Comments on: How can I reuse or recycle moisturiser tubs?

By: Olia

Olia — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:22:34 +0000

Make it into a candle.

By: Lizzy

Lizzy — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:09:17 +0000

60% is absorbed, in fact, so If you wouldn’t be happy with eating three fifths of a pot of hand cream – don’t put it on your skin.

By: Lizzy

Lizzy — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:07:50 +0000

Fill two with hot water for glove warmers – a bit like hot water bottles , so that they’re toasty warm by the time you put them on – could also be a good reuse for excess hot water. would also work with socks and boots and slippers and pretty much anything small.

By: Alice

Alice — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:31:12 +0000

Quite a lot is absorbed through your skin, so anything you’re happy to use for skin care I wouldn’t worry too much about accidentally eating traces of.

They might be good for carrying soap in a washbag when travelling?

By: Bobbie

Bobbie — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:29:59 +0000

Something else: After removing the label I use a product called Goo Gone to take the sticky glue off. If anyone knows of a homemade solution for this I’d appreciate.

By: Covert_Operations'78

Covert_Operations'78 — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:15:47 +0000

I clean and reuse all of mine. Some of the uses are as follows:
- Needlework kit, to sort and store buttons, pins, buckles etc in.
- To store seeds and reusable items such as twist-tie bits, ribbons, screws, hooks, odd pieces of tile, rubber band etc in. I just label them properly to make things easier to locate next time.
- As paint pots.
- Stuff a foam sponge into one and use it as a pincushion.
- To store sweets and chewing gum pellets in to stop the sweets from getting squashed in my pockets or backpack. Prevents melted sweets from getting all over the rest of my things, too.
- As bead sorters for my mum, who used to make ‘knitted’ bead necklaces.

By: Bobbie

Bobbie — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:45:37 +0000

In the U.S. most of the manufacturers are making lids that are fastened to the bottle/jar where you can’t remove it. I’m not sure what their logic is but it makes them unreuseable. I save the ones that I’m able to and they are perfect for my homemade hand cream and sun blocker.