Shower gel and bath gel

emr_2

lucylou wrote:

thanks for all your answers.The next question is do you think these shower gel/bath gel are the same as liquid soap as well?:D

I reckon they are! Used liquid soap in shower one day as no soap handy and shower gel finished.

just now original source seem to be changing their packaging and my asda has lavender/teatree and basil/lemon bath gel at 99p (halfprice). it's great in the shower, and as someone mentioned, the net puffy things make it go for miles. in my local "poundshop" they do a pack of 5 netpuffys for £1, so that's good too! or you can always use a facecloth.

Austin_Allegro

No one seems to have pointed out that shower gels are a total rip off - just another way of getting us to waste money.

Gels are mostly water, foaming agents and colouring done up in fancy packaging. The bottles are designed so that you have to squirt a much bigger dollop out than you actually need, and most of that runs away in the water before you get a chance to slap it on.

Even a cheapo supermarket shower gel is about £60-£1 a bottle and they only last about a month or so.

By contrast, you can get economy soap 3 bars for 21p in Sainsbury's, or scented stuff 4 bars for 44p, and each bar lasts me about a month at the least.

As with most money wasting products, the public have been led by advertisers to believe that shower gels are 'normal' and that soap is somehow 'old fashioned' or even unhygienic.

Downsizing__for_sanity

I just save all the freebies I get from hotels - shampoo, shower gel, whatever etc...it all gets used as bubble bath! I don't really want to use their (usually) rubbish shampoo, but it still makes good bubbles! Also, I once sold a set of 3 complimentary toiletries (shampoo, conditioner, bath gel from a fairly posh hotel, admittedly) for a quid at a car boot! :j Tee hee - or is it unethical to sell cos I got it freee..?

HappySad

I have been using bubble bath as shower gel for ages. I looked at the ingredience of many bubble bath and shower gel bottles and it was exactly the same. If you want a fancy shower gel bottle then buy the bottle and fill it up with your favourite bubble bath..

frugalfairy_3

Yes, me too. Couldn't see the difference (and still can't). Oh and I use gels and bubbles as opposed to bars of soap because you don't seem to get the soapy scum on the shower doors like you do with bars. I think I read that tip here somewhere?

chickadee

I got a load of Imperial Leather bubble bath with a magazine subscription a couple of years ago and that has kept my family unwittingly in hand wash and shower gel since then. The bottles were huge so I have just filled up the hand wash/shower gel containers as they have been used up. We have had no problems at all! We don't take many baths, preferring showers so we would never have used all the bubble bath. It is all just detergent isn't it? Some have moisturising additives but at the end of the day they are all just variations on a theme.

Spendless

Gingham_Ribbon wrote:

gel.

And the value hair conditioner which made my head itch is a great shaving cream. My husband swears he'll never buy shaving products again.

Has he ever tried shaving soap? We discovered a dish of shaving soap, part of an old xmas gift set when doing the 'use it up challenge' and DH is using this. Shaving soap sticks were about 58p in Asda last time I looked, don't know how these compares to how much and how long shaving foam lasts, but the soap in the dish looks barely touched and he has been using it now for about 5-6 weeks.

Linda32

Hi, I've already decided to not buy any more shower gel once the couple of bottles I've got runs out. I shall use soap with one of those net scrunchy thingies instead.

This is a trade off against still using liquid soap at the sink, as I find soap leaves nasty yucky scum type stuff in the plug hole. That said the liquid soap is still Sainsbury's basics range - somthing like 40p for 500ml. I've know idea wether there all the same or not, but using this to wash hands, well we havn't died so far and I don't think we smell

jessicamb

I used to work in a factory that made these products and the formulations are almost exactly the same - the main difference is the quantity of water.

Fragrance costs are also a big cost driver - ie the more expensive brands usually have a similar formulation but a better smell (and probably have some extra nice bits - more moisturising etc) to justify the extra expense.

bumpybecky

I've been using tesco value bubble bath to fill up the carex hand wash dispensers for months and months

1litre value bubble bath = 21p