Thrifty Thursday: Frugal Deodorant Trick

Okay, so I was feeling really frugal when I decided that I would try this one out and I didn't think that I would admit it to family and friends but here it goes.  Have you ever gotten to the end of the deodorant and it started scraping you so you threw it out (sort of sad because there seemed to be a lot more that you couldn't use)???  I have the answer!!

If you save your old sticks of deodorant that are at the bottom,  you can re-purpose them to a new stick. I had five sticks already at the bottom (four older ones and the one that I was actually using in the morning)  I scraped the top off with a spoon that I don't use (not sure about the touching food after so I thought it was safe to use something that I don't use in food).  The remaining looked like this:

I put it in a container that I thought would keep it all contained because I didn't really know what would happen when you melted deodorant.  See my ice tea spoon :)

Then I filled up the container with all of the containers and I decided to use a toothpick to get the rest out of the container, which gave me a lot of stuff in the container.

And really empty deodorant containers remained.

I took the one remaining container of deodorant to the bottom so that it would be ready to fill.

Then I put the container in the microwave for 20 seconds, and got out a liquid ready for pouring.  It melted really easily and evenly.

Then I poured it in the deodorant container and it filled it almost to the top!  Plus or minus a little spill on the side.  I put it in the fridge because the container was a little hot and I didn't want it to spill.  I chilled it for a few minutes to let it set and left it on the counter while I went about my day.

I came back to look at it and it looks just like a new container of deodorant where you just have to twist the dial and it comes up out and ready to use.

If you don't believe me, check out this post!!

I think that this is more green than frugal but who am I to judge.  It saved money and the environment by not wasting more than we have to.  A new container of deodorant that I use is normally $3.99 but I usually wait until they are on sale for $0.99 and stock up on a few.  Sadly, I only have one spare currently in the cupboard so I am super excited to try out this "new" deodorant and see how it holds up.  It might have saved me until the next time it goes on sale so that I can stock up :)  Worth the few seconds to try if you want to do it once or twice.  I haven't started to put a date on my deodorant so I don't even know how long one container lasts... next on my list :)  Hope this has left you with some good ideas and not questions about my sanity!!