Bar soap is superior to liquid soap

i like bar soap but it blocks my plug hole, scums up the sink and goes mushy. So all needs more cleaning

I make our own bar soap and it's lovely - makes amazing lather and has a subtle honey scent (from honey and beeswax). It takes half an hour to make enough to last 6 months and it's very satisfying to make it and watch oils and lye transform into something solid. And it's gentle on the skin because it retains the glycerine which gets removed from most commercial bar soap. I'd never thought about visitors preferring liquid soap but I use dishes with racks and it doesn't crack so I hope they've not had a problem with it!

It's odd that there are threads about this so often.

Yanbu. I switched to nabuksi soap and hamam glove (glove 2x a week). Amazing, no irritation, much cleaner imho

I agree. I swapped back to bar soap a few years ago and wouldn’t change again. But it’s increasingly hard to find in shops.

Bar soap all the way. Even for showering. Shower gel is horrid for my skin.

I only use bar soap in my shower but have liquid soap elsewhere in the house because, living on my own, I find bar soap cracks through lack of use in the other sink. I remember when liquid soap first became a thing - we had it at work alongside the bar soap (Wrights Coal Tar!!). One day I washed my hands in liquid soap then straight afterwards in bar soap and the muck that came off my hands!! The liquid stuff hadn't cleaned them at all!

I've gone back to using Shield bar soap in the shower as perimenopause has turned me back into a stinky teen done something weird to my BO, and the antibacterial ingredient is the only thing to make me feel properly clean.

We have hand wash and soap at the sink in this household. I also have a bar of soap by the kitchen sink. I use it on the most greasy pans as it works really well. Again I use laundry soap bars on stains before going in the wash. My Great Aunt never had any detergents in her house only pure soaps. She was a botanist and said they were more harmful to plants. A spray of slightly soapy water sprayed on greenfly is a great way to get better roses. But you couldn’t use washing up liquid.

Love bar soap in my bathroom where it doesn’t get shared with anyone else. Mine doesn’t go slimy, mushy or cracked, and no problems with the pipes either.

Had a bottle of shower gel in a beauty box recently and it did smell lovely but I really noticed that slimy/filmy feeling. I really don’t see how ‘just water’ would get you properly clean.

Yorkshire Soap Company glycerine soaps don’t crack, don’t dry out your skin and the scent lasts until the last sliver. They are my bath time treat.

Soap in the shower leaves a film, liquid body wash doesn’t, the shower is much easier to clean if you wash using body wash. Dr Bronner is pricey but lasts ages.

I used to get fed up of bar soap going soggy in the soap dish. Then we found one at B and M that curls over at tge front so all water drains from the soap and back into the wash basin. No more soggy soap.

Did you mean liquid soap is a scam? Otherwise, this is such a weird take - people have been making and using soap for thousands of years, it's hardly a capitalist conspiracy!

I am not sure I will agree with pp that just pure water is going to work for everyone. At least on pits anyway.

I am a product of boarding school back in the day. Not a lot fazes me because of this. One of these is bar soap, as in those times I don't think liquid soap was even a thing.

We had communal showers which included in there were bars of soap. The girls were fortunate enough to be supplied Lux, but the boys were subjected to red Lifebuoy. We had a new house matron and she didn't feel that the system of leaving the Lux on the soap dish was a good idea, as they got a bit soggy before too long. Or getting pinched (why, no I don't know) One evening we go for shower time, and there are the bars of Lux handing from the tap, in an old stocking 😂 They were not allowed to be removed from the tap, as apparently the stocking was stretchy enough to wash your whole body without undoing it or taking the soap out.

So that was just how it was after that. When I went home it was really nice to use a bar of soap without having it boing back out of your hands.

How do you justify paying about £30 for a bottle of kitchen hand wash?

I am a bar soap devotee through and through. I also use bar shampoo, bar conditioner, and bar washing up liquid!

I love them. They’re more effective, they don’t have that slimy feeling, they’re cheaper, they last longer, they smell better and I must have saved kilos of plastic packaging from going in to landfill.

Hand soap is fine if its just you using it. However it is not good to share as it's a breeding ground for germs (that's why only liquid in hospitals).

I love bars of soap and we use them in the shower/bathroom, but use liquid hand wash in the downstairs loo for visitors. When I was pregnant I found the smell of all shower gel absolutely overpowering and awful, which I put down to the chemicals and artificial perfumes in it. I generally find bar soap kinder to the skin and I like the fact it’s plastic free. I often indulge myself with ‘luxury’ soaps, with essential oils, which smell and feel lovely and last for ages longer than shower gel. Not a huge expense but something that makes me happy 😊

And shower gel! Liquid soap is a massive marketing con. The marketers have convinced everyone that it's easier and more hygienic and it's definitely not. It's more expensive, and all that single use plastic packaging...

I went back to using solid bars of soap about 7 years ago and remember wondering why on earth I'd ever moved away from using them in the first place.

I agree with all your points op but I've had to give up on bars of soap as they always end up with cracks that look minging!