Soap dishes: how to choose the best one from the abundance of designs, shapes and materials. How to quickly make a soap dish with your own hands: we improve the interior of the bathroom Hinged soap dish from a plastic bottle

There is only half a day left before the holiday, and shopping for gifts takes a lot of time. But we know very well the way to our favorite shop for creativity. This is what we need now. And you don’t need to search for a long time and we will prepare quickly.

Maybe the idea is not mine, and I didn’t come up with a new one, but just to remind. I propose to make small gifts for friends, girlfriends.

So, we buy baked plastic in the store for creativity. Any. I bought Sonnet and Premol. I will say right away: the first one is harder, it is more difficult to warm up, but after baking it is not as stone as the second one.

Necessary materials:

Baked plastic, a file, scissors, a rolling pin, a drinking tube, a vinyl napkin, metal baking dishes - we will lay soap dishes for "baking" on them.

Breaking up plastic. Roll out into a ball. We spread it on a file moistened with water. So the plastic will be better detached from the film. If you know how to mix colors beautifully, you can mix.

Flatten the lump with the palm of your hand.

From above we cover with a file sprinkled with water, and roll it out with a rolling pin to the desired thickness and size. I got 2-3 millimeters.

We remove the top file, put a vinyl napkin on the cake with the volume side so that the motif is clearly printed and roll it with a rolling pin, pressing the napkin into the clay.

Carefully remove the napkin. We get a nice print.

You can cut out a beautiful blank with cookie cutters. I left it like that, did not find a suitable one.

Usually in the soap dish there are holes for draining the water. We take a tube and make holes.

Then carefully remove the workpiece from the substrate-file and place it on a metal mold. I had cocottes and an ashtray. We lay the shuttlecocks beautifully, the clay is pliable.

Put in the oven and bake according to the instructions. Let cool in the oven.

After cooling, we take out, pack and give.

I've already set mine up.

Here are some small gifts.

To make it, we need:

Transparent plastic bottle;

Pencil;

Ruler;

Making a soap dish

First, rinse and dry the bottle. Put the bottle and soap next to each other. This will help you decide how long the future soap dish will be.

Draw two lines on each side with a pencil on the edges of the jar.

These stripes that you will draw will serve to form the legs of the soap dish. Their width should be about one and a half centimeters. In order to draw the lines, you can use a ruler or a soft tape measure so that they are even and straight.

Cut off the bottle with a knife. Cut the bottle with a knife into two halves along the glued seam. After that, one of the halves must be cut off at the edges, cutting off the bottom and neck. Cut along the outer lines. After the blank is partially ready, cut the bottle along the inner lines, cutting out short strips. Thus, you will have two legs and the rounded stand for the soap dish itself.

Now place the base on a flat surface and apply glue to its edges, to the bottom. Glue the legs. To be honest, at first I would recommend putting the legs on any flat surface, and only then put the base on top of them. This method will help to glue the legs to the soap dish so that everything is even and that it does not stagger.

Now it remains only to let the glue dry, and that's it, the soap dish is completely ready.

Soap today in stores sells all sorts of things: solid, liquid, packed in beautiful bottles, made in the form of graceful flower petals figured. Fragrant with various aromas: from caramel and chocolate to rose, fresh cucumber and sea breeze. Choose - I do not want. But in order for a soap bar or liquid substance to serve for a long time and not lose its appearance, you need to choose the right soap dish.

There is, of course, a sink where you can put a bar of soap. But this is done only in public bathrooms (and even then not in all). After all, it is not too beautiful, and it is very inconvenient. Wet soap slips, falls into the sink (or even onto the floor), softens and becomes unsightly. The soapbox is another matter. Neat, comfortable, the design does not spoil, it can even decorate it when combined with other accessories.

• Let's start with this - harmonious composition. And we will pick up the soap dish at the same time as other items. For example, a barbell and a curtain, a cup for brushes. Ideally, if all this is in the same style. Manufacturers do just that, releasing entire sets and kits (we will talk about this a little later).
• We also look at the dimensions of the bathroom. If there is enough space, you can buy an elegant and voluminous desktop or wall product. And when maximum compactness is required, we prefer models that do not take away extra space. Hanging over, putting on the mirror or on the sink.

Photo of an unusual soap dish

Product varieties

For different types of soap

Someone prefers to use solid soap, while someone prefers liquid.

• For the latter, you can purchase both elegant bottles with dispensers and wall-mounted dispensers.
• There is also a relatively new product - soap shavings. For her, special dispensers are also produced.

So proceed from the interests of family members. By the way, if they diverge, you can purchase a set where there are soap dishes for different types soap.

The now popular touch soap dish is an excellent invention for daily hygiene procedures. It will be discussed in the following video:

Mounting methods

desktop

For hard soap these will be all kinds of classic rectangular or oval soap dishes, as well as fancy shapes. They can be placed on a washbasin or a shelf. Simple Models may have a top cap and are suitable for travel. Often there is an insert or special bulges inside (so that the soap does not become sour).

• For example, the oval white porcelain model "Spirella Opera" (Switzerland) is equipped inside with four semicircular bulges. Price - 889 rubles. The rectangular beige Spirella Retro model with the same option costs the same.
• Various designer desktop products are also available. complex design, which are not very similar to a soap dish. For example, the “Classic Gold” model from the German brand “Hayta” resembles rather an elegant table lamp. A beautiful figured bowl of frosted glass. Soap is placed there. The price "bites" - 4.6 thousand rubles.
• As for liquid soap, desktop products for it are made in general style the rest are bottles with dispensers. They are also called dispensers. Models with a shiny chrome finish look stylish. Like the Ambiente Elite AX72851 dispenser from the Italian company Bagno & Associati. Its height is 23.7 centimeters, diameter - 6 centimeters, price - 6 thousand rubles.

Silicone bathroom tabletop soap dish (China)

wall

Such a product can be rigidly attached to the wall or be removable. The latter option may, for example, be a metal ring (fixed motionless), where a vial with liquid soap. The design is original and comfortable.

An example is the chrome Kalkgrund model from Ikea, which costs only 300 rubles. For 600 rubles you can buy a dispenser from the same series.

Photo of a wall-mounted soap dish "Kalkgrund" from Ikea

Magnetic

In this case, a magnet is built into the design of the holder, and a special metal part (included in the kit) is pressed into the soap. Due to this connection, a bar of soap floats in the air, which is very practical. It dries well, which means it is more economical.

An example of a fashionable and stylish magnetic variation is the chrome-plated brass Nostalgy model from the popular Czech brand FBS. The price is 2.2 thousand rubles.

Magnetic soap dish in the bathroom

On suction cups

More often than not, lightweight plastic soap dishes with vacuum suction cups are produced. They can be attached to a tile or to a mirror.

An example is the snow-white Stugvik model from Ikea from ABS plastic with an insert equipped with embossed stripes. The shape is rectangular. Price - 300 rubles.

Soap dish on suction cups "Stugvik" from Ikea

Product-lattice

It can be both desktop and wall. In the latter case, you need to hang the product so that there is a washbasin or bathtub below. After all, water will drip from wet soap through the grate.

The rarer the bars of the soap bar, the faster the bar of soap dries. The most popular similar soap dishes are wall-mounted chrome-plated.

• They, by the way, can be on a suction cup. Like a wall-mounted oval model of a German-made Wenko Super-Loc soap dish with a holder and two suction cups. Its price is a little over a thousand rubles.
• And here is a table-top soap dish-lattice, slightly similar to a hammock and standing steadily on four legs. The elegant Czech model "FBS RYNA RYN 037" costs 1.2 thousand rubles.

Modern desktop soap dish in the shape of a fish

Manufacturing materials

metal

In addition to stainless steel, bronze and brass are also used - both with and without chrome plating. In the latter case, products are made for classic and retro interiors. Like the brass Italian model "ROSE" (brand "Art & Max"), made in the form of a rose flower. Available in bronze and blackened silver. It costs 2.8 thousand rubles.

More modern chrome soap dish - oval desktop model from Ikea from the "Kalkgrund" series, which has an insert with a charming raised embossing and a hole for draining water in the middle. You can buy soap dishes for the bathroom in online stores for 400 rubles.

Veragio metal wall mounted soap dish

plastic

The most inexpensive products are made of plastic, easy to clean. They are very varied. And the soap dish breaks or gets tired - and it’s not a pity to throw it away.

Cute a budget option again from Ikea. A desktop transparent rich turquoise plastic soap dish for soap "Svartsjön" with convex crossbars inside will cost only 100 rubles.

Soap dish "Svartsjön" from IKEA

glass

Tempered glass is mainly used, so that the products are not only hygienic, but also durable. And beautiful. AT recent times there is a tendency to replace glass with acrylic - more modern material, which sometimes looks no worse, but stronger.

• An example of a glass soap dish is the oval domestic Aquaton Oxford model. Such a wall-mounted soap dish is finished with brass and chrome and costs 470 rubles.
• Desktop soap dish - European model "Harmonie" (brand "Artwelle"). It also includes brass parts finished in satin chrome. The price is 1.7 thousand rubles.

Modifications, additions and kits

What to buy for a soap dish? Many will answer this question without hesitation. A glass for brushes, a wall-mounted soap dispenser for liquid soap, possibly a mirror. For convenience, manufacturers have combined these products (or some of them) into kits and sell them in sets. It's also cheaper, by the way. Or you can purchase all of one item from one series.

• One of the most economical options is the plastic white and red Warpan set from Ikea. It has a cup, a dispenser, and a simple desktop soap dish. And everything will cost only 79 rubles (according to the action).
• And the budget white Stugvik series, also plastic, allows you to buy the necessary products (which are all attached to suction cups) one at a time. In addition to a glass, a dispenser and a soap dish, for 500 rubles you can buy a small (21 by 30 centimeters) mirror with hooks at the bottom.

However, if there is no need to save, you can pay attention to a series of accessories of German, Italian, Swiss production.

How to make a soap dish with your own hands?

And this section is for creative people. Who do not like to surround themselves with ready-made things. Please:

• If you want - fashion a soap dish from polymer clay. Any shape you like.
• Or take a plastic bottle, cut off the bottom and decorate the edges in the form of a flower. And then paint from a spray can.
• You can also from plastic bottle cut off a small lateral convex rectangular part and put it on four legs. In this case, the bulge should be facing down. Legs - any (from pieces of the same bottle, from wooden sticks, from rigid wire). In general, what will be at hand.

And finally, one piece of advice. In beautiful glass soap dishes, unfortunately, water often stagnates. We remove this shortcoming by taking diamond crown and punched a hole in the center.

The following video will help you make your own soap dish from superplastic:

Even more original ideas to create soap dishes at home contains the video below:

If you urgently need to add a touch of spice to, then try to quickly make a soap dish with your own hands. This is a creative process, with its own approaches, so wake up the cockroaches in your head and get down to business.

What materials may be needed?

• plastic bottle;
• gypsum powder or polymer clay;
• glue "Moment";
• paints for plastic and plaster.

It’s impossible to quickly make a soap dish with your own hands!

If you want to reinvent the wheel, then you shouldn’t: it has already been invented before you, but please invent the soap holder! Below is a photo of what the craftsmen did. Learn from experience or try to design something special, not like what you saw. True, in 5 minutes you will not make such a masterpiece, but in 15 - real time for creativity, if you have at hand for this essential tool and patterns are ready.

Soap dispenser from a plastic bottle

In addition to stands for a solid piece, you can also, for example, build a dispenser for a liquid detergent consistency in the country. Do you like this option? Then decide where you will start work.

By the way, such a dispenser may well carry 2 more loads: act as a holder for toothbrushes and be a stand for toothpaste or mouthwash.

Soap-swallow

When you urgently need to collect your husband on the road late at night, and there is no soap dish, as if it were a sin, then 2 bottoms from under a plastic bottle help out.

1. Cut off the bottom so that the soft walls protrude 5 cm up.
2. Find an unnecessary zipper for clothes in the house.
3. With wide stitches, sew a zipper to the edges of both plastic bowls.
4. You get a nice soapbox-swallow.

DIY soap dish from the bottom of small bottles

You can make a soap dish flower from plastic day bottles, but you just have to paint the cut object in the color you need. Pick up the paint in the store, just make sure that it is not afraid of water: it is best to choose enamels in spray cans for the car.

Gypsum soap dish

The most openwork soap dish is a gypsum soap dish, but you can only use it in decorative purposes, since gypsum is afraid of water and quickly collapses from it.

Do-it-yourself soap dish is an original element of the interior of the kitchen and bathroom, attracting the attention of others with its unique design. Against the background of high-tech analogues equipped with a touch screen and magnetic holders, unusual accessories in the form of shells, rosebuds and wicker boxes look especially elegant. Exclusive household items designed to accommodate soap, in tandem with others homemade parts furnishings - towel holders, shower curtains and rugs will allow you to create an individual interior genre for decorating a room for ablutions.

The original do-it-yourself soap dish is ideal for arranging not only bathrooms in the house, but also for decorating a washstand or a summer shower room located on the territory personal plot. If you are planning to make a soap holder designed for use on fresh air, then it is necessary to select raw materials that can withstand intense exposure to ultraviolet radiation and gusts of wind. Due to the continuous contact with water, to create beautiful accessories, it is necessary to use materials that have excellent moisture resistance and hygroscopicity. As a result correct selection raw materials and decorative elements You will be able to make a stylish and functional accessory.

Selection of materials for creating coasters for soap

A do-it-yourself soap dish allows you to add a personal touch to the design of shower rooms. In order for it to organically blend into the canvas of the stylistic concept, it is necessary to correctly select the basis and Decoration Materials to create an original piece of furniture:

• If the bathroom is done in a manner mediterranean style design, it is necessary to use shells, pebbles, river sand, dried seaweed, sea ​​stars and other themed decorations.
• If the ablution room is decorated in the traditions of country, chalet, ethno, colonial or eco-style, then preference should be given natural materials, embodying natural motifs: branches and log cabins of trees, dried flowers, acorn caps, sunflower or pumpkin seeds.
• If the shower room is decorated in a loft style, then you should pick up non-trivial items to decorate the bathroom soap dish: fragments of a drainpipe, clinker brick or an unhewn board.

Unique do-it-yourself soap dish from improvised materials for a long time will not lose its spectacular original appearance if its outer part is covered with quick-drying varnish, and the inner cavity of the container is decorated with a moisture-absorbing gasket. If you want to place this accessory on a wall or any other flat vertical surface, then you should make a magnetic soap dish with your own hands or equip it with strong suction cups. Magnetic holders able to withstand a heavy base with soap, and silicone suction cups - light products made of plastic or any other polymer.

When selecting materials for creating a soap holder, one should study in detail their performance properties, since moisture is incompatible with polymer clay, metal and wood. These types of raw materials can be used to decorate decor items designed to decorate the interior of a restroom, bath or kitchen.

Hand-made lessons on creating interesting interior accessories

A do-it-yourself soap dish will emphasize the talented abilities of the owners of the house and will become a noteworthy piece of furniture. Most in a simple way creating an exclusive soap tank is the use of plastic containers. These junk household items have high plasticity and moisture resistance. Therefore, they are great for creating a variety of decor items: planters, garden figurines, food dispensers and containers for storing various things.

To make a beautiful flower-shaped tank with wide open petals, you need to prepare the following materials:

• flaming gun - gas burner, which allows you to easily and quickly modify the shape of the plastic;
• container from under mineral water or carbonated drink;
• sharp scissors;
• ruler;
• green acrylic paint yellow color;
• a thin and wide brush with medium hard bristles made of squirrel hair.

From one plastic container, you can make two accessories for the bathroom - a reservoir and a dispenser designed to accommodate soap in liquid and solid states. As a result of the execution step by step instructions you will be able to make an original soap dish with your own hands, the photos of which can inspire true connoisseurs original accessories interior to complete a simple master class:

• Cut a plastic bottle into two halves. lower part should be used to create a stand, and the upper fragment of the container - for the dispenser.
• Measure 7 centimeters from the bottom of the bottle with a ruler and make a mark on the plastic surface.
• To the marked line, cut out the leaves of the flower of a triangular oblong shape. On sheet-like elements, it is necessary to make cuts diagonally on both sides.
• Make small incisions in the mark area, where at the final stage of the decor it will be necessary to carefully place the acute-angled end part of the flower leaves.
• Using a flaming gun at a distance from the bottom of the container, it is necessary to give plastic container the shape of the curved petals of the inflorescence.
• All parts of the product must be coated with green and yellow paint. After the paint has dried, you need to cover the soap holder with acrylic varnish.

Before you make a soap dish with your own hands, you should determine the size of the tank corresponding to the free space on the bedside table in the restroom or shelf hanging shelves In bathroom. With a lack free space to place it, it is necessary to supplement the product with silicone holders or magnets.

An alternative way to decorate this bath accessory can be the transformation of a ceramic flower stand. It will act as a base, which should be decorated in a chaotic manner with multi-colored fragments of ceramic or facet tiles. To fix them, use tile glue and tweezers. As a result, it will turn out to make an interesting accessory with a mosaic ornamental design.

DIY soap dish is a great gift for friends, colleagues and relatives. This practical item is an indispensable attribute of the bathroom and shower room. The Westwing Shopping Club has a large collection of various stylish interior accessories made from quality materials.