Bar soap is superior to liquid soap

You're right about the waste. It really is shocking, all that unnecessary plastic.

It's not about my experience. I never said that. I said people used bar soaps for 100+ and pipes were not routinely clogged. So. Something of perhaps an exaggeration by the plumber?

I was thinking of the wedding morning. He was astute in the power of advertising and product placement, coupons etc.

I use kinkind, the one that is made with cinnamon. I like it as it’s less heavy than liquid conditioners I’ve tried, and it has a nice but not overpowering scent.

YABU! Bar soap is disgusting- it looks nice displayed in a glass jar and unused but in reality it's impractical.

It's always got a soggy wet bit underneath it, it's not as good once it starts to get small, it gets pubes stuck in it, it makes skin feel dry, it leaves a line of scum around the sink, it's been touched by everyone who visits the bathroom and probably has bits of skin, poo, etc. stuck in it...yuck!

Give me a nice glass bottle filled with some L'occitane or Neils Yard hand wash any day!

Well it did cause a clog in their pipes. Just because you've not experienced it doesn't make it untrue. They live in a flat. Different pipes, different plumbing, different soaps...who knows? But they must only use liquid now.

Bar soap allows your evil Lady’s Maid to induce a fall in the bathroom and the loss of your longed-for male heir,
reducing your daughters to penury if they can’t inveigle the next in line into marriage…

It’s very easy to have a metal and ceramic dispenser and only buy refill pouches (recyclable) or fill up in one of those bulk places.

I've got a green Pears bar on the go. Its nice. Smells of lemon flower and not drying. Ive got a Nesti Dante one in the kitchen. I think it's lilac and wisteria.
I find some hand wash drying, such as the antibacterial ones. I have both out as I have friends and family that prefer hand wash.

Even if bar soap was worse (which I don't find true) I'd still use it as I couldn't live with the unnecessary plastic waste of dispensers.

I use Jo Malone bar soap my DH uses Pears. These are in our bathroom. Downstairs both in the loo and kitchen I have liquid soap.

Btw, the JM soap doesn't crack and lasts ages.

I switched to bar soap recently. Much better than liquid. And cheaper.
We have them in the bathroom even for guests.

Not sure about in the UK but my mom in the US still uses it. She's always worried it will cease so she buys it in bulk. She used it since I was a kid, and I can confirm it's the slipperiest bar of all the bars.

Thank you for this thread I've just bought four bars from Kensington Soap Company 😂.

I'm on my last bar of Neste Dante and have one donkey milk soap from the French Soap Company.

We've all been on bars of soap for years now. There was a discussion on style and beauty on here about eight years ago I tried it once and was converted. We like a nice bar though TK Max often has some gorgeous ones.

YANBU, I only buy bar soap now but dc and dh are liquid soap devotees and sneak it into the basket all the time.

I only really like bar soap if it's the likes of Savon de Marseille etc etc. Otherwise I prefer liquid as it doesnt seem to dry my hands out as much.

My dad has wrights coal tar soap by the sink at his place and it makes my hands sting with the dryness! Had the same problem with shield that we had as a kid.

In my bathroom/shower I have liquid soap and shower gel. Just tidier and less fuss imo.

I am a recent convert back to bar soap.

YADNBU. I much prefer bar soap. I also use it instead of shower gel and my skin is so much less dry. Also, even when I bought the moisturising liquid soaps, my hands were horrendously dry. I didn’t believe it was the liquid soap to start with, but I read something online about it being very drying, so experimented with bar soaps, and the difference in my hands is incredible. Much cheaper on hand cream too!

Edited to add - I do wish you could still get those little stainless steel ‘racks’ to put bar soap on. Everywhere I go has dishes and I hate the way the water collects in them. What in earth has happened to those little racks that were everywhere when I was a child?

I've not put my scallop shell in the dishwasher, I didn't think it would last as not designed for hot water. The ridges on the shell are brilliant for getting my foundation out of the make up sponge. I just rub the sponge over the outer ridges.

I can't go back to ceramic soap dishes now, they all have to be shells of some sort from the sea. Unfortunately I have a tiny basin in the downstairs loo and there isn't room for a soap dish so I have to have liquid there

Tell that to the men in my life 😅

Or just rinse the sink with hot water from the tap.

A bar of soap causes scum in the sink, which is harder to clean- obviously not a problem if you have a weekly cleaner 🙄

Anyway. I think some people on here should have paid more attention in Science, going by the claims about skin and bacteria etc!

I dislike most liquid soaps and if they're moisturising then I particularly dislike them. They don't feel like they wash off properly

And I agreed. Soap does not clog pipes. Oils and fats do, as I experienced when I hadn't refined my own soap recipe enough. Me. One person.

I'm not sure why you think that means I'm saying soap clogs pipes when I explained that in my own experience it was the superfat.