TP is a bit more difficult to make and so are some of the other germ killing products. Soap is fairly simple to make. I doubt it will make the list of things everyone is having a hard time finding and going out of their minds because of it. If things don't turn around soon, I think TP might become the new unofficial currency though. It's already selling on Ebay for about a dollar a square. One square of TP is equal to a dollar already now.

and the TP profiteers will be stuck with garages full of it. At least they won't run out during the next pandemic.

Which is about the right place for it.

And that was just one among many other things she always said she needed. I was dealing with so much, at the time, I guess I didn't notice. When she died and I went to clear out her room, I found SOOO much soap, deodorant, emery boards, shampoo, band aids and toothpaste. Don't even get me started on the hair pins!!

And since I was paying for everything, out of my pocket, I brought it all home.

The one cheap brand that I can use was discontinued. My husband noticed it at Big Lots and for as long as he could get it there, he bought every bar they had.

Since I react to fragrances and to many soaps and detergents I am severely limited on what I can use. Having a good supply is great for putting my mind at rest.

At one point I estimated my usage and I might possibly have enough to last me the rest of my life.

of hotel soap I have liberated over the last few years of traveling.

I just picked up a bunch from the Hard Rock Resort in Puerto Vallarta in February.

homeless. Because they are small, they are much easier to carry around in a backpack.

Many hotels are moving to having dispensers of liquid body wash and shampoo (or an all purpose detergent) in their bathrooms. It saves on wrappers and those stupid tiny bottles so many chains were using.

I bet twenty years from now people will want to collect those little bars and bottles.

I will be able to cash in on the trend. Should I designate these in my will?

My husband occasionally goes to estate sales and gets all sorts of interesting things. The last sale he went to he got a stash of notepads, all sizes. Many have the guy's name on them and one group has "SHIT" at the top, which is perfect for making your shit list on.

They all do the same thing; they degrade phospholipid membranes, which will destroy both cell membranes of bacteria and also viral envelopes. With the RNA exposed, enzymes that are already present on your hands - RNAses - can destroy the viral RNA.

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work equally fine.

The process involves a good deal of craftsmanship, but a good soapmaker or shampoo maker can whip up a batch in his or her sleep. I am at a novice level, but my interest in on commercial application, so having to learn what works and what doesn't by trial and error is somewhat intellectually stimulating.

enough to last a couple of years.

Not judging, it just that most do your own soap makers use vegetable based long chain fatty acids as the starting blocks. Not that I will use it since I am firmly in the use plant-based materials world, but where do you find the amount of tallow needed for a decent sized batch?

went through the long, messy process of rendering my own tallow. Would have about 5 or 6 pounds. The last time, I ordered the clean tallow online.

You could be on to something. I thought it strange that soap supplies were so low, but I moved on to other activities today.

I order a dozen or so every six months. Hand-crafted, lightly scented, environmentally safe. Good stuff.

I'm good for a while...

At least until production can increase.

Have to be the stupidest people in the planet. Others without it could not wash off the virus and so increase their chance of getting it.

but if the people your are depriving of getting soap your going to get sick anyway. We all need to stay clean not just some of us.

their chances while those who cooperate maximize the possibility of surviving. That maxim has come from studies of actual events.

So these are selfish people who in competing for sanitizing agents, masks etc. do doom themselves and others. That’s how they roll.

Very tiny not-Kleenex tissues that can be used as toilet paper, carefully cause they are small.

The 99 Cents Only Store.

No one under 40 uses it anymore, it's become the subject memes associated with grossness for a while now. I'm 46 so this doesn't affect me, I love my bar soap.