Shower gel and bath gel

jessicamb

voucher_queen wrote:

On the same theme

I would assume looking at the earlier postings that I would be able to use old shampoo (made my scalp nasty) in a handwash container?
Does anyone know how much water to add to it - as I tried it once before and it clogged up the dispenser

Or does anyone have any other ideas?

Probably although the formulations are quite different (main ingrediant still water though!) If the shampoo is one of the cheaper ones (approx 60p ish) they are quite thin anyway so you wouldn't need much. Thinking that though some of the really thick ones might be difficult to mix and keep together rather than it seperating?

tawnyowls

Becles wrote:

If you get one of those shower scrunchie things, it really foams the shower gel up. I can do my whole body with a 10p sized blob of shower gel on the scrunchie, so a bottle lasts for ages. I'm still working my way through what I got given at Christmas

They're fabulous, and our local pound shop (actually called the 99p shop, so even more savings:D ) has packs of these containing two scrunchies (I think also called wash nets), both with hanging loops, plus another on a wooden handle, plus a big plaited one with handles for washing your back. Not bad for under a quid!

I have tried using bath foam,but I find it's very runny and tends to leak out of the shower gel bottles (I refill old Radox ones with the hooks). I've found Aldi and Lidl shower gels very good and very thick.

cwp500

lucylou wrote: »

I went to Boots yesterday and noticed that Palmolive shower gel was on bogof at £1.29 for 250ml. I bought it and on my way out I saw that their bath gel was on offer as well £1.65 for 500 ml.To be perfectly honest I think I could have used their bath gel and saved money as I think they are probably the same stuff.What do you all think?I think I have been wasting money on shower gel:eek:

love the smell of the palmolive stuff but am convinced the two are identical. check the ingredients on the label.

I always refill handwash from bath foam, it smells and feels exactly the same.

I also keep an empty handwash bottle for refilling with soap ends. rather than throw em down the plug hole, keep them and they make excellent cheap handwash for the garage or garden.

RoseFairy

and if you buy the cheap Tesco brand of bubble bath - ithink its about 43p for a litre bottle - some great colours and smells too - and use those bath sponges/scrunchies that bottle lasts nearly 18months - the kids love it too!

cwp500

lucylou wrote: »

I went to Boots yesterday and noticed that Palmolive shower gel was on bogof at £1.29 for 250ml. I bought it and on my way out I saw that their bath gel was on offer as well £1.65 for 500 ml.To be perfectly honest I think I could have used their bath gel and saved money as I think they are probably the same stuff.What do you all think?I think I have been wasting money on shower gel:eek:

Just read the labels. Boots own range of value hand wash is very cheap for about 350ml. Their bath creme is exactly the same stuff; colour, smell, texture and the ingredients on the label seem identical.

The price of 1 litre of bath creme is only about 15p more than 350ml of handwash.

buy the litre of bathcreme refill the hand wash 3 times and save a small fortune over the year.

Its true of the named brands also. They mark up the small bottles to squeeze extra profits from customers who dont read the labels.