My lovely wife and I were in Vegas about a month ago and because I'm loath to waste (I'm cheap) I save the soaps and use them when we return home. This time I thought the soap at the hotel we stayed at was particularly slick so I reasoned I might be able to make a passable shave soap out of it.
The first hotel that we stayed at had a grapefruit scent as its signature which gave me the idea to use their soap, and the next hotel's was particularly slick, hence the plan developed.
When we got home I grated a weeks worth of (triple milled) hotel soap, some of it the grapefruit soap from the first place we stayed. I left it to air overnight and added some make-up grade olive oil and food grade glycerin to the mix and then proceeded to heat it in a pot on a low heat stirring until it began to melt. I think I may have stopped early fearing I would somehow burn the soap. I was out of my depth. I pressed the contents of the pot into a cappuccino mug which I also picked up in Vegas...I love soap in mugs. Shaving that night I found the slickness and cushion actually quite good. Certainly no worse than some soaps I had bought, however the scent was so mild as to have no value at all. The next day I re grated the soap and added grapefruit extract and found the result very pleasing.
Now, I'm quite happy with the results, but I can't help but wonder if anyone else has done something similar. To be honest I'm also a little concerned about just how well it turned out. I've been one to think of the artisan soap makers as...well, perhaps not god like, but at least gifted beyond anything I could aspire to.
Thoughts?
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Ok, I know I can't be the only one to make shaving soap from hotel soap.right?
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