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CONTAINER REDO FOR HOMEMADE LAUNDRY SOAP
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Minnie's Milestones by Jonni
(IC: blogger)
4 Materials
$28
1 Hour
Easy
A cute/stylish laundry soap container. Maybe, you make your own soap or just want an easy way to dispense your soap into the washing machine.
First, I looked for a container that could hold a lot of dry laundry soap. I wanted to store my homemade soap in a convenient location and have an easy way to dispense the soap to the machine, and the container had to be pretty! After searching for the right container, I finally found what I wanted at Bed, Bath and Beyond. One that didn't have a handle, so that a cute knob could be added and hold up to a drill bit. Finally, I found this one at Bed, Bath and Beyond. The container is a littler over one gallon and was a clear hard acrylic.
I took off the silver clamp part. Like I said, I wanted this to be easy, because who wants to clamp and unclamp a lid, not me. The clamp popped off quite easy and left no holes in the container. Then I took the seal off the container and spray painted the container and lid, with Valspar Frosted spray paint. After the container was dry, I replaced the rubber seal.
I was ready to decide where to put the knob on top of the lid.
Drill the hole with a bit the size of the bolt.
Thread the bolt/knob through the lid and place the washer and nut on the bolt.
I added a blackboard label that you can just pull off the adhesive back and placed on your container. The writing was done with ​the method of chalkboard transfer. See how to do this here: ​ https://www.shellknoblakegirl.com/chalkboard-transfer.html
The soap container is now located where I can easily add soap to the washing machine. I will have an additional post with how I make my laundry soap here on Hometalk and my blog. My soap costs only 4 cents per load.
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Published January 19th, 2018 11:52 AM
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