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Well, it's a rainy bank holiday so I got to work on fixing my Palmolive shave stick soap. Problem is with it that it's messy to hold by the tiddly little plastic base and I'm sick of seeing its tatty cardboard box in the bathroom man-binet.
Project dispenser began.
This type of thing's been done before but I wanted to try to use a handy-sized holder to contain a single stick's worth of soap. I found this deodorant in the supermarket and it seemed about the right size.
Nivea solid stick deodorant. Took a few weeks to use up using liberally. Quite a good product actually.
Easy to unscrew and take apart to clean out...
Took my old Palmolive stick that'd been used only a few times...
Grated it with a cheese-grater to look like soap shavings. I'd put the stick in the freezer for a while beforehand to prevent it going squidgy and make grating easier...
Squished some of the shavings into the moving base part to act as the lower plug...
Then screwed the base-plug into the dispenser tube and screwed it down to the bottom of the tube...
Dropped the shavings down the tube a little at a time then pounded the soap into form using a wooden chop stick. Don't need to do this too hard or else the stick will be too tight to move up the tube...
Slightly less than a full stick fills the tube to the top. Doesn't look very smooth here but it should smooth out with use...
The deodorant's label stays on after soaking in hot water but is actually really easy to pull off. This is some sort of label technology I've not seen before!
Below picture shows the soap emerging from the end of the relabelled tube after twisting the knob at the end.
Back to the man-binet. It'll have to wait until MWF week is over before it gets its testing.
Project dispenser began.
This type of thing's been done before but I wanted to try to use a handy-sized holder to contain a single stick's worth of soap. I found this deodorant in the supermarket and it seemed about the right size.
Nivea solid stick deodorant. Took a few weeks to use up using liberally. Quite a good product actually.
Easy to unscrew and take apart to clean out...
Took my old Palmolive stick that'd been used only a few times...
Grated it with a cheese-grater to look like soap shavings. I'd put the stick in the freezer for a while beforehand to prevent it going squidgy and make grating easier...
Squished some of the shavings into the moving base part to act as the lower plug...
Then screwed the base-plug into the dispenser tube and screwed it down to the bottom of the tube...
Dropped the shavings down the tube a little at a time then pounded the soap into form using a wooden chop stick. Don't need to do this too hard or else the stick will be too tight to move up the tube...
Slightly less than a full stick fills the tube to the top. Doesn't look very smooth here but it should smooth out with use...
The deodorant's label stays on after soaking in hot water but is actually really easy to pull off. This is some sort of label technology I've not seen before!
Below picture shows the soap emerging from the end of the relabelled tube after twisting the knob at the end.
Back to the man-binet. It'll have to wait until MWF week is over before it gets its testing.
