Roundup: Best Soap Dishes

Soap dishes may seem like small details that can be overlooked, but they're actually very personal parts of a home. Whether it's a simple porcelain dish or a sleek lacquer model, the soap dish is something you use every day. We repurposed this small Brooklyn Tray from Fishs Eddy as our soap dish, and we love it. It's cute, does its job, and cleans up easily. Click below for our list of the best soap dishes from AT and around the web...

• Small Brooklyn Tray from Fishs Eddy
• Enamel Soap Dish from Labour and Wait
• Vintage Blue and White Enamel Soap Dish from Etsy
• Soap Dish Shelf Idea from Martha Stewart
• Bamboo Soap Dish by Feito Fibra
• Soap Saving Soap Dish
• Jonathan Adler Lacquer Soap Dish
• Altea Round Stone Soap Dish from the Conran Shop
• Stoneware Vitskar Soap Dish from IKEA
• Lillhomen Glass Soap Dish from IKEA

This list is just the beginning...add your recommendations in the comments below.

Comments (10)

Soy sauce and pickle dishes from your local Japanese hardware store make great soapdishes - and they're often available for less than $5 each.

http://veryasia.com/serveware.html
http://korin.com/Shop/Soy-Sauce-Pots-and-Dishes

posted by bepsf on March 16th 2009 at 6:24pm
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Why not just get a soap dispenser?

posted by bromelia on March 16th 2009 at 6:46pm
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"Why not just get a soap dispenser?"

Because I can't put the fancy soaps I get from the hotels and ships where I vacation in a soap dispenser...

posted by bepsf on March 16th 2009 at 7:00pm
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I've got one of these little guys:

http://www.umbra.com/ustore/product/020960/c367/wishbone_soap_dish.html

posted by natomaton on March 16th 2009 at 7:11pm
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bepsf, are you one of those people whose bathrooms are full of hotel soaps and shampoo bottles?

posted by bromelia on March 16th 2009 at 7:55pm
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imho - i think soap dishes should have slats for the soap to rest on and the liquid can drain off, that way the it's not sitting in it's own liquid and getting gooey.

posted by houseno8 on March 16th 2009 at 10:50pm
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I'm using a variation of beepsf's soy sauce dish. It's a similar size but used for grating daikon root for sushi. It has little ceramic pyramids on the bottom of the dish that grip the slippery bar of soap and keeps it from sitting in a pool of water.

Mine is a fugu, or blowfish. 99 cents.

posted by Slim on March 17th 2009 at 12:29am
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i use a small dessert plate by ikea als soap dish. it is white, smalll and simple, and it was a relief for me to find it after i saw so many ugly and unusefull dishes.
ps: loooooving her soaps:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5633305

posted by nicolezh on March 17th 2009 at 12:31am
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ambrosia porcelain soap dishes (they're mine!)
http://ocookie.net/index.php?/project/ambrosia-porcelain-welcomes-you/

posted by orangecookie on March 17th 2009 at 8:18am
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Isn't that a butter dish? ;-)

posted by mjr on March 17th 2009 at 9:56am
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