A woman accidentally washed her hands with a block of cheese for days after mistakenly thinking it was a bar of soap.

Miley from Vancouver, Washington, became confused after realising her soap wasn’t foaming as usual, before she discovered it was in fact a lump of cheddar.

After a few drinks one night she did what most of us would do - opened the fridge to fix herself a snack.

But days went by before she realised she'd actually left the cheddar out and had been using it to scrub her hands.

Miley said she normally uses liquid soap for her dishes, but didn't realise her mistake as she does keep a bar of yellow, unscented soap on the counter for her hands.


After realising her mistake, she posted a hilarious snap of the cheese to Reddit.

Miley wrote: "Just realised my soap wasn’t working because it’s literally a block of cheese.”

And explaining why it took so long for her to realise, she added: “I use a liquid soap for the dishes, bar soap like this is gentler on my hands after I do chores if that makes any sense [sic].”

But Miley admitted to Cafe Mom alcohol may also have played a part in the mishap.

She said: “It was a couple days of 'Why isn’t this foaming?!'


"I come to realise it was a dried-out square of Tillamook sharp cheddar cheese.

“I suspect I left it out when I was intoxicated and just forgot.”

Her Reddit post has racked up more than 100 comments, as people found her mistake hilarious.

One person asked: “But that must mean...... have we been eating Mac&Soap the entire week??”

Another added: “Does that mean you put the soap in the fridge?”

While a third said: “To be fair to you it does look like a block of soap.”