using all my wonderful soap slivers [SEP] a friend makes soap which is excellent so i refuse to throw away the slivers but they were piling up and impossible to use so i was looking for an item like this and i am perfectly happy with it i wrap the wash cloth around the bag get it quite wet and lather the cloth exactly as with a bar of soap pulling the string out of the way works great and saves all that soap i will probably put bigger bars in it as the smaller ones disappear since i see no reason to wait for sliversi find the fabric too abrasive for using the bag as a wash cloth but can see how others might choose to do that i can see how the string would be useful to prevent dropping the soap in the future dries just fine and blue color did not bleed onto wash cloth