Musing a Sliver of Soap
The demise of a bar of soap is a soapsliver. I put soap and sliver together because a soapsliver is a name for what is left of a bar of soap when it becomes to small to use comfortable with out concentrating the fact it is in your hand and it is being used to soap yourself. Soapslivers all seem to be shaped the same, except for the novelty bar that starts in the shape of a fruit, vegetable, sea shell or anything else that is not shaped like a bar. I like the novelty bar, I like to look at them and I think everyone else does.
A friend of mine has a pretty soup bowl full of them on the water closet lid. I have noticed they all seem to be there every time I must go. To my eye all soapslivers from bar soap have the same form, like a very small surfboard or skateboard. When a bar of soap becomes a soapsliver I do not know. I think it has something to do with the size hand of the user and how dexterous the hand is, or how frugal the user.
When I throw a soapsliver in the trash I often thought and wondered what use could be made of it. There is tons of soapslivers tossed in the trash daily. Imagine if all the soapslivers generate in the United Stated in one year in one place, we would lose a State. After thinking occasional about the problem, I decided to see if I could make a bar of soap out of my soapslivers with only my present knowledge.
My first thought was making a bar of soap out of soapslivers should be easy. Soap is made by maxing animal fat and lye, melting them together and molding the mix. Therefor, all I have to do is save some slivers, melt and mold; so I thought. I have been saving slivers for at least a year and had an open canning jar full or them. I put the soapslivers in a fry pan and heated it. The slivers did not melt. I put them back in the jar and the jar went in the cupboard and I went for a bowl of soap. I like soup specially in winter.
Months later when taking a canning jar from the cupboard, my eye glanced off the jar housing my collection of soapslivers. With the soapsliver again in my mind, I proceeded with my kitchen hobby. A hangover from being a cook in the US Army. Musing my thought of the dish I was planning, witch required the use of a blender, the solution of the soapsliver problem surfaced.
I've been saving the end of my shower soap for sometime. I had a pint canning jar full of them. The jar was open so they became very dried and brittle. The soapslivers were put in a blender and ground into a powder. From there, after some time and thought I just put the powder in a small rectangular container, I found in the plastic container area of a store. To the powder was mixed water until the powder picked up the consistency of a tight drop dumpling. The soap dumpling in the container was put in the cupboard and I just forgot about it for a considerable time. I do not know how long it was there. When I did get around to looking at it, it had shrunk itself from the sides of the container and with a tap the content dropped into my hand. What fell to my hand was a bar of soap which I used to a sliver. Believe it or not.