Page 16 | To find this bizarre? Friend and soap

TropicofCapricorn · 15/04/2025 21:44

howaboutchocolate · 15/04/2025 21:44

I use a hand wash that's got soap and cleansing things in it because my hands get dirtier than the rest of my body does multiple times a day?

My shower gel is soap free and much gentler, it doesn't really foam and is more moisturising.

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They're both still soap. Because otherwise are you telling us you don't actually wash your body...just moisturise it?

howaboutchocolate · 15/04/2025 21:44

SplodgePocket · 15/04/2025 19:03

Well, liquid soap. But it’s pretty much the same thing.

Can I ask those of you saying you’d never wash your hands with shower gel why it’s different to using it on the rest of your body?

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I use a hand wash that's got soap and cleansing things in it because my hands get dirtier than the rest of my body does multiple times a day?

My shower gel is soap free and much gentler, it doesn't really foam and is more moisturising.

TropicofCapricorn · 15/04/2025 21:41

EmmaWoodhouseOfHighbury · 15/04/2025 21:39

Of course it's the same...I sometimes buy shower gel to refill a liquid soap bottle. What do people think is different about it? Do they have different skin on their hands to the rest of their body?

They've fallen for the marketing.

TropicofCapricorn · 15/04/2025 21:41

Iwantacupofteawith2sugars · 15/04/2025 21:32

Personally I wouldn’t feel like my hands would be clean after washing with shower gel.
I believe that soap has more antibacterial properties, shower gel doesn’t really even clean you properly it’s just good for smelling ‘nice,’ And yes I wash my whole body with soap and go over with shower gel for the scent benefits.

And so...you get out of the shower after having washed your entire body in one sofa, and then wash your hands with another soap presumably? As the soap that just washed your entire body, wasn't somehow able to clean your hands...?

Despite the hand soaps being EXACTLY THE SAME as the shower gel,. except with slightly different perfumes or humectants?

Catwoman8 · 15/04/2025 21:40

Pippinsdiary · 15/04/2025 20:35

Oh my god. She’s not asking her to look through her toiletries, she directed her to it… on the side of her bath. People on here are getting battier by the day

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She directed her to 'soap' though ,she didn't say there was no soap left and the shower gel was what she meant....so if I was the friend here I'd be looking for a hand wash or bar of soap, I would not have thought she meant shower gel!

EmmaWoodhouseOfHighbury · 15/04/2025 21:39

Of course it's the same...I sometimes buy shower gel to refill a liquid soap bottle. What do people think is different about it? Do they have different skin on their hands to the rest of their body?

TropicofCapricorn · 15/04/2025 21:39

autisticbookworm · 15/04/2025 21:36

I do use shower gel or washing up liquid if I run out but I know the difference, if at some one else’s house if they told me there was more soap on the bath I’d be looking for soap not shower gel.

Yes, they have a different consistency. But they clean just the same...

latetothefisting · 15/04/2025 21:38

DervlaKeogh · 15/04/2025 21:29

I think most people accept you can use shower gel
as soap. Your friend was confused because you said there was soap. So whilst shower gel can be used as soap you should have said “the dispenser needs refilling so can you use the shower gel” or similar.

If your friend had then said “FFS how can I clean my hands with shower gel” then you wouldn’t be unreasonable to think she reacted strangely.

exactly this. although the odd few people have derailed by insisting they would never and could never use shower gel, most people would be fine with it if it was explained it was an alternative to the hand soap they were told to look for, rather than pretending it's the exact same thing.

Like if someone said 'Can we have eggs for breakfast,' that covers everything, but if they said 'Ooh great, I love fried eggs,' while tucking into boiled eggs with soldiers you'd be a bit confused.

TropicofCapricorn · 15/04/2025 21:38

Iwantacupofteawith2sugars · 15/04/2025 21:32

Personally I wouldn’t feel like my hands would be clean after washing with shower gel.
I believe that soap has more antibacterial properties, shower gel doesn’t really even clean you properly it’s just good for smelling ‘nice,’ And yes I wash my whole body with soap and go over with shower gel for the scent benefits.

Why wouldn't it clean your hands, but can clean your arms, or leg or feet? What's so different about your hands that the soap that cleans your forearm, can't somehow clean your fingers?

autisticbookworm · 15/04/2025 21:36

I do use shower gel or washing up liquid if I run out but I know the difference, if at some one else’s house if they told me there was more soap on the bath I’d be looking for soap not shower gel.

Lookuptotheskies · 15/04/2025 21:35

This takes me back to Lock Down when the hand wash section was empty in all the shops but the shower gel, body wash, shampoo, bubble bath, etc was still all adequately stocked. 🤦🙄 Soap is soap is soap. Especially if it's just for washing your hands with!

Teanbiscuits33 · 15/04/2025 21:34

Your friend isn’t weird, OP. Yes, hand wash and shower gel are the same thing, and I have used shower gel in the past to wash my hands but when I think of soap to wash my hands I generally think of either a bar of soap or a bottle of carex handwash or similar. If someone says, ‘’The soap is on the side of the bath’’ my brain would look for bar soap. If you mean shower gel, say that.

Iwantacupofteawith2sugars · 15/04/2025 21:32

Personally I wouldn’t feel like my hands would be clean after washing with shower gel.
I believe that soap has more antibacterial properties, shower gel doesn’t really even clean you properly it’s just good for smelling ‘nice,’ And yes I wash my whole body with soap and go over with shower gel for the scent benefits.

Hastentoadd · 15/04/2025 21:31

SplodgePocket · 15/04/2025 18:56

A friend came around earlier as I had a half day. Before she left, she said she was just popping to the loo. I then heard her call a minute later, “Splodge? There’s no soap”.

I have a dispenser, so I assumed it had run out and called back that there was some on the side of the bath. There was a pause and she called back, “No, not here”. I knew it was there so replied, “Just against the wall, behind the shower screen”. Again, a pause before a bewildered “No…”

I was completely confused now, as I knew very well it was there. I went through to the hall and she was standing in the doorway looking baffled. I went in, looked behind the screen and sure enough, there it was. I handed it to her and said, “Here, see?”

She burst out laughing and said, “Ohhhhh!! It’s shower gel!!” I was a bit confused and replied, “Well yes; soap, shower gel… whatever”. She was smiling at me a bit like I was a child who’d made a comical mistake. She said, “You said soap. This is shower gel. Show-er gel.” With the last bit really slowly, like she wasn’t sure English was my first language.

I was really taken aback. Who is this bizarrely literal? Surely it’s all pretty much the same thing? I thought maybe she was looking for a bar of soap and this was what had confused her somehow, but surely when you couldn’t see it you’d think “it must be the stuff in the bottle”? And even if you didn’t, wouldn’t you just have used the shower gel anyway?

I’ve never noticed her take things so literally before. Is it me or is this just really odd?!

If someone said there was soap, I would be looking for an actual bar of soap / soap dispenser,
I wouldn’t be looking at the shower gel as an option as I had been told there was soap, If I was told there was no soap then I would have had no problem using the shower gel

DervlaKeogh · 15/04/2025 21:29

I think most people accept you can use shower gel
as soap. Your friend was confused because you said there was soap. So whilst shower gel can be used as soap you should have said “the dispenser needs refilling so can you use the shower gel” or similar.

If your friend had then said “FFS how can I clean my hands with shower gel” then you wouldn’t be unreasonable to think she reacted strangely.

TropicofCapricorn · 15/04/2025 21:26

miraxxx · 15/04/2025 20:51

This is disingenuous and quite annoying. Many shower gels have moisturisers and emollients especially for people with sensitive skin issues. They may be more scented. They can be much more expensive. If it is all soap, will you wash a new born with hand soap? I have scalp issues and can never just use any old shampoo - even it is all just 'soap'.

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Now come on....hand soaps have moisturisers and the like too...

It is all just soap. The marketing has worked on you!

I'll bet if we looked at the ingredients is Supermarket A Hand Soap and Supermarket A Shower gel the ingredients would be similar...

In fact I checked... Compared Tesco essentials shower gels and hand soap. And they practically the same. With slightly different humectants etc..

It's all just soap!

chaosmaker · 15/04/2025 21:24

Bar soap is so much better, I bought some from Chateau de Savon. Not the cheapest but lasts for ages and they always have deals on. I also wouldn't think to wash my hands with someone's shower gel but have on occasion had to use washing up liquid.... yuck.

FarmGirl78 · 15/04/2025 21:24

Nah, you're bizarre. She isn't.

recipientofraspberries · 15/04/2025 21:23

It's because you told her there was soap by the bath.

It's nothing to do with whether it's acceptable to wash your hands with shower gel or not - it's that you said "there's soap by the bath", so she was looking for soap. You should have said "just use the shower gel by the bath".

Pushmepullyou · 15/04/2025 21:22

TropicofCapricorn · 15/04/2025 20:39

What do you think is different to shower gel and liquid hand soap?

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Well yes, I appreciate it is actually soap, but if I was looking for hand soap I wouldn’t necessarily look at a bottle of shower gel and think “oh yes, there’s the soap”

ThisFluentBiscuit · 15/04/2025 21:20

megacat · 15/04/2025 20:48

Good grief there are some brain dead people replying to this thread. The soap on the sink ran out, surely you’d have a look around for an alternative (shower gel is an alternative, it cleans your fucking skin, no?) before shouting out to your friend like a child?

I don't know though, some shower gel is expensive! I wouldn't use a Clarins shower gel to wash my hands, I'd call out for more soap!

ThisFluentBiscuit · 15/04/2025 21:17

Didimum · 15/04/2025 21:14

I think you were weird here, OP, not your friend. I recognise it’s all essentially the same stuff and I would wash my hands with shower gel in the absence of hand soap, but I would have said to someone (and would expect the same back) ‘looks like the dispenser is out, there is some shower gel behind the shower screen you can use instead’.

If you were out of hand soap and indicated there was some on the bath, I would have been looking for hand soap, not shower gel.

Yup!

ThisFluentBiscuit · 15/04/2025 21:16

CatamaranViper · 15/04/2025 18:59

I mean, while they probably are more or less the same, if I had asked someone were the soap was, I'd be looking for either soap or hand wash, not showergel. Wouldn't occur to me to just pick up a bottle of shower gel and use it in someone else's house unless they told me to.

Yup, same here. Of course you can wash your hands with shower gel, but if someone told me there was soap in there, that's what I'd be looking for! I'd assume you meant there was soap in addition to shower gel, so I'd have been looking for it and got similarly confused.

Didimum · 15/04/2025 21:14

I think you were weird here, OP, not your friend. I recognise it’s all essentially the same stuff and I would wash my hands with shower gel in the absence of hand soap, but I would have said to someone (and would expect the same back) ‘looks like the dispenser is out, there is some shower gel behind the shower screen you can use instead’.

If you were out of hand soap and indicated there was some on the bath, I would have been looking for hand soap, not shower gel.

megacat · 15/04/2025 21:07

miraxxx · 15/04/2025 20:51

This is disingenuous and quite annoying. Many shower gels have moisturisers and emollients especially for people with sensitive skin issues. They may be more scented. They can be much more expensive. If it is all soap, will you wash a new born with hand soap? I have scalp issues and can never just use any old shampoo - even it is all just 'soap'.

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Yes I would wash a newborn with hand soap.

Babies would have been washed with a bar of soap years ago. In the kitchen sink no less! Mind blowing.

This thread is ludicrous.