydrated, solid, or powdered version, you should.) 

*a gallon per bar has given me a pretty thick and gelatinous liquid soap. you may be able to get away with more water if you’d prefer a runnier soap. the consistency may also depend on what kind of bar soap you start with

**if you don’t have a kitchen funnel, i highly recommend getting both a small-spouted one for pouring into very narrow bottles and a wide-spouted canning funnel for jars. the latter has been probably the most unexpectedly useful kitchen accessory i’ve ever gotten.