Travelers shocked to know what really happens to your leftover hotel soap

Travelers have been left mesmerized after finding out what really happens to leftover hotel soap.

Science Insider recently took to TikTok to lift the lid on what goes on at soap recycling factory Clean the World which has its headquarters in Orlando, Florida.

The facility is capable of churning out thousands of bars an hour but viewers were left stunned by the process.

It involves leftover soap getting collected, sanitized, grounded into soap ‘noodles,’ third party lab tested and cut into bars before then getting boxed and delivered to impoverished people around the world. 

Science Insider recently took to TikTok to lift the lid on what goes on at soap recycling factory Clean the World which has its headquarters in Orlando, Florida 

The facility is capable of churning out thousands of bars an hour but viewers were left stunned by the process 

More than 8,100 worldwide hotels ship their leftovers to be re-purposed for good causes – and the recent TikTok clip detailed exactly what this entails.

The detailed process starts off with a refiner that has an appearance similar to a spinning cheese grinder – but for soap. 

The machine cleans the dirt and hair from the soap’s top layer and creates thin ‘noodles.’

Those ‘noodle’ strands then get heated in water and bleached for ‘seven to eight minutes’ in order to sanitize them.

The transportation conveyer belt then brings the newly created soap parts to a final refiner before its molding. 

Large slabs of soaps are finally created before being resized into smaller bars by factory workers.

The factory’s Hospitality Partners include Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott, Mandarin Oriental, IHG, Best Western, Hard Rock and Kalahari to name just a few.

Clean the World states: ‘By adopting our program, our partners enhance their brand and sustainability efforts by serving as the backbone of our mission to save lives around the world while reducing landfill waste.’

It involves leftover soap getting collected, sanitized, grounded into soap ‘noodles,’ third party lab tested and cut into bars before then getting boxed and delivered to impoverished people around the world 

Clean the World states on its website that: ’70 million bars of soap have been distributed,’ and ‘127 countries have been served since 2009.’

The brand claims that its overall mission is ‘the global hygiene revolution.’ 

It provides soap to children and family in impoverished countries that have a ‘high death rate, due to acute respiratory infection (pneumonia), and diarrheal diseases (cholera), which are two of the top killers of children under five.’

Clean the World’s purpose is to save millions of lives around the world through the help of one household item – soap.