Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

PasturesNew

With my liquid soaps, the anti-bacterial hand wash ones, I've seen something strange that never used to happen. If you don't use them for, say, 2-3 months, then the top part that's in the top part of the squirty tube, goes brown. I cleaned one out just yesterday that'd gone like that. Makes me think it can't be very anti-bacterial if it can't keep itself nice and fresh.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

I don't like liquid soap, especially the creamy ones that look like semen when they squirt out.

Besides that, bar soap is a fraction of the cost.

I prefer bar soap too. But people grimace nowadays. Including RP :mad:. I have compromised. ( its always me compromising you'll note) we have liquid soap in the utility room and our own soaps upstairs.

Bar soap is amazing stuff, I store it in our clothes drawers not in the bathroom, it can make a bath really wonderful if you decide to be wasteful with the end bit. And it has a wonderful feel and despite the amazing scents in many wonderful liquid soaps equal quality solid soap always smells better IMO.

lostinrates

hjd wrote: »

Thanks for that delightful thought....
Problem is, a lot of basins have nowhere to put a bar of soap. The ones in our house don't. Also there seem to be baths like that - I suppose you are meant to have a shower first to get clean then simply recline in the bath afterwards.

That's true, and soap dishes can be stinky messes and pains to clean.

I dry off our bath soap and put it in the cupboard ( OTT?) down stairs when we had bar soap I left it on edge of utility sink.

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

I prefer bar soap too. But people grimace nowadays. Including RP :mad:. I have compromised. ( its always me compromising you'll note) we have liquid soap in the utility room and our own soaps upstairs.

Bar soap is amazing stuff, I store it in our clothes drawers not in the bathroom, it can make a bath really wonderful if you decide to be wasteful with the end bit. And it has a wonderful feel and despite the amazing scents in many wonderful liquid soaps equal quality solid soap always smells better IMO.

I find bar soap cleans better. Praps it's just me.

Wheezy_2

My wife is a big fan of those handmade artisanal soap bars with neem oil, butter, calendula, goats cheese... or whatever it is they put in them.
I use the Imperial Leather squirter.

PasturesNew

I buy whatever Poundland/similar's got on offer/cheapest/nicest looking but still cheap on the day I randomly decide I need a new one, which is a very rare moment. With it being just me there's no careless wastage that ever occurs... so stuff lasts ages.

In the bath I use shower gel and one of those plastic scrunchies.

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

I don't like liquid soap, especially the creamy ones that look like semen when they squirt out.

Besides that, bar soap is a fraction of the cost.

Thanks for that lovely thought!

Adds blue anti-bacterial liquid soap to shopping list.

I'm not OCD, but I always think of the unclean hands that have handled the bar soap before me.

michaels

Doozergirl wrote: »

I can't believe bar soap is posh. It feels dirty.

Oh dear, thinking that cleanliness implies poshness pushes you several rungs down the class ladder....

michaels

GDB2222 wrote: »

I don't like liquid soap, especially the creamy ones that look like semen when they squirt out.

Besides that, bar soap is a fraction of the cost.

Glad I am not the only one who thought this.

I always think liquid soap/shower gel was a brilliant triumph by the consumer goods marketing people, same product, slightly less effective, costs many times as much and lasts a fraction as long.

lostinrates

Anti bacc is banned here, and has caused rows. I honestly believe having things like anti bacc /hibiscrub on sale to general public from a shelf ( as opposed to for a reason over a counter ) fuels a problem we have psychologically that has helped with problems we have practically.

( here I did not compromise, but it know there is stuff hidden in room. Grrrrr)