To find this bizarre? Friend and soap

Why was there no dispenser next to the sink?

Kidding.

This thread is hilarious!

op I think I’m one of the few that wouldn’t have even asked you and just used whatever. I’ve been to friends’ houses before and used whatever I can find - shampoo, shower gel. It’s all soap!

I personally don’t feel like it does tho.

Why are you so confused by the idea that sometimes people aren't completely organised and therefore don't always have supplies in? Sometimes things get overlooked. It's hardly an unusual situation.

Yes! It's cheaper, better for the environment and feels much cleaner than shower gel/liquid "soap" (most of which aren't actually soap at all).
I do have a smol liquid dispenser in the kitchen though.

So? I never said that she wasn't doing that, I was simply pointing something out to another user. Why are you trying to argue with me?

I never said it was a moral failing - just that it's one of those things that most people would really not want to run out of; if the alternative is that you have to grapple around and hold and open a shower gel bottle with poo-germy fingers.

They cost a pound or less, don't take up much room in your cupboard and keep for months and months - unless you really are on your uppers, why wouldn't you always keep one or two in spare?

Exactly, she is clearly incapable of listening to or even considering others opinions as it is damaging to her ego when she thought she was so right

I think she is just one of these people who always thinks she’s right even when she is wrong

It’s not immediately intuitive to people when you ask for soap and are pointed towards ‘some stuff in a bottle’ or ‘somewhere behind the screen.’.

Your friend would have been looking for a bar or soap or a Cussons hand wash, not your Radox!

Yes, dove bar does a very good job. I buy it to save on plastic packaging (environment).

But the reason she’s saying it over and over is those are the posts she’s focussed on, rather than taking on board the hundreds of others quite rightly pointing out that most people would not assume she meant for them to use her shower gel without explicitly stating so (even though yes it’s basically the same as soap blah blah).

I much prefer a bar of soap. Firstly there's no plastic waste, secondly I feel so much cleaner if I use soap.

I’m surprised that the friend didn’t just figure it out. OP ran out of soap and told friend there was some in another location. I mean, if this was me, I would initially look for a bottle of liquid soap, but it would take a couple of seconds to make the leap to shower gel. Small breakdown in communication leads to one person being extremely patronising to another for no good reason. Weird.

Oh and if I put shower gel in the liquid soap dispenser, guess what? It would be completely undetectable and would do the same job.

I love a bar of soap! I do a TK maxx raid every now and then and stock up on beautifully scented soaps which I love using.

I have liquid by the sink in the kitchen though becasue I don't really want a bar of soap knocking around the kitchen sink

Yes, for the 1000th time she had a dispenser of hand soap by the sink which had unexpectedly run out

Sorry just seen you do have a dispenser by the sink but it was empty.
In that case I would just say use the shower gel.

?!

Yes, lots of people still use bar soap. I can’t stand liquid soap and I hate the plastic waste. Use bar soap in the shower, too, no shower gel. When I make my friends play hunt the soap it’s very easily found, have to make do with Victorian parlour games instead.

do people still use 'bar soap'? Seems very victorian...

Do you have a dispenser by the sink too and it had run out?
I would also be confused about washing my hands with shower gel. And no soap by the sink

It is !

I mean, yeah I know that. I also replied saying that at the start of the thread.
My point here was to correct a poster who kept saying OP used shower gel as a rule, instead of when she runs out of hand soap. Which OP has repeated over and over again.

Yes and what most people have replied over and over again is that unless she specifically said “oh use the shower gel instead” it wouldn’t occur to them to use shower gel when they ask for soap and op says it’s by the bath even though most people will readily accept that they do the same job. It’s the communication that’s the issue, not the idea of using shower gel to wash your hands.

How the hell has this thread reached nearly 400 replies?! 🤷‍♀️

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?

Yes, because how do you shower without washing your hands too!🤔

Functionally, there is little or no difference between shower gel and liquid soap. But if I was washing my hands after using the loo, I would be a bit unsure about grabbing a bottle out of the shower. I know my hands aren't filthy, but there could be urine or traces of faeces on my hands, and I wouldn't want to leave that on someone's shower gel, to end up on their hands.

When I was a theatre nurse, it was drummed into us that we should touch the bottles with the handwash solution in them as little as possible - we had elbow operated dispensers at the sinks where we scrubbed up for surgery - so maybe I am overcautious in normal, day to day situations, because of years of training on handwashing practices.

I am probably hugely overthinking this, @SplodgePocket - but it's how I'd use the product, not the product itself that I'd worry about.

I do it all the time but I do decant it into a dispensed by the sinks