What Happens to All Those Hotel Soap Bars? The Global Soap Project aims to tidy those slivers’ trip

Penn · 04-17-2012, 12:19 PM

What Happens to All Those Hotel Soap Bars?

The Global Soap Project aims to tidy those slivers’ trip to the landfill by sending reclaimed soap to poor countries.
By Arnie Cooper

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What Happens to All Those Hotel Soap Bars?
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In 1994, on his second trip to the United States, Derreck Kayongo was staying at a Philadelphia hotel when he noticed that every bar of soap he’d use in the morning was replaced magically with a new one by the time he returned that evening. “I asked the concierge what they did with the partially used bars, and he actually told me they threw them away!”

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ancona · 04-17-2012, 01:00 PM

When I traveled a lot and spent weeks on end in hotels managing projects, I would collect all the little soaps, shampoo, conditioner, lotion bottles and save tehm up. My daughter used to get a big kick out of them. Now that she's spending the summer in Europe, where you are charged for thois things, she is packing about thirty or so bottles of shampoo and loading lotion and soap bars in her bags. She expects to give some out as gifts in the student groups she will meet up with from around the world and use them as trade items.

DCFusor · 04-17-2012, 01:33 PM

Mebbe I don't stay in the right places. The quality of the stuff I've seen in most rooms would go a long way towards convincing the 3rd world recipients we don't live so much better than they do, IMO. Very different on a cruise ship = you get the good stuff. But hotels, it seems you get soap and shampoo that won't even lather decently.

ancona · 04-17-2012, 01:37 PM

I don't stay at 5 star places, but at a buck eighty a night, I expect to be treated like a human fucking being at the very least, which means nice toiletries.

DCFusor · 04-17-2012, 03:08 PM

Gee, I just bring my own. My delicate skin and hair and all that junk demand the best, and I don't think I can expect them to provide what I want - or even know what that is. </humor>

rblong2us · 04-17-2012, 04:02 PM

ugh soap !!!!

not gonna catch on in this neck o the woods

Penn · 04-17-2012, 06:53 PM

I worked at a hotel for 7 years. I am still friends with the manager. As it turns out- she does this! A church group comes and gets it for missions.

I also worked in group homes- and both there and tourism are fascinating to me.

04-17-2012, 12:19 PM	#1
Penn Yellow Jacket Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 1,566 Liked: 249 times	What Happens to All Those Hotel Soap Bars? The Global Soap Project aims to tidy those slivers’ trip What Happens to All Those Hotel Soap Bars? The Global Soap Project aims to tidy those slivers’ trip to the landfill by sending reclaimed soap to poor countries. By Arnie Cooper 1 Comment and 52 Reactions \| PRINT \| SHARE What Happens to All Those Hotel Soap Bars? (detsugu/Flickr.com) Related Stories * Watching You In the Loo In 1994, on his second trip to the United States, Derreck Kayongo was staying at a Philadelphia hotel when he noticed that every bar of soap he’d use in the morning was replaced magically with a new one by the time he returned that evening. “I asked the concierge what they did with the partially used bars, and he actually told me they threw them away!” http://www.miller-mccune.com/environ...gn=newsletters

04-17-2012, 01:00 PM	#2
ancona Yellow Jacket Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Waaay south Posts: 3,370 Liked: 2046 times	When I traveled a lot and spent weeks on end in hotels managing projects, I would collect all the little soaps, shampoo, conditioner, lotion bottles and save tehm up. My daughter used to get a big kick out of them. Now that she's spending the summer in Europe, where you are charged for thois things, she is packing about thirty or so bottles of shampoo and loading lotion and soap bars in her bags. She expects to give some out as gifts in the student groups she will meet up with from around the world and use them as trade items. bushi likes this. __________________ All things being equal, the simplest answer is quite often the correct answer - Occam

04-17-2012, 01:33 PM	#3
DCFusor Yellow Jacket Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Floyd, Virginia Posts: 1,682 Liked: 1233 times	Mebbe I don't stay in the right places. The quality of the stuff I've seen in most rooms would go a long way towards convincing the 3rd world recipients we don't live so much better than they do, IMO. Very different on a cruise ship = you get the good stuff. But hotels, it seems you get soap and shampoo that won't even lather decently. Penn likes this.

04-17-2012, 01:37 PM	#4
ancona Yellow Jacket Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Waaay south Posts: 3,370 Liked: 2046 times	I don't stay at 5 star places, but at a buck eighty a night, I expect to be treated like a human fucking being at the very least, which means nice toiletries. __________________ All things being equal, the simplest answer is quite often the correct answer - Occam

04-17-2012, 04:02 PM	#6
rblong2us Yellow Jacket Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: off world Posts: 1,966 Liked: 871 times	ugh soap !!!! not gonna catch on in this neck o the woods __________________ if it cant be done with a digger .... it cant be done

04-17-2012, 03:08 PM	#5
DCFusor Yellow Jacket Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Floyd, Virginia Posts: 1,682 Liked: 1233 times	Gee, I just bring my own. My delicate skin and hair and all that junk demand the best, and I don't think I can expect them to provide what I want - or even know what that is. </humor>

04-17-2012, 06:53 PM	#7
Penn Yellow Jacket Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 1,566 Liked: 249 times	I worked at a hotel for 7 years. I am still friends with the manager. As it turns out- she does this! A church group comes and gets it for missions. I also worked in group homes- and both there and tourism are fascinating to me.

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