TIGHTENING economic conditions in the USA have prompted a restaurateur in Ocean City, Maryland to start a side hustle by making soap out of bacon grease.
The diner owner, Sam Delauter, says he's been hit hard by rising prices for ingredients, and used an idea from his great-grandmother who made her own soap to help survive the Great Depression in the 1920s.
"We're frying off so much bacon each day, and I saw all that grease," he said.
"I called my grandfather and he walked me through the recipe, and I came up with something I really liked."
Meat-lovers will perhaps be disappointed to find that the fat is thoroughly cleaned so it no longer smells like bacon - and he then adds flavours like rose, geranium, clove and lavender.
In a further masterpiece of recycling and reuse, the enterprising Delauter also flavours some of the soaps with leftover coffee grinds from his eatery, with the new products proving so popular that as well as selling them to customers in the diner he's launched a website with nationwide delivery at bumblesoap.com.
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