Bar soap is superior to liquid soap

so big pharma marketing influenced the ancient Babylonians?
Sure, no-one needs all the endless 'products' we are sold but the human use of soap to keep clean predates all that by thousands of years, there's no conspiracy there.

Water is NOT enough to clean you!

Bar soap is better for environmental and financial reasons. And it isn't dangerous to use:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2249330/

I prefer soap in the shower - I use castile soap from All Natural Soap which is just solid olive oil and doesn't upset the skin's balance (and olive oil's been used as soap since at least Ancient Greece, so definitely not a fad!). Have liquid for hands but keep meaning to experiment with bars, I wouldn't want to share bar soap though so would always have liquid available. I do have Aesop in the kitchen but try to remember to hide it when guests come as it's bloody expensive and I'm not that generous! Not sure if that makes me pretentious or not...

PS Not sure Dove counts as soap as it's quarter moisturising cream - Google's pretty convinced it's the worst thing ever for skin! Probably not great for the plumbing either...

I worked for years in the plumbing industry. What were your parents doing with the soap? Were they allowing the slivers of old soap to go down the sink whole? If not, the water used to rinse their hands would/ should have diluted and washed away residue. Are we talking about a sink and pipes in situ for 50+ years and never cleaned out?

Washing machine experts will tell you to use powder instead of liquid and never those gel sachets, which clog the machine up. But millions of people use the gel sachets without problems.

I prefer bar soap too. I did it as an experiment, because I got sick of replacing the soap bottles so often amd how much weight they added to my grocery bags and how much space they took up in the bags and on the shelves.

I have really dry skin on my hands and I don't have that with bar soap. I am never going back. I now also use bar soap in the shower and I also have a shampoo bar. It works well.

I'm not a fan of bar soap on hands especially shared bathrooms, but I love using it in the shower and don't bother with shower gel anymore. I feel so much cleaner using bar soap.

I have never been keen on bar soap, especially in other people's houses. And there was some comedian (think it might have been Micky Flanagan) talking about that one bar being used by all and sundry, and on granddad's arse!

I don't have enough guests to have separate soaps, surely most people's guests are their family anyway, my mum, would have thought it strange to have a different soap when she visited if I used bar soap

No, soap as in soap. We are the victims of collosal sums of money being spent on super clever marketing to think that we need their products to stay clean and smell fresh. It's absolute ballony, if you aren't selecting for the most aggressive, stickiest bacteria by using a bactericide on your skin every day you really don't smell. Water and a scrub is perfect, your skin is more hydrated and your bank balance is better. There are allot of resources out there about this, they just don't have the funding of gaxosmith. I get that allot of people don't believe it because they have spent there whole lives using soap. I'd just say try it and see how you feel.

I understand why visually/psychologically people might think bar soap is ‘germy’ or ‘grimy’ but, by dint of its very nature, surely it can’t be?!? Nothing is going to live for very long on a bar of soap! A PP upthread even said she cultured one at school and nothing grew

I am a self confessed pretentious liquid soap user (Aesop in the bathroom for when guests visit 😂) but I have recently found myself going back to bars as they just get you cleaner and last SO much longer. I also have a lovely salicylic scrub bar for the shower which has transformed my problematic bacne issues

I’ve never thought to provide liquid soap for guests. Is this a thing?

Another bar soap convert here. I never liked how bars went soggy but saw the magnet holders on sale in a beautiful soap shop and thought it was worth a go. Ended up buying a cheap version from ebay and never looked back! No more soggy soap. I do still have liquid soap for guests however.

We have silicone soap mats and the soap is never soggy. Saves plastic and cost.

I use the moisturising bar (soap) from tropic and I find it makes my skin much nicer. I just leave it on the basin and take it in the shower with me when I go in, otherwise it just washes away when my dh uses the shower 🙄

Have just treated myself to a l’occtaine one on holiday though so looking forward to using this.

I think I will get one of the soap dishes up thread to drain it off though because I must admit the soggy soap does put me off using it.

Havent been able to convince the rest of the family on to soap though, they’re all still on shower gel.

I have magnetic soap holders and soap at all three sinks. You can get them on eBay and Alibaba. I have seven in total for different soaps (one is a hair soap bar holder in the shower).

We have both. The liquid stuff shreds my hands. DS2 (with LD) finds it much easier. To use, though.

I suspect that is scientifically inaccurate due to the action of the said soap on the bacteria. It effectively cracks it open. Doubt any survive.

You're more likely to find a random pube on bar soap.

Just regularly run hot water tap with soda crystals,all sorted .

FFS your skin doesn’t need to be “squeaky clean”, it has a natural protective barrier protecting you from various environmental aggressors including bacteria and scrubbing away at it just makes you more vulnerable to damage.

https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/skin-barrier-what-to-know

I went back to using bar soap because it’s better for the environment. Glad I did because I much prefer it.