I have a bar of soap I use to clean the other bar of soap. |
Liquid soaps typically cost more and require five times the energy to produce and 20 times the energy for packaging (in plastic bottles). Not to mention the gigantic amount of unnecessary waste from each and every plastic bottle.
GOOD LORD, PUT BAR SOAP UNDER WATER FIRST IF YOU'RE SO CONCERNED. Like holy crap, you people have no commons sense. If you're such a germophobe that you are worried about dead skin and microbes on soap, run it under the water first to rinse the thin layer off before you put it on your body. Problem solved. Humans have been using solid soaps for almost 3000 years. Liquid soaps have all sorts of synthetic surfactants and dyes etc. |
We only use bar soap. I try to eliminate as much single use plastics and that was a no brainer.
I lather my hands. Kids do the same. For guests, I provide hotel sized wrapped bars. |
You all are crazy. Any germs from the previous person come off as you lather your hands. If there were any to begin with. If that person washed their hands properly there wouldn’t be any to speak of. |
My houseguests are hot, so I don’t mind. |
You all are insane and have no idea how soap actually works.
Soap. Kills. Bacteria. That’s why we use it. All that gross stuff you’re so terrified of? Is why we use soap. Do you think it’s just for the fresh scent like an Irish Spring? |
We use bar soap. Dh puts soap to body, and I lather and use my hands. Both the same but my soap lasts so much longer. He goes through a bar each week, it seems like.
I have never figured out how to use a washcloth/loofah. It sits there drying and getting stinky. Or I’ve added a new daily chore to my list. |
+1 Think of all the bodily fluids on that bar soap!!!! |
True - if they are hot, I guess it doesn’t matter. |
I think this is becoming an epic/classic DCUM thread.
The turning point was this PP: "I have a bar of soap I use to clean the other bar of soap." |
Bar soap only for showers and baths. I hate staying places where they only have body wash, ugh. I bring my own little bar when I go to people’s homes. No wash cloths, although I put them out for guests along with a brand new bar org soap and a tiny bath soap bottle usually from some hotel.
And for hand washing I have pump bottles which I refill from a big bottle. Same with dish soap. Just seeing how much plastic wrap we discard (frozen foods, bread bags, snacks) makes me anxious, and I try to reduce if I can. |
lol. Thanks. This is funny. |
who wedges a bar of soap right up their crack? You really should use a cloth to swipe clean all the little bile salts and poop particles that are in the puckering skin of your anus. You really are not getting a perfectly shiny hiney by just wedging a bar of soap into your crack. It’s not a thorough clean job. |
Bar on body.
What’s gross about soap? |
I can’t believe there are 8 pages on this topic. Thank u DCUM. |