What is this called?

[dagmar88]

 

[agriffin]

I saw some of those on ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-SOAP-SH ... 35ba0ef07b

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Wire-So ... 1c1e0cdc8c


Antique soap shakers/savers

 

[dagmar88]

ah, over here it's a soap 'beater', so I coulnd't find anything haha

thanks a lot!

 

[busybee]

I can remember my mother using one of those with Sunlight Soap in it for washing up dishes. As the sink is filling you use it to shake the soap around in the hot water and it lathers the water up. I'm not sure if Sunlight Soap is just a NZ name or not but it was a laundry soap here, yellow in colour.

 

[dagmar88]

I can remember my mother using one of those with Sunlight Soap in it for washing up dishes. As the sink is filling you use it to shake the soap around in the hot water and it lathers the water up. I'm not sure if Sunlight Soap is just a NZ name or not but it was a laundry soap here, yellow in colour.

Must be worldwide. I know sunlight was used a lot, especially pre ww2 in Germany, France and the Netherlands.
Making your own was already out of fashion by that time
Loads of people stocked up on it back then, and even now stacks of sunlight pop up from under beds when the elderly pass away.

I'd love to start selling them, but can't seem to find a wholesale seller/producer

 

[busybee]

Wow what a wonderful picture. Sunlight is still sold here as far as I know, will have a look today when I go to the supermarket.

 

[dagmar88]

8) My great grandmother's mother was dressed like that.

It is still sold over here, I clean just about everything with that stuff, green soap or soda

 

[Soapy Gurl]

I thought it was a grilled cheese at first, lol, I must be hungry.

 

[Hazel]

Soapy Gurl -

I also thought grilled cheese sandwich when I first saw the pic.

 

[Dragonkaz]

I can remember my mother using one of those with Sunlight Soap in it for washing up dishes. As the sink is filling you use it to shake the soap around in the hot water and it lathers the water up. I'm not sure if Sunlight Soap is just a NZ name or not but it was a laundry soap here, yellow in colour.

Me too

We lived and worked in the Fiji Island from 2000-2003 and once a month our staff got a long bar of soap with their pay. It was an incentive to keep their uniforms nice and clean. The bar was like the old long sunlight ones and our staff would cut them into four or more good sized bars and use them when washing cloths, dishes, bodies etc.

 

[Bubbles Galore]

We used to call them Soap Savers over here. :wink:

 

[dagmar88]

I thought it was a grilled cheese at first, lol, I must be hungry.

 

[Carolann]

Soap savers / shakers

Hi all we manufacture new soap shakers on a small scale as no one else seemed to be doing it and they are such a great idea. Have a look at www.selfsufficiencystore.com and there is a you tube clip on how they are used. Cheers
Carolann