Happy Friday: Frugal Soap
Sent from reader, Carla: This was the soap that was at a hotel we recently stayed at. We thought it was pretty funny 🙂
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LOVE IT!!!!!! Where did you stay?? 🙂
I don’t know if this is where she stayed, but I had that same soap when I stayed at the Cork Factory hotel in Lancaster, PA…pretty cute place to stay!
We had the same type of soap at Mountain Lake Hotel in Virginia where they filmed the hotel scenes for Dirty Dancing.
I am going to have to look into that hotel. We love going to Lancaster!
That soap will now break in to a bunch of little pieces as opposed to a small sliver. I don’t know if this is necessarily a “green” idea. But it’s definitely funny!
i thought the same thing—its going to break in more pieces..
Unbelievable! Some of these “green” people just don’t think things through very well! So instead of a small center sliver being left, it is now going to be an even bigger “ring” sliver!
You gotta figure – it’s at a hotel, so people use a bar of soap for what, 1-2 days? So they do end up throwing it out, I doubt it gets to the point where it breaks in many pieces…so for the hotel, it probably does save money as opposed to throwing out whole bars of soap 🙂
Except I think this “green” bar of soap probably costs more just because it’s “green.”
I would imagine the little tiny bars of soap you used to get at hotels would still use less soap…and money! This is just funny! 🙂
This is hilarious. Waste reducing soap or waste increasing soap. lol
too funny.
i thought it was a potty seat for the kids- lol!
I did too when I looked at just the thumbnail of this pic. Too funny!
Me too!!!!!
haha me too!
Same here! 🙂
This is great! Thanks for posting, Collin 🙂
that isn’t environmentally sound, that is just cheap! Haha, thank you for sharing!
THIS LOOKS LIKE A DIRTY POTTY SEAT FOR KIDS LOL! NICE ONE 🙂 HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE! 🙂
What the heck is that supposed to be? I can’t figure it out?!?
It’s a bar of soap. They took the “center” out to be “green”, I guess.
wish i had thought of that!!
Ha, I love that!! What a clever idea, lol. I bet this soap costs more than regular soap though, just because its so different and waste reducing!
We just had that soap in our cabin at Yellowstone a few weeks ago! It is supposedly green because it “has been designed to eliminate the unused center of traditional soap bars.”
We did think it was pretty cute, although we didn’t use any of it. Just brought it all back for any guests in our house to use.
LOL, we also got that same soap on a recent summer Yellowstone trip and brought them back
LOL.
I bet it’s handier to hang in the shower though…for awhile anyways…too funny!
yeah, hang on something—-lol
Can play ring toss in the shower… lol
I totally was thinking the same thing!
i thought at first it was a tiolet seat of some kind. then i read it was soap? its going to break in a ton more pieces. but in all — as my kids would say REALLY? —– what is the point? i don’t get it…
It probably cost more than regular soap and probably wont last as long as regular soap. But quite an interesting concept! I love these Happy Friday post!
I don’t get it. Why isn’t the center used? Any slivers we have left over we attach to a new bar.
Yep we do the same thing. We just add it to the next bar.!
Seriously, this is a great idea. They put it in hotel to reduce waste, since they have to throw away any used soap and not many people would actually use a whole bar of soap in a night or two. This stops almost a whole bar of soap being thrown into the trash per room! I think that this is awesome for hotel and such.
Clean the World is an organization taking used soap donations and turning them into new soaps for use in developing countries. A wonderful example of “Green.”
Love it!! Wonder why we didn’t think of it before! Great idea!
Yes, I think it will save the hotel money, since people only use it a couple of times, but to say it’s “green” , well, if green is the new cheap, I guess they are right!
That is pretty funny!! A hotel we just stayed at just had VERY THIN soap (I mean 1/4″ thick).
BBW used to have soap like that. Very, very thin and it was packaged specifically for travel to reduce waste.
These people are geniuses! You wanna know what waste reducing soap is ACTUALLY called?…BODYWASH! Jeepers!
dont drop the soap
There is an organization called Clean the World which collects leftover soaps from hotels in the Orlando area. The soap is cleaned, sanitized ande reprocessed. It is then distributed in Haiti, to people who cannot afford soap. I heard about it on the today show. I consider that more green than the little toilet seat bar idea!!
That is awesome!
love that
Reminded me of the “green” idea at the hotel we stayed at recently where there was a sign that said hang your towels up to save water on laundry or put them on the floor if you want clean towels. However, there wasn’t a single towel bar in the bathroom and the clean towels were rolled up in a cabinet under the sink. The shower had a floor to ceiling glass door and there was no shower curtain rod. So, how are you supposed to hang them up so they get dry to use again?
lol! the airborne inn on fort bragg has that same sign!
I saw the same sign the last time I stayed at a hotel, but there was a towel bar, and hooks on the back of the door but no matter where I hung my towel, they kept taking them. I was tempted to leave a comment on the comment card, but it was only multiple choice no room for real comments.
Yea I’m possitive this “green” bar of soap costed more than a “non green” bar of soap. Lol
I’m wondering if it’s molded that way, or if the middle was cut out & is in another room?
Duh nevermind, lol. I had to look at the pic again & can see it came packaged that way.
but maybe at the factory they package the middle too! like donut holes LOL!!
Off subject, but I just wanted to let you know, Collin, that I will be thinking of you and your family this weekend with Irene. I spent several years in New Bern when my ex was stationed at Cherry Point, and I have been through a few (Fran was the biggest) myself. Seems like the end of August just isn’t complete in that region without a hurricane blowing through (literally!). Don’t worry about us Hip@Savers; just do what you have to do and stay safe! Hugs!
Why waste cardboard to justify the idea of green with a strange looking piece of soap? That’s not being green!
It’s not a sign explaining the soap. It’s the back of the box that the soap was in.
they have that soap at the Grand Canyon, if you stay at one of their hotels.
they have that soap at the Grand Canyon hotels, onsite.
At first I thought it was the left over soap from the last guest, then I read it.
Wow, what a cool idea… no one ever uses the soap till the end… at least normal folks, I know we’re all thrifty and all but come on! kudos to the manufacturers. I wonder if its affordable….
Makes sense for hotels, people who commented on always using the slivers probably didn’t notice that this is about a hotel soap and there sometimes people only use it for one day and then it goes into trash.
Yes, the first guy who came up with the idea probably charges more for it so at first this soap might be more expensive than the traditional soap (here it’s up to the hotel owner – is paying a little more for soap something he wants to do “just” to be green) but as more ideas come on the market and more people catch on, the price of green and environmentally friendly products will keep dropping. You can see it already.
As with anything in life, someone always has to take the first step to invent, make or buy something and of course it’s going to cost more money but if we didn’t do it, there would be no development.
Haha I love it! More than anything, it’s definitely creative! We travel a lot and anytime a hotel has something different, it’s a fun change 🙂 Our kids would love this and I think it’s a great idea. Maybe it isn’t very cost effective if the cost is a bit more but it’s better for the environment to reduce waste and comes in a recycled box….great way to go “green”!
Clever!
My idea…be green take it home! I’ve traveled all my life and every time we stayed at a hotel we took everything home used or unused in case we needed it for guest rooms or ran out. I’d totally pack this thing up and use it at my house. It’s “free” stuff(trust me you’re paying for it with those prices). Loved this post so adorable ran to the fam and showed them.
hahah sounds to me like it was “designed” to save the hotel money and make them look politically correct at the same time!
If you were able to smush the soap to take away the hole, how big would the bar be? Unless this is a small bar, I wonder if the amount of soap is really about the same? Large bar with hole OR small bar with no hole would be about the same amount of soap.
I was thinking the same thing! What a novel idea though
I know- I have a feeling there is more soap there then what is in a normal tiny hotel soap!
make a smaller bar of soap, or better yet, have the refillable liquid soap dispensers that the last hotel I stayed in had. They have shampoo and shower gel ones as well. It said it saves 1000 tiny bottles from ending up in landfills each month just from that hotel. I don’t see this soap having the same impact.
ive stayed at one of those as well it was a sheraton aloft hotel and i loved the dispensers as well in the shower.
The bar of soap is on a plate, so why can you see the counter through the center of the bar of soap?
that was freaking me out too. and it’s not like you’d want a soapdish with no center, since the soapdish collects the water…???
I thought it was probably just soap residue…
I saw the same soap when I stayed at a hotel in a state park. I thought it was cute!
We had that soap in our hotel in SF, CA near Union Square 😀 so awesome
& a small bar of soap is hard to handle in the shower. Ok, I’m done now.
I stayed at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference center in Atlanta Georgia. It actually was decent soap to wash your hands with but the body not so much. great concept though.