Bar soap is superior to liquid soap

Have you been to port sunlight? For the early manufactures of soap, public health was also a concern. Soap was used to wash clothes. However Lord Leverhulme created the first influencers, he made his soap aspirational via the paintings he had commissioned. But he also built an amazing place to live. Looking at it, it must have been a dream come true to thise who got out of the Liverpool slums. He also voluntarily gave pensions and pushed OAPs for all through parliament.

I've always preferred bar soap. It doesn't have to be the fancy stuff, though I like those as well. I feel cleaner after using a bar of soap, rather than shower gel.

I found that once I'd been using it for a week, bar soap dried my skin out less than shower gel. It seems to keep my skin in more of a natural balance - neither dried out nor a bit greasy/slimy.

And do those fancy Japanese toilets soap up your bum before hosing you down?

I'll stick with soap thanks. I'm not happy to just rinse shit off and call it clean without something to actually remove it

At the start I used soap on my butt yeah but now no. Water contains loads of metallic ions that helps with oil breakdown, enough for poop on skin anyway. Why do bidets exist if water can't wash poop off skin?

Although would say that some sweatiness smells worse than others!

Plant - are you feeling OO this morning? You are indicating that YOU know something no one else does and we are nuts to use either a 50p bar of soap or a £30 Aesop hand wash. When Covid was rife I didnt hear any of the scientists saying just use water! No need for soap.

I have not used soap on my pits for 10 years, I use deodorant but no smell. I did used to get bad BO. I use those charcoal gloves things and give myself a scrub in the shower. I don't know what to say, I don't use soap, I do not smell.

lool, people who habitually don’t wash with soap absolutely do smell sweaty. I think when you stop you probably just get used to the smell and have nose blindness.

I use aqueous cream to wash my bum and vulva. Never soap or shower gel.

My skin is really dry and I haven't found a bar soap that doesn't dry it even further. I have to use that awful Dove stuff which is slimy and smells like air freshener 🤢

If anyone can recommend a moisturising bar soap I'd be grateful.

Dude, water washes sweat off. It's just salt, salt desolves in water.

Sweat stinks because of bacteria. You can't wash bacteria off with plain lukewarm water.

Or do you not use soap on your armpits because it apparently dissolves? What about after going to the toilet, germs still dissolve?

Poo is fatty. It doesn't wash away with water
Would you get shit on your hand and wash it off with just water?

A) it does (with a bit of a scrub)
B) What is body odour? It's a bacteria producong smelly metabolites that's outcompeting all others that don't. Whe you use soap you kill the beneficial non smelly bacteria and select for the most vile ones. You smell LESS when you don't use soap. It's mind blowing.

Water might wash sweat off but you need to wash your bum with soap
It also doesn't wash any body odour smell off

If you can afford something and like it and want to buy it, why on earth would you need to justify it?

Dude, water washes sweat off. It's just salt, salt desolves in water.

Do you think you get as dirty as a Babylonian? Did Babylonians have access to running water at home whenever they needed it? This is difficult, but I, and many others, have not used soap in showers or baths for many many years (10 for me) and KNOW it is unnecessary. You have only used soap and THINK you need it whereas I KNOW you don't. I get you will be all defensive because your status quo is being attacked so sorry about that, but please try opening your mind to new concepts. It's not a conspiracy, just capitalism.

Always bar soap for hand washing, I hate liquid soap. Currently using Shield in the family bathroom and Imperial Leather in the en suite, both of which make me feel quite nostalgic. I bought some olive oil soap from a Turkish bath (actually in Turkey) years ago and it was beautiful but I've never managed to find one as nice since then.

Shower gel in the shower though as I find bar soap leaves a scummy residue on the shower screen.

I use bar soap for my underarms. Peri has made me a bit whiffier than normal and it was recommended on here to use bar soap there. I used Shield (reminds me of my nana when I was little) and currently got a bar of Imperial Leather for the nostalgia too - though that doesn’t smell like I remember sadly. I have a Joseph Joseph soap dish and none of mine ever get soggy or cracked, as it drains. I get the occasional bit that needs a wipe from being put on the dish when still wet but that’s it. I do also use Aveeno Baby wash as shower gel as everything else seems to make me itchy.

We also have hand wash in the kitchen and at the bathroom sink. I have Joseph Joseph dispensers that I buy the Carex Sensitive refill pouches for.

I think all those worried about how hygienic bar soap is might want to think how hygienic it is to get up from dealing with a bad bout of diarrhoea and put a dirty hand on the plastic dispenser to access the liquid soap. Which I think is probably how I contracted e-coli too.

You can’t have washed your hands sufficiently then. Your hands should be clean after you’ve actually washed them.

I use both
Bar and liquid soap on the sinks
Wash with bar soap then follow with shower gel or shower oil

This... and please god, use it on your whole body - your chest, midsection and feet still sweat in summer

A few years ago I had a friend to stay with me for while her partner was having major surgery in my local teaching hospital. While visiting the hospital she picked up an e-coli bug that was going round. I think all those worried about how hygienic bar soap is might want to think how hygienic it is to get up from dealing with a bad bout of diarrhoea and put a dirty hand on the plastic dispenser to access the liquid soap. Which I think is probably how I contracted e-coli too. At least with bar soap you might touch it with contaminated fingers but the whole process of running it and your hands under a tap should leave it clean when you put it back in the soap dish.