To provide a soap holder and washing tool for effectively using a small cake of soap, in order to solve the following problems: when a worn-down soap, which is too small to use alone, is pressed against to a new one for using it up so as not to waste it, they are sometimes separated from each other and a user tries it again and again.

A soap holder and washing tool includes a body and a lid. The body has a bottomed hole having an opening part formed in a central part of a sponge having a thickness of about 4 cm. The soap holder and washing tool includes a detachable sponge lid having slightly larger than the hole.