Best kitchen cleaning product i've used....

BitterAndTwisted

I don't worry about SLS or any of those things: I DO worry about smearing my skin with tallow. Blech!

Soap is alkaline so has a very different PH to the natural oils on the skin. I believe that's partly why it works so well. I understand that soap-making was first developed in the Middle East centuries , maybe millennia ago. One shudders to think what our ancestors used for bathing, maybe nothing at all. I bet you could smell them coming from far beyond that hill.

Justamum

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

I don't worry about SLS or any of those things: I DO worry about smearing my skin with tallow. Blech!

You can get vegetable based soap - or make your own! (I want to start but I'm a bit of a procrastinator :rotfl:)

snozberry

Sue14 wrote: »

Me too, I think it's because it reminds me of my childhood, as my mum always used it for scrubbing the floors, which I also do occasionally.

It does - it reminds me of my beloved Gran. That and Wrights Coal Tar soap. Heavenly!

poet123

Ot but I love the smell of Cuticura talc....but using talc is not advised for laydees now so I resist!!

Justamum

poet123 wrote: »

Ot but I love the smell of Cuticura talc....but using talc is not advised for laydees now so I resist!!

I've never liked talc. Am I unusual?

poet123

Justamum wrote: »

I've never liked talc. Am I unusual?

I don't like any other talc just that one!!

Nicepeach

Toxic_Lemon wrote: »

We sometimes had Cussons Imperial Leather and I used to try to lather it up and put it on my face like they did in the adverts, and trying not to displace the label. I can remember the advert with the family on the private jet, bathing with it.

I'd forgotten about that Toxic Lemon but it came flooding back as soon as I read your post. It was a fab advert, almost as good as Joan Collins & Leonard Rossiter in the Cinzano ads!

Isn't it funny how smelling soap brings back so many memories?!

Since joining up here & reading through tips I've started using Stardrops (FANTASTIC STUFF!) & this also reminds me of my Nan. She always had a bottle (glass with little embossed stars on it) in the kitchen. She used if for everything from washing up to laundry... & with 7 children she had plenty of everything to clean! Lovely, lovely lady, wonderful Mum & Nan, she had a horrible life really when I think back but her children were here life & she never complained. Was quite content with "a good film & some nice sweets". Awwww!

MandM90

rosie383, my dad is Algerian and a savon de marseille lover too.

I don't know if it is a generation thing but coal tar soap, imperial leather and talc all smell awful to me. My mum buys imperial leather and, if she is out of handwash, the smell of my hands after visiting and washing my hands with it makes me feel a bit nauseous!