Make Your Own Bespoke Soaps

While you could spend a fortune on store-bought presents for your friends and family, handmade presents are budget-friendly and thoughtful - and some people absolutely love them. But what can you make? Well, one of the easiest handmade gifts you can make is your own bespoke soaps. To make these, you'll need some moulds, some leftover soap bars, water, and a few decorative items such as ribbons, fruit, or foliage.

Then, put the leftover soap bars and the water onto the stove and melt everything down. When it's liquid, pour them into the moulds and decorate them however you choose.

Use Soap to Make Sawing Easier

Even those who are proficient in DIY will know just how difficult using a saw can be - especially when you're cutting a thick piece of wood. Although you intend to cut in a straight line, sometimes the saw has other ideas and goes off course. But if you want to make sure that your saw goes straight through the wood without any problems, lubricating it with a soap bar should do the trick.

Not only that, but you can also use a soap bar if you don't have a pen or pencil to mark out where you want to cut. This makes the whole process so much easier.

Get Rid of Grease Stains

Hands up if you know a fully-grown adult who is constantly getting food down their clothes? If you're that adult, there's a high chance that you've thrown away more stained clothes than most. But you can stop throwing your clothes away, as there's a super simple way to get rid of grease stains on your shirt - and it doesn't involve buying expensive chemicals from the grocery store. Instead, you just need some soap.

It's also handy to have a scrubbing brush to hand, as you can then rub the soap into the stain with a brush and rinse it out. You may need to repeat this a few times, but it should work.

Make Your Own Cleaning Bombs

If you have a house full of cleaning supplies, there's a high chance that you like your home to be as clean and tidy as possible. And while you could head out and buy even more cleaning supplies, why would you do that when you could make your own? In fact, you can make your own cleaning bombs that you can drop into your bathtub or toilet and let them do the hard work for you.

To make these, mix liquid soap with baking powder and lemon juice. The end result should be a crumbly mixture that you can mold into a ball and pop in the freezer. Then, they're ready!