Soap v Handwash

MaxSusie

DH & I use soap but the DD & DS's all like shower gel. I use liquid soap in the kitchen as it's less messy than having a bar of soap knocking about. I usually buy them in Poundland at 2 for £1 then fill up with Smartprice bubble bath as and when. I buy the shower gels there too

MaxSusie

alex21 wrote: »

I never find curly hairs stuck to my soap dispenser!:rotfl:

This is one of the reasons my DS1 gives for not using soap :rotfl:

I tie a bar of soap in the bottom of a cut off tights leg to the outside tap in the summer to use when we've been gardening. It works a treat and the material gives just enough 'scrub' to get the dirt out :T Also just remembered to cut if off tomorrow before it becomes a little frozen lump in the cold weather that's coming!

Butterfly_Brain

We use soap in the bathroom and liquid soap in the kitchen.
I find that if you keep your soap for a while in a cupboard or drawer it hardens up and lasts for ages. As for curly hair in soap :eek: we all have our own bar.

MaggieBaking

I find soap much more drying on my hands than hand wash. It might be less money saving but I use shower gel in a dispenser as I just find soap unappealing, especially in someone else's house.

I find it a bit urgh when it's soggy, and uncomfortable when it's dry and hard.

Vibrant

I don't get this soggy soap idea. I've never known the soap to go soggy???
I use Asda's cheapo soap, discontinued now, but it was 3 bars, for about 20p. Fortunately I stocked up and have enough for a year, or so.
A soap saving tip, when the bar gets a bit small, wet it and stick to the new bar and leave to dry.

sonastin

OH decided to move to using soap recently. Despite being kept on the rack in the shower (so no puddles), it ended up sooooooooooo squidgy that it was melting through the bars and leaving dodgy looking dollops of soap all over the sponge hanging below. Before he'd even used up half of the bar, it was flushed down the toilet because it got too squishy and he's back on shower gel again now.

Pink.

Hi Val,

Imperial leather soap for me every time, but my daughter hates soap (reasons only known to herself) so we have both soap and handwash beside every sink.

As this isn't strictly an Old Style topic I'll move your thread over to the Health, Beauty & Fashion MoneySaving board later so that you can get more input.

Pink

shandyclover

I'd started a very smiliar thread in health and beauty today (before I saw this one!) since my mum thinks going back to bar soap would sort out my winter dry skin. My DD's think it's disgusting, but then they've really grown up with liquid soap. We see how they do when I put a bar of something expensive like LUSH in their christmas stocking.

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I have both In the kitchen and bathroom I have a dispenser which I fill up with my Dermol 200 stuff which I get on prescription from the Dr. for my arm as my right arm has to be well mousterised daily to keep the skin in good condition as I have secondary lyphodema which causes swelling .But I also have a bar of Imperial Leather soap in a dish which is also used for handwashing at times .As my handwash stuff is free as i'm well over pension age my soap works out quite inexpensive and visitors and my family use it .The prescription stuff I get is in both shower and bath formula which is handy

Softstuff

We're soap all the way here. I appreciate having hand-wash in a bathroom, but we go for the even cheaper option of using the little hotel soaps by the sink, and use a full bar in the shower. This way we don't end up with soggy soap at the sink. I collected bars back when I stayed in hotels for business, and now buy them at charity shops for about 5c (3p) each, it seems there are a lot of people who stay in hotels around here!