Comments on: How can I reuse or recycle anti-perspirant bottles?

By: alison bailey smith

alison bailey smith — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:06:14 +0000

Be careful with putting any former deodarant containers in the microwave, check there is no metal in the mechanism to make it rise and fall.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:35:45 +0000

The problem with your last idea though, is that flour glue will only hold for a few days. So it would have to be for a one-day project, not to store. You may want to try rice glue instead. I haven’t tried it, but heard that it would hold for weeks.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:16:33 +0000

I use the roller balls as eyes in my craft projects. I do a lot of paper mache so I’ll try filling one with mache glue and see if it is less messy than using a paint brush.

By: Lizzy

Lizzy — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:50:06 +0000

use the ball for ping-pong?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 25 May 2009 07:10:23 +0000

There is a website called instructables.com and a member on there use a deodorant tube as housing for an LED flashight he made. I know you can’t go making a flashlight every time you have a deodarant tube, but it’s one thing.

By: Pram

Pram — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:26:14 +0000

I do the same as Mark with the alum :)

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:31:24 +0000

When I dropped and shattered my crystal deodorant stick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alum), I got an old deodorant bottle, put a few shards in and filled it with water. voila!
Glass bottles are easier to refill as the plastic housing for the ball just lifts off. For plastic bottles, you have to prose the ball out with a spoon.

By: SoloSalsa

SoloSalsa — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:34:42 +0000

I also want to recycle them. I use gel deodorant that comes in the same oval tube as solid sticks. I keep saving the empty ones, with hope that they can be recycled one day.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:10:52 +0000

Does anyone know if the deodorant/anti-persperant bottles (plastic) are recyclable at all? I throw mine away too…don’t want to trip up the recyclers but it seems such a waste.

By: How can I reuse or recycle unwanted deodorant and body lotions? » How can I recycle this?

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:16:34 +0000

[...] Deodorant bottles were one of the first things we featured on the site but Julie has a bit of a spin on that suggestions: Could you help me with what I could possibly do with toiletries such as deodorant, body lotion that have either not been used or of they have only once. These have either irritated the skin or just don’t like them now. [...]

By: Tamara

Tamara — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:24:12 +0000

roll the stick all the way back down, then

melt some old crayon bits with similar colors i.e. reds/pinks, blues, greens etc. in seperate pots or in old plastic containers in the microwave. pour the melted mixture into the clean deodorant tube and voila!

fat crayons for little fingers.

i might mention that i have a tiny old broken-handled pot that i got for free at a garage sale, so i’m not using a nice pot that i eat from… although cooled crayon will come off a pot…

By: Koshi

Koshi — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:50:32 +0000

Anyone have ideas about what to do for stick deoderant, the dry powder kind? They can’t get a second life as a glue-roller-on I don’t think…

By: Sumachy

Sumachy — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:59:07 +0000

I Clean them and then refill them with sun screen for my children to use at school.

By: snapper

snapper — Wed, 31 May 2006 19:54:15 +0000

my wife does the same thing with belach so she can just put a little amount of it on stains on clothes beforfe washing them.

By: sarar

sarar — Tue, 30 May 2006 14:14:43 +0000

I keep too in my stationery cabinet at work, one filled with thin pva paper glue, the other just filled with water. I used them for envelopes and stamps and the like that aren’t self-adhesive. Saves licking or looking for pritt stick.

-SaraR

By: LisaP

LisaP — Tue, 30 May 2006 13:50:10 +0000

fill them with a mixture of glue and glitter to make glitter pens for kids. Add a few drops of food colouring too. The glue has to be quite thin though. You can probably make the flour glue from the other article, but make it really thin.