Homemade Liquid Hand Soap

I don't know about you, but I have a really a really hard time paying almost $4.00 for a big bottle of liquid handsoap.  On the other hand, I think having a bar of soap at the sink to wash with is messy.  So, I tried making homemade liquid handsoap and it worked great!  It is WAY cheaper and very easy.

Ingredients:

1 c. grated soap
10 c. water
1 T. liquid glycerin (found by the band-aids at Wal-mart)

Just so you know, this makes about 2 to 3 quarts of handsoap so make sure you have a container big enough to store it in.

Take a bar of soap and grate it with a cheese grater.  One bar of soap gives you more than a cup so just save the remainder in a Ziploc bag for next time.  Put 10 c. water in a large pot.  Add the 1 c. grated soap and 1 T. liquid glycerin.  Heat on medium-low, stirring occasionally, for a few minutes until soap flakes are dissolved.  Remove from heat.  Now you need to let it cool completely before putting it in the plastic soap bottle.  At first it is going to be the texture of water but as it cools it will thicken.  However, you need to stir it about every 1/2 hour just to make sure the soap and glycerin stay mixed with the water evenly and don't clump up.  Once it is completely cooled and thicker (after a few hours) then you can put it in the soap bottles.