How to make your own travel shave sticks

This will work with glycerin shaving soaps only, please do not try and do this with a milled soap as you will ruin it.....

First remove your soap from the tub. This can be done in a variety of ways, but I am hoping that you can run a knife around the soap to loosen it and then pop it out... If it doesn't pop out easily, try freezing it for 15 minutes and then pop it out... if it still won't come out, you will have to melt it. If your soap is in puck form, you will not have to do this....

Melting your Shaving Soap

Microwave your shaving soap in your microwave at 10 second bursts only, it might be quicker if you cut your soap into pieces first. Shaving soap melts at 160 degrees and the stick containers are only rated for 160 degrees, so you need to do this carefully so you do not warp your stick container. Melt your soap in (if possible) and pour from a glass container with a pour spout to minimize spillage, do not pour directly from the tubs.... don't ask me how I found this out....

Pour your melted soap into the open stick or deodorant container. You will probably have too much soap and the left over can be poured back into your tub or other container to use in a traditional manner. Let the containers cool for at least 30 minutes and this time can be speeded up by placing the containers in the fridge or freezer.

Overheating your soap can result in loss of fragrance so be very careful to not get too hot.

The shaving soap is harder than most things you would normally use in these containers and can be hard to twist up.. be gentle as to not break you twist mechanism.....

BRILLIANT!!!

That's pretty cool, and I wouldn't mind something else in the Dopp kit besides my usual tube of Palmolive.

Do you know of a source for these tubes? I wonder if coating the inside with some sort of release agent would make it easier to push the soap stick out.

Awesome!

Sue looks from the picture attached as if you may have a source of the stick containers already?
Any chance you'll be offering these? (filled or unfilled)
I' personally love to use them to test your various fragrances

Nick

I sell that particular type, but you can use anything... here are some from ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/LOT-of-10-Large-...QQcmdZViewItem and you can always clean out and reuse your empties :)

Awesome!

Sue do you have a source of these containers already? (Looks like it from the picture!)
Any chance you'll be offering these soon? (filled or unfilled)
I for one would love the chance to test your various fragrances using this form ...

Nick

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Originally Posted by anselmo

Awesome!

Sue looks from the picture attached as if you may have a source of the stick containers already?
Any chance you'll be offering these? (filled or unfilled)
I' personally love to use them to test your various fragrances

Nick

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Hi Nick, I am just doing them unfilled for now, but if I ever get caught up I might make and stock a few.

Hugs,

Sue

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Originally Posted by Mama Bear

Hi Nick, I am just doing them unfilled for now, but if I ever get caught up I might make and stock a few.

Hugs,

Sue

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Cool! :y

Sue:

I've actually thought of this, but didn't know where to get the containers.

I've considered the issue of the soap sticking to the sides and breaking the mechanism (QED actually uses a more simple push bottom, as opposed to a screw-type).

Any thoughts about coating the inside if he container with a very small amount of glycerine, olive oil or similar type of lubricant to help solve this problem?

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Originally Posted by suzuki

Sue:

I've actually thought of this, but didn't know where to get the containers.

I've considered the issue of the soap sticking to the sides and breaking the mechanism (QED actually uses a more simple push bottom, as opposed to a screw-type).

Any thoughts about coating the inside if he container with a very small amount of glycerine, olive oil or similar type of lubricant to help solve this problem?

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I suspect it would incorporate into the hot soap when it was poured, but it is worth trying... I will see what I can do tonight and let you know!

Good idea... :nj

I thought about the whole "incorporation" issue as well.

However, in the context of cooking, I know that greasing a pan prevents/limits sticking - even when you add a hot mixture into the pan - so thought it would be worth giving a shot in this context. I little extra glycerine won't hurt the soap in any event, so no harm done if the experiment flops.

Let us know how this works as I'm a huge fan of the shave stick - especially when I'm trying to shave :D a few minutes off my morning routine and when on the road.

Another possibility would be to use shea butter. I mean it is already an ingredient in there so no worries about that, but I would think that it would be much less likely to mix with the hot, liquid soap since it is thicker and you could get a better coating on the walls of the container. What do you think Sue?

I will play with it this weekend.. I have 4 extra tubes..... ;)

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Originally Posted by Mama Bear

Microwave your shaving soap in your microwave at 10 second bursts only,...Overheating your soap can result in loss of fragrance so be very careful to not get too hot.

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Ah, so that was my problem! All it too was five seconds too long...