Anonymous wrote:Ew.

You guys share bar soap with random houseguests?

? I’d be grossed out as a guest (and maybe a little creeped out) if people offered their used bar of Ivory. That’s like offering your loofah full of dead skin for guests taking a bath.

On the rare occasion I use bar soap, like in a hotel, I rub the bar on my arms and then lather elsewhere with my hands.

My houseguests are hot, so I don’t mind.

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.

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HOW DOES SOAP GET DIRTY?!?

If you rub a bar of soap between your butt cheeks after pooping, peeing, sweating all day and expect it to me germ free by the time you wash your face in the morning… think of all the people who leave hairs on the soap. No one is scrubbing the soap clean, the bacteria is layered and drying on the top.

I think you need to start thinking about the bar of soap the same way you think about a towel. You don’t take the towel, use it on your bum, then right on your face the next day. You wash it between uses. Same thing with a bar of soap. When you lather it and rinse it, it’s clean. There is no layering of bacteria on soap that you lather each time.

I don’t do this myself but this isn’t unsanitary.

I have a bar of soap I use to clean the other bar of soap.

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Anonymous wrote:HOW DOES SOAP GET DIRTY?!?

If you rub a bar of soap between your butt cheeks after pooping, peeing, sweating all day and expect it to me germ free by the time you wash your face in the morning… think of all the people who leave hairs on the soap. No one is scrubbing the soap clean, the bacteria is layered and drying on the top.

I think you need to start thinking about the bar of soap the same way you think about a towel. You don’t take the towel, use it on your bum, then right on your face the next day. You wash it between uses. Same thing with a bar of soap. When you lather it and rinse it, it’s clean. There is no layering of bacteria on soap that you lather each time.

I don’t do this myself but this isn’t unsanitary.

Anonymous wrote:Can't remember the last time we had bar soap in the house. It gets so gross.

What's gross is your pollution of the plant with all of the plastic you waste from your liquid soap.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/18/chemical-pollution-has-passed-safe-limit-for-humanity-say-scientists?s=04

And we wonder why fertility is declining in the world when we are exposed to so many chemical/plastic pollutants. The plastic bottle you use for soap doesn't magically disappear. It is often incinerated or shredded and thrown into the Earth where it never breaks down, or gets into waterways.

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Anonymous wrote:HOW DOES SOAP GET DIRTY?!?

If you rub a bar of soap between your butt cheeks after pooping, peeing, sweating all day and expect it to me germ free by the time you wash your face in the morning… think of all the people who leave hairs on the soap. No one is scrubbing the soap clean, the bacteria is layered and drying on the top.

We get it, "Germs!"

Anonymous wrote:HOW DOES SOAP GET DIRTY?!?

If you rub a bar of soap between your butt cheeks after pooping, peeing, sweating all day and expect it to me germ free by the time you wash your face in the morning… think of all the people who leave hairs on the soap. No one is scrubbing the soap clean, the bacteria is layered and drying on the top.

Anonymous wrote:Ew. You guys share bar soap with random houseguests?? I’d be grossed out as a guest (and maybe a little creeped out) if people offered their used bar of Ivory. That’s like offering your loofah full of dead skin for guests taking a bath.

On the rare occasion I use bar soap, like in a hotel, I rub the bar on my arms and then lather elsewhere with my hands.

What if their is hair and particles on the soap? You would still use it? Gross

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Anonymous wrote:I use bar soap and rub all over my body. However, I rub the soap between my butt cheeks last.

But where do you use it first, the next time you shower? Your face? So essentially you are putting fecal matter on your face.

+1

HOW DOES SOAP GET DIRTY?!?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm trying to break my teen of using bar directly on his body (if soap is even being used at all). Do people rub the bar right up their derriere crack? I'm team washcloth all the way.

Please don't your DS into a neurotic adult.

+1000000

I can’t imagine advising my teenager on how to use a bar of soap. Oh my!

Anonymous wrote:Ew. You guys share bar soap with random houseguests?? I’d be grossed out as a guest (and maybe a little creeped out) if people offered their used bar of Ivory. That’s like offering your loofah full of dead skin for guests taking a bath.

On the rare occasion I use bar soap, like in a hotel, I rub the bar on my arms and then lather elsewhere with my hands.

I had a high school teacher who couldn’t stand the thought of baths. He called it “sitting in a soup of your own filth.” I couldn’t get that out of my head when I had to travel with my toddler twins. I packed an inflatable tub so their precious little butts didn’t touch a hotel tub. 😂

I'm glad I live alone and never invite anyone over. I've never even thought about these things.