Last week I showed you how to make a mason jar light fixture. This week I will continue with my love of mason jars and show you how to make a mason jar foaming soap pump.
All you need is a foaming soap bottle and a mason jar.
First, take the pump piece off the bottle. Then cut the top off the bottle.
Leave a little more of the bottle than I did. It will make it easier for you to make your soap pump. Your cut doesn’t need to be perfect. You won’t see it when you finish.
Next, take the pump piece and stick it in the bottom of the soap bottle. Place a piece of tape (or two) across the open top of the bottle to create a place for the soap pump to rest while you spray paint. I placed rocks in the bottom of the soap bottle for stability. I didn’t want it to fall over while I spray painted.
I used Oil Rubbed Bronze paint. It looks gold in this picture, but it’s really not. I also placed the mason jar band on the bottom of the soap bottle and spray painted both items at the same time. This worked really well.
While the paint was drying, I worked on the lid. I took the top piece of the soap bottle (the part I cut off earlier) and traced around it on the mason jar lid. The hole needs to be just big enough for the top of the bottle to poke through.
Drill a hole in the lid.
Then use tin snips to finish cutting.
After the paint on the pump piece was dry, I attached the pump piece and the top of the soap bottle.
Poke the soap bottle top through the hole in the mason jar lid. Then tighten the pump piece on. This is the step where I wished I hadn’t cut as much of the soap bottle off. It would have been a little easier to grab onto and tighten the pieces if I had left a little more of the bottle.
Then I added about this much soap to the mason jar.
And filled it the rest of the way with water. The same steps I used to make foaming hand soap earlier.
I stirred the soap and water together and then placed the top on the jar. I don’t recommend shaking the jar to mix the soap and water because some of it will come up out of the top through the hole in the lid.
My mason jar foaming soap pump.
I’ve been using it in my kitchen for several weeks and I L-O-V-E it!
Project Cost = FREE
- Mason jar = Free. I used a mason jar that I had used previously for making pickles.
- Soap pump = Free. I used a soap pump that I already had.
- Spray paint = Free. I used spray paint that I already had. You can find it at Lowe’s for about $4.
You could also spray paint the jar for a different look.
What do you store in your mason jars?
~Laura
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I LOVE this idea!!!!!! It looks so wonderful, I can’t wait to give this one a try
Thanks, Rita! Have fun making one of your own!
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I love your mason jar soap pump! I have to make one. Thanks for sharing! I live in an old house and unscrew my hanging lamp globes (they are hanging from a chain above my stair well)and screwed mason jars on them! Love it!
Thanks. I bet your mason jar light looks amazing! Don’t you just love mason jars?
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Laura
I did the entire thing EXACTLY as you posted. Even bought the tinsnips and the exact paint you used. It came out beautifully and I even want to paint my light fixture and shower rod the same way BUT where I ran into an issue …A BIG issue is when I used the pump all of the paint in that area of the pump portion peeled right off on the first push. And I let it dry way longer than the can said before using it.
So what is the issue here? and I’m hesitant to use it on my shower rod now for the same reason. When I slide the curtain back and forth will it peel right off?
I’m really diggin this for my bathroom it can really use an easy update .. PLEASE HELP!
Thanks
Chrissie
Oh wow! I have no idea. The paint on my pump lasted months and months before it started flaking off a little bit. I just repainted the pump with no problems. Maybe it was the brand of paint you bought. Did you check to see if it was recommended for plastic?
I don’t know how well spray painting a shower curtain rod would work. I’ve never tried it before, but I would have the same concerns about the paint peeling off from the wear.
Sorry I’m not more helpful on the paint situation. I just know what worked for me.
Good luck!
Thanks for the help for sure.. yeah I don’t know if it was the exact brand I didn’t notice the brand you bought, but yes it did say it worked on plastic. Looked beautiful and was the exact color NAME that you used for sure. Just one push down and it ALL came right off. No problem .. trial and error but I do love the look now I just have to figure out how to pull it off.
The only other thing I can think of is to let it set for at least 24 hours before using and see if that helps or lightly sanding the plastic, just enough to rough it up a little so that the spray paint might stay on better.