Today I had a chance to finally use a bar of soap Legal made probably almost a year and a half ago. He'd sent me a bunch of them to try & well, I just hadn't had a chance to ever use them.

They were great to show people but I kind of liked keeping them to show instead of try.

I already have some Glycerin soap that I get from the folks at Piedmont from their soap maker there that I sell (and use and love!).

Well, today I thought I'd give Legals soap bars a try...I was absolutely stunned by how well it worked!

Here's how it went...

I have a 3 month old daughter.
3 Month Old daughters can...uhm...make a mess of white shirt if they...uhm...."let go"....Especially if it's a diaper blow-out (the parents amont us will understand what that means....it's pretty gross).

Let's just say there was now a big yellow stain on my new white shirt. Several of them in fact.

I hit it with SpotShot & Shout.
It didn't touch it.

So, I ran out to my shed & brought in one of Legal's soap bars.

Figured I'd give it a try.
I cut a sliver off of the bar, headed down stairs to the sink & thought, "Well, let's give it a try".

I scrubbed it into the stain & watches as it turned yellowish & went all over the shirt & thought, "Oh crap, it's spreading the stain around"....then I rinsed.

Let's just say the stuff is downright amazing!

OK, here's what the soap bar looks like:


This is a smaller stain my wife found after I'd already hit the big ones...


This is it with soap on it:


And this is it afterwards:


I tell ya the stuff is just incredible!!!!

If you have any doubt about how good this soap is, I'm telling you, give it a try. It'll amaze the crap out of you.

I've sold Glycerin based soap for a while but never had a need to pull a stain out with it until today.

I'm just absolutely dumbfounded at how well it worked.

Give it a try, you'll be simply amazed at the results!

-Graydon

I've known the stuff was that good for months and months!

My goodness ! You still have that ? The soap bars are a little more refined now and come all nice and wrapped up and everything :-)
They still work just as well though. Thanks for the cudos Graydon, although this is what anyone who gets into making soap from their glyerine layer can expect. That's the beauty of it, it doesn't HAVE to come from me, you can make it yourself the same way I do. I'll never go back to commercial, and the "commercial" I was using before making my own was high end Castille. I prefer mine.

I have two girls, ages 5 and 7. My kids do not trust what they call, "Dads biodiesel soap". I am not sure why. It could be because dad made it.
I recently made some birdhouses for the girls, you know trying to be super dad and all. The girls wanted to paint them. So we painted. Even got some paint on the birdhouses. A nice Robin egg blue.
The five year old went in to wash her painted hands at "my" sink in the utility room. The only soap available at "my" sink was the dreaded biodiesel soap. She soon reappeared and said,"Dad your soap really works. Later she said,"Dad if I ever see biodiesel soap again, I will take some.

They's hooked now, no turning back, they are assimilated ...

It's just amazing stuff!
(And we wonder why our grandparents used it...duh! It worked!)

-Graydon

Can the liquid version be used in dishwashers or clothes washers? I'd love to stop paying for that stuff.

Graham Laming has successfully used in in an automatic dish washer but that was a chunk of bar soap. Others have had success using liquid in that capacity.
Liquid can be successfully used as a laundry prescrub on stubborn stains, I do it all the time, or as an addition to regular detergent in a 50/50 ratio for work clothes ect. I do that too. It will not impart any smell to the clothes when done this way, so could theoretically be used 50/50 all the time thereby reducing your detergent use by that much.
The thing I do not know is how the glycerine soap affects the motor seals of the washer. It is a soap and not a solvent like biodiesel, so I would venture a guess to say that it will not adversly affect the seals, but that is a guess not based on knowledge.
Others with more experience using it this way might chime in and give us more clarification.

I have been using 50% + for laundry for the last 6-9 months. In fact, I am washing with 100% bio soap and using a dryer sheet for fragrance.

No issues so far.

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Originally posted by Beer McCoy:
I have been using 50% + for laundry for the last 6-9 months. In fact, I am washing with 100% bio soap and using a dryer sheet for fragrance.

No issues so far.

Front loader or regular top loader type?

I have a front loader that I am paying an arm and a leg for the fancy "high efficiency" Tide detergent. I get more loads than they say per bottle but it's still expensive.

This whole soap deal is what has me getting back into bio-d from blending wvo.

I need to make ~1500 gallons of bio-d this year for home heating and use in the cars. That's ~300 gallons of glycerine!

C.