How to Sew a Soap Bag

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How to sew a soap bag to hold your soap and lather up with in the shower or bath. This is a great item for children who can’t hold onto the soap well and it keeps soap from going down the drain. 

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When you have little children and you want them to use the soap, you start to get creative about how you entice them to love the soap. We have made felt soap which is a favorite, but it doesn’t solve completely solve the problem of kids dropping the soap over and over during their bath or shower.

The perfect solution for dropped soap is a soap bag with a small strap. The kids can hold onto it more easily and if you add a fun fabric, they can keep their own bar of soap in the soap pouch to use every shower. No need to share. Use the strap to hang the pouch to dry between uses. Once the soap is completely gone, you can throw the soap bag through the wash before refilling it with more soap.

This is also an ecofriendly way to keep from wasting the little slivers of soap left from the bar.

What do I even call these though? Soap bags? Soap pouches? Soap sacks? When I made them early on in blogging, I called the soap holders. The images, yikes. My photography has gotten a lot better. LOL.

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• Old towels to cut up or towel fabric
• Fun cotton or other type of fabric for the top
• Ribbon or elastic: I’m using scrap fold over elastic (FOE) because it was the perfect size for this.
• Optional: Snaps and snap pliers

How to Sew a Soap Pouch

Cut your towel fabric in a rectangle shape. I cut three to make three soap bags. Mine are 5×6″.

Next you need to cut two pieces of your top fabric. Mine are both 5×4″.

Finish the edges of the top fabric. These sides are the two that overlap so you can slip your soap inside. I turned the edges over twice, pressed, and sewed a straight seam.

Face your towel fabric right sides up. Fold a piece of ribbon, elastic, or FOE and place that on top. Place your two cuts of cotton fabric right sides down on top of this. The two cuts of cotton should overlap- I didn’t overlap mine much, but if you want to skip the snaps, then you’ll want to overlap them more.

Sew all the way around.

Turn your pouch right sides out through the big opening (where the cotton fabrics crossover).

Top stitch if desired.

Add snaps if desired.

Using these is super easy… I recommend using the side with the towel fabric because it will lather nicely.

Video Instructions on How to Sew a Soap Bag

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