Palmolive soap sticks problem

I squashed 5 sticks into a small hair cream tub - placed them sideways into the tub, then squashed down with the handle of a hammer -you just lean down onto the metal of the hammer and your bodyweight is then just concentrated on the small end. Squashes down easy enough I think that soap tub should last me a couple of hundred shaves! not bad for £2.50 lol

Pretty much solid soap then, no fannying around grating it either!
 
Even better, the former triple milled soap that is now quadruple milled.
A hammer plus physics.
 
Anyone tested heating a stick? Would love to see it melting like ice filling a container just like that! No mess! No soap lost!

It is commonly accepted to not heat any soaps that have tallow as bad stuff happens. However, we could perhaps convince Wayne M to try melting a stick utilizing a hobo's campfire while he waits for a bus to roll over his sticks as he stated down at the bus station.
 
I think I read somewhere that you could soften tallow-based soap safely by using a bain marie. Definitely don't try microwaving it.

For the sake of simplicity with a Palmolive stick I'd be inclined to just slice it and squish it.
 
The soap in the video is glycerine based; Palmolive has tallow in, so the bain marie won't work with that, grate and press it into a tub or slice it and use a slice in a bowl to lather from.

Oops, wrong link. Clicky
It doesn't melt to a liquid like melt'n'pour but it softens to a paste consistency and you can shape it in a bowl easy.