BAR SOAP ROPE

I use a Bar Soap Rope to dry out my bar soap between showers or baths, and to slow down the crazy flood of single-use plastic junk.

The Bar Soap Rope also makes the bar soap easier to hold on to while bathing. Plus, the ‘rope’ around the soap can also be used as a little scrubber for exfoliating your skin.

It’s easy to make a Bar Soap Rope with some light cord, string, shoestring or ribbon that is at least 32 inches [82 mm] long. Or, get one for free by sending me a self-addressed stamped envelope. Or get two fancy ones from me by making a $44 donation to any climate change fighting organization such as 350.org, Sierra Club, Citizens Climate Lobby or XOEarth.

A Bar Soap Rope made with the Lark’s Head knot holds the bar soap quite nicely when in use. As the soap gets smaller just pull on the hitch a little bit to tighten it up again.

The Lark’s Head knot has two pieces of cord around the soap that makes the soap easier to hold, and turns the cord into a little scrubby exfoliative if needed. Lark’s Head knot

To make your Bar Soap Rope, first tie the ends of a 32 inches or 82 mm long light cord, string, shoestring or ribbon together. A longer piece also works.

Then put a Lark’s Head knot around your bar soap by first wrapping a loop of the cord around the bar soap one time. Then run the two free tied ends of the cord through the loop. Next run the tied ends through the loop again to make two little coils. Going through the loop twice creates a Lark’s Head knot variation that stays tighter. Yes, the little coils makes the knot slightly different from a classic Lark’s Head knot hitch.

If you want make a larger scrubby with your Bar Soap Rope, or maybe make it easier to hold onto, you might prefer the Prusik knot over the Lark’s Head knot.

If you get a Bar Soap Rope from me, I can also send you a little metal S hanger that can be hung on a towel rack, shower head or handlebar to hang your soap. Just ask for the S hanger if you want one.

Bar Soap on a Rope helps reduce single-use plastic waste and the use of fossil fuels to make soap containers. Let’s keep the Earth cooler so we humans and the critters can keep having fun.

If you want to make a snazzier Bar Soap Rope, add beads to the ends of cord, string or ribbon.

Whether you make one or get one from me, use a Bar Soap Rope to keep your bar of soap dry and firm for your bathing, showering and planet saving journeys.

When I was a kid I thought ‘soap on a rope’ was neat because I could swing the rope around and do tricks with it. Even then I liked that the soap on a rope wasn’t mushy when I bathed.

For love and life, Stele

PS: Bonus eco bathroom tips:

Use NooPoo paper instead of toilet paper to save the forests and this planet. The printed office papers that you no longer need, unwanted non-slick printed books, used packing paper and other used papers can make good NooPoo Paper. Buying less toilet paper means more forests to help slow down the climate monster heatwaves, floods, wildfires, hurricanes and storms. [NooPoo Paper]

Bidets are also a nice toilet paper substitute. Homemade bottle bidets are easy to make if you don’t want to buy a fancy one that is installed under a toilet seat. [Bottle Bidets]

To dry your hands in a restroom without using paper towels that come from trees that keep our planet cool, rub your hands together until they dry, wipe your hands on your clothing, or shake the water off your hands [while singing the ‘Hand Dry Jive’ song].

Hand Dry Jive

  Play >>>>>>>> Hand Dry Jive .mp3

Hand Dry Jive, we’re doing the Hand Dry Jive

not using electric or paper towels
we’re hand dry jive now

over in the forest far away
there’s a tiger this very day
with a little message for you and me
they are cutting down a bunch of trees
for paper towels and that’s a bummery

intro: hand dry jive, I’m doing hand dry jive
I can’t lie, I’m doing the hand dry jive

hand dry jive, I’m doing hand dry jive
after I wash my hands in the bathroom
I do the jive with my hands in the air
swish and swing em all around
and in 90 seconds they are dry
or just dry them on your pants first
and in 30 seconds they are dry

then you will be dreaming one night
and you’ll at first have a little fright
and a tiger will come in the night
and give you a kiss on the cheek for doing it right
cuz you are saving his home every time you know
you dry your hands doing the hand jive and so
you’ll get sweet kisses in your dreams each night
by the tiger’s you’re saving, oh what a delight

hand dry jive, we’re doing the hand dry jive
help some tigers if you please
do the hand dry jive everybody

there’s a turtle in the ocean
and it’s been getting hotter you know
hotter because they’re using so much coal
to make that electricity to dry hands and so
the dryers all around the world
are making the planet hot
hurts the turtles not a little, but a lot

and so if you please everyone you know
do the hand dry jive, it’s the coolest

Hand Dry Jive /stele c12

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