Target, WalMart, Dollar General also carry Irish Spring.
Everything LSLGuy said. I still use bar soap because I have sensitive skin and need scentless. I haven’t found liquid soap that works, except for expensive medicated soap, which is a hassle to find and in the end I find is really no better than bar soap anyway, aside from not slipping out of my hands in the shower.
I once came into possession of a case (48 bars) of Cashmere Bouquet “mild beauty soap”. It was left over from a middle school promotion where each kid got a bar in a goody bag. Well, I took them home and removed all of them from their packages so they’d dry out and last longer when I got around to using them (this really works). When I’d used them up about seven years later, I decided to see how much a case would sell for. Turns out Colgate-Palmolive stopped making it a few years before and old bars were selling for high prices to enthusiasts. Who’d a thunk it?
Anyway, Ollie’s is the place to buy bar soap cheap these days.
Another vote here for welding the nearly-gone soap to a new bar. I’ve done it this way for years.
Works well with Dial soap. Other “creamier” soaps are a bit harder to weld, but with a little care it can still be done.
“Hints from Heloise” ran a column some years ago full of readers’ suggestions for what to do with nearly-gone soaps. It was full of really weird ideas. One was to collect the small pieces until you have a bunch, then put them into a mesh bag and swish them around in the kitchen sink to get soapy water to wash your dishes.
Once Upon a Time we would buy those huge blocks of soap
rather than a case of individually-wrapped bars. We also had those cases of plain Ivory Soap sometimes, depending on what was available. (I never saw the really huge 30-pound blocks
in a supermarket, but I assume if you had a big family and absolutely had to save every single penny you could get your hands on them somewhere.) Not that I care about the money, but to this day it still annoys me every time I see the same bar of soap for the same price mysteriously decrease from a 100g package to a 90g package-- it’s the principle of the thing.
Now, unless you’re a hobbyist I would not waste time crafting your own soap from scratch or collecting and recycling old slivers to cast into new bars, but I agree that you don’t need to “deal” with the slivers, just stick it on the next bar.
How do you use a huge block of soap like that? Is the soap kind of soft? Is it easy to cut into smaller convenient size bars?
It’s just pure olive-oil soap. I never had trouble cutting bars off the block with a sharp knife, but I don’t know that there isn’t a better way.
Nowadays there is a category of people who refuse to have anything to do with factory manufactured soaps and produce their own soap or purchase home made soap like this:
It can be sliced into bars, of course, although it requires a certain technique and a little bit of effort.
Maybe you could use piano wire or something similar?
There are smaller homemade soap bars, but the large ones are cheaper.
I get my soap from Dollar Tree - Irish Spring, Dial, Caress, Zest, etc. are all 2 bars/$1. They also have large bars of Yardley and other “beauty” soaps for $1 each.
I do it with traditional Ivory with no issues. I always thought it was the other way; getting e.g. Dial wet/soft enough to get a good bond was hard; getting soft Ivory to inseparably merge was easy.
For darn sure the “trick” with Ivory is to merge them together at the end of a shower, not the start. Then let it sit a few hours for the joint to harden before using the combined bar.
The “hint” I saw was putting them in a small pouch made out of a pair of nylons. I’m guessing like a 1980’s loofah.
I use Dr Bronner’s liquid soap in the shower. It’s minty on the undercarriage. We always have a bar of unscented Ivory soap for my wife. The last little sliver sits on the drain until it eventually doesn’t.
I buy pounds of nice soap off of etsy. We use it and I give bars away to friends and family.
This stuff melts fast! So I invested in soap bags. The ones I bought are made of hemp and along with holding slivers nicely also act like a loofah. Soap bags - Etsy
The first time I hung one up in the shower hubby took his shower first. He came out afterwards and said he really liked it. Once the water was hot again I jumped through. I scrubbed my face, my arms, my legs… and loved how it felt.
I checked in with hubby telling him how nice my face felt.
He told me his balls have never felt so clean and soft.
We now have His and Hers soap bags. 
As a kid, I would let the soap bar get very thin, then soften it up during a bath and smoosh it onto the walls of the tub to create art. For some reason, my parents did not appreciate this (although they never accused me of wasting soap).
Now I save the little slivers until I have enough for a decent-sized bar, then I soak them and smoosh them together.
It’s been years since I used Dial bar soap, but one of the things I liked about was that a new bar of soap had a slight depression that was just the right size for the sliver of the old bar to fit into. So it was really easy to get the old sliver to weld to the new bar.
I always wondered if that was an intentional design choice or just a happy accident.
I have yet to find a soap for bathing that 1) has a decent (non-flowerey) scent and 2) is liquid and 3) actually works. I’ve tried multitudes of differently men’s body washes and liquid soaps – Cremo, Old Spice, Dove Men’s Care, Avon, The Body Shop, and many others – and none seem to clean quite like a decent bar soap. If I use Old Spice body wash, for instance, for my morning shower by the end of the day I feel sweaty and stinky – sometimes literally. Stick deodorant only goes so far.
However, if I use a good antibacterial / deodorant bar soap, Dial Gold antibacterial being my go-to, I can go all day and not feel like I have little green clouds of BO wafting off of me. I’m a teacher so its not like I’m exerting myself all day, but its also doubly important that I’m not stinking up the building. Whenever I get it in my head that it would be nice to try some new, masculine-scent body wash, a day later I remember why I stick to good ol’ bar soap.
Oh, and to answer the OP, when the old sliver is a few mm thick, I press it to a new bar at the end of the shower and let it “weld” until the next day. By then it’s one big bar and can be merrily used as normal, no wasting soap.
Dr. Bronner’s peppermint liquid castile soap.
Everything on that list but no liquid Dial gold antimicrobial soap?
