How to: Organize your toiletries

Unless you're completely devoted to only one brand/line of toiletries, keeping them organized can be a challenge. The April 2007 issue of Martha Stewart Living has a whole feature on Bathroom storage. One of the ideas they presented was to simply use uniform plastic bottles to hold your shampoos or liquid soaps. Using the same sized containers will not only keep things visually looking organized, but also helps them fit neatly together. Have any of you done this in your own bathroom?...

Does anyone have any other tips for organizing toiletries? Please share in the comments!

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I started doing this about a year ago for a couple of reasons - 1), I found I bought some items primarily for the visual appeal of the packaging, and 2) I wanted to try and visually declutter my kitchen and bath area. I started by stripping the labels off of all of the packaging. When I found, say a handsoap, in a really nifty package, I would buy several. As the handsoap was used up, I would clean out the bottle and put my hand sanitizer in one, my dishsoap in another, and so on. It liberated me from having to buy products for the visual appeal, ended up saving me a lot of money, and made the kitchen and bath a little more streamlined.

I love this idea. But what would make it even better is if more companies started supplying refill-sizes in eco-friendly packaging.

Yep, I do this in the full and half-baths.

In the kitchen I fill an aluminum pump travel bottle with dish soap. It saves a great deal of space around the sink area and is quick to fill. Beside it, I have a soap dish with a bar of soap for my hands. It works out nicely if you use glycerin or another type of soft soap and slice it in half. Very streamlined and easy to clean around the sink.