Many bar soaps will work for the tips provided here on the page, but there are some readers with a strong opinion of which brand or type works best for a variety of things.
Bar soap, as I mentioned, works better for removing certain laundry stains than others.
It tends to work well on mud and dirt stains.
For example, one reader said: "I just tried a bar of Ivory soap and rubbed it into some VERY stubborn stains on my baseball pants. Stains that hadn't come out with bleach!! I wet the soap, rubbed it into the stain for a few seconds and it literally came out! I was amazed! Best "secret" on the market!"
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Another stain that responds especially well to pretreating with bar soap is blood stains.
One reader said, "The way my mom taught me to remove blood stains from clothing is simply to hand wash the item in the sink with cold water and bar soap.
This always works for me, whether the stain is wet or dry.
Rinse out the most you can with the water, being careful not to transfer the stain to another part of the fabric, and then just scrub with the bar soap, rinse, and then repeat as necessary.
Then I just throw it it in the wash and no more stain."
Another use for bar soap is as an ingredient in homemade laundry soap.
While some people use laundry bar soaps (such as Fels Naptha, Zote, or Sunlight) for this purpose others use soaps they can find right in the aisle at the store for hand washing.
The most common for this purpose are Ivory and Dove. Some prefer these soaps which have milder or even no scents, instead some of the more scented laundry bar soaps, because of allergies or other reasons.
You can find lots of homemade laundry soap recipes here, including quite a few which use one of these soap bars.
Finally, here are even more cleaning and household uses for this common item.
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