Foam Soap Refill

Submitted by jp mims

"Don't throw away your foam soap dispenser or spend extra on the refills when you run out. It's easy to make your own! This also works with shampoo."

 

• Ready In: 1min
• Ingredients: 2
• Yields: 1 bottle

ingredients

• 3 tablespoons liquid hand soap or 3 tablespoons Joy dishwashing soap
• 2⁄3 cup warm water

directions

1. Gently mix soap with water.
2. Do not shake.
3. Pour into foam soap dispenser.
4. Note: I used Dawn dishwashing liquid (apple blossom anti-bacterial soap) with great results.
5. I did a test run first using 1 tablespoon soap to 4 tablespoons water.

Reviews

[vbaker]

Works great! If after a few refills your pump gets gummed up and doesn't want to pump, just unscrew the pump, turn it upside down under warm running water and pump until all the gunk is pumped out. Wallah, works like new.

 

[Martha wanna-be Mel]

I attempted to come up with my own ratio years ago and failed miserably. I went foam soap refill CRAZY last night. I had a big bottle of refill with a tiny bit left and filled up one bathroom. I then made an entire bottle in the refill to use at a later date. I made a dawn foam for the kitchen. I held on to my kid's foam pumps, cleaned them out and made a shampoo foam and a body wash foam for her and a baby wash foam for the baby. Then I used my expensive facewash that I'm supposed to lather in my hands first anyway and used it last night. It was AWESOME!!! Thank you so much jp for the right ratio and the trick of using warm/hot water (my mistake before too using cold).

 

[Vyrianna]

When I came across this recipe I had to try it. My husband loves Dial Foaming soap, but I have been finding it too drying on my hands. (Since having my daughter, my hands dry out more frequently, but I think it's because I wash my hands so much more frequently now.) I used Dr. Bronner's Lavender Castile Soap and it works like a dream. The foam is somewhat limp I guess is the best way to describe it, but it could be our hard water. Next time I'm going to try just a little bit more soap and see how that works. UPDATE: I have found that if you use distilled water instead of tap it doesn't cloud up and seems to foam even better, especially if you have hard water like we do.

 

[stephfunk]

My husband said this was the best soap we have ever had. He told me to keep buying this brand! :)<br/>So easy; I use filtered fridge water and heat it for 30 seconds, add my dawn, and stir gently. Love it! I used to have to buy a new soap about every week to ten days (three kids use a lot); this saves me so much money!

 

[wggmn3]

Just remember: do NOT use soap that is allegedly ANTIBIOTIC; when it gets into our water it kills anything that grows...also it apparently doesn't work; it has to be on your hands much longer than the time you spend washing them...