London - The humble bar of soap may have been relegated from many British bathrooms in favour of liquid handwash and shower gel, but perhaps it’s due a resurgence - as posts circulating internet forums suggest more uses for it than the obvious.
Gardeners swear by soap, not just for keeping green fingers clean, but to prevent them from getting grubby in the first place: scrape your nails along a bar before digging your flower beds, and you’ll stop soil and dirt accumulating underneath them altogether.
Add a sliver to the bottom of a spray bottle and fill with water, meanwhile, and you’ll have the perfect, non-toxic solution to spritz on plant leaves to keep bugs away.
Keen seamstresses, it seems, often wrap a bar of soap in cloth and use it as a pin cushion - the soap lubricates the tips of the pins for easier insertion into stiff fabrics.
Slivers of soap are also perfect to keep in your sewing kit for marking up dark fabric - far easier to wash out than chalk.
A bar of soap run along sticking zips, or the runners at the side of sticky drawers, will see them gliding smoothly again in no time.
And cheap bars of fragrant soap in empty suitcases, the back of drawers, or even around your car can keep things smelling fresh. - Daily Mail