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That little net is going to be dirty! Pity, as it is a nice idea.

What a waste of plastic. Do not support this. Reuse your soaps by putting your soap bits on top of other soaps.

So ugly! This is 'cart before the horse' green design. It's much more 'green' even to throw out the ends of bar soaps than it is to buy something like this. Plus there are lots of other ways to use them up. Plus, I can't bring myself to care!

Soap in a net does foam nicely though.

There's just the two of us, and the only bar soap we use is gentle enough for our faces. So we put our tiny soap slivers into the boyfriend's shaving mug and he lathers them up with his shaving brush. Simple solution, no plastic crap necessary.

my mother used to put soap leavings in nylon net. when she had a nice little bunch, she tied the net & had an instant bath poof. now *that's* green.

as an aside, i've never met a device held by suction cups that actually lasted very long.

If you travel and don't like the soaps hotels give you, save the slivers and take them with you for disposable bars. You get to use them a bit more and eliminate the enormous waste generated by hotel soaps. Plus there's no need to bring a soap dish - the slivers are dry when they're in your bag.

Or you can stick them all in some cheesecloth or old pantyhose...same thing, less buying of needless crap.

Prototype? I am from the Czech Republic and this is a Communist era thing that all kindergartens, schools, government offices and all other public bathrooms had back then and are fortunately getting rid of in favor of liquid soap dispensers. It does make a really good lather though, as someone has already mentioned ...

We had essentially the same thing in girl scout camp. We tied a milk jug filled with water to a tree and tied some old panty hose with soap slivers in it to the jug. Instant hand washing station for camping.