Bathroom etiquette for visitors - use your host's shampoo but not their cream?

[Flatbread]

Picking up from another thread and a point Stella raised.

When you are visiting, what do you use?

I use their toothpaste
The nicest shampoo and conditioner
Definitely the face wash, might go half and half on my face if they have two kinds
Bubble bath and bath oils if bathing
And finally a lather of their face cream and body cream. And vary by day, depending on how many they have.

Am I the worsest house guest

I woldnt use their skincare products for the face, because a) they are so expensive and b) they might not suit my skin type. I always bring my own.

I don't use any of my hosts toiletries, unless I have forgotten mine and then I would ask. freeloader

I don't plan to use any of my host's products.
I take everything I'll need of my own.

If I'm in a guest bathroom with items clearly put out for guests, I might use some shampoo, conditioner, shower gel etc, but I can't imagine using cream.

In our guest bathroom I put out shower gel, shampoo and conditioner.
I also have a few bottles of cream etc from hotels that guests are free to use, but nobody ever does.

Wow I wouldn't dream of using any of that. I ALWAYS take my own. Would ask to use shampoo /conditioner & toothpaste if forgot mine but that's it

I wouldn't use all that. Depends who it is and what their house is like - a lot of my friends have guest bathrooms (not stealth boasting, I promise) and there isn't v. much in there usually apart from the bare essentials - usually soap/shower gel & shampoo (often random freebies from hotels).

My own guest bathroom is the same. Mine doesn't even have particularly great stuff in it as I put all the unwanted gift toiletries in it so they can often be a bit 'odd'. I will give friends other stuff if they need it eg. nail varnish remover or eye make up remover.

If I know I'll be using a shared family bathroom I often borrow toothpaste - as who begrudges a guest two days worth of toothpaste, and almost always use their shower gel. With the hand luggage restrictions on planes it can be tricky to get all that stuff into a single ziplock bag!

I always use my own shampoo/ conditioner/ skin care.

Showergel and toothpaste are fair game. I think shampoo and conditioner are fine too although I always take my own because I have a delicate scalp that reacts badly to most brands. We leave out these in our guest bathroom for anyone to use.

I would hate any guests to be dipping their fingers into pots of moisturisers though. Eugh.

If you come to my house you can use anything you like that you can find in the bathroom. (Apart from the medicated dog shampoo which is more expensive than any human stuff I've come across) Everything that I use which may be more expensive than stores-own-family-variety is locked away because I have a teenage daughter :o

It depends on who you're staying with I guess.

When I stay at my sister's I help myself to anything I like and she does the same at mine.

Anywhere else I would use my own.

does anyone use their soap?

Because soap is soap. It's self-cleaning!

Cue Joey ...

I stayed with friends for two months and they got upset I wasn't using the stuff they'd left out for me. Nor could they believe I'd taken up room in my bag with things like shampoo, shower gel etc. (Tbf I'd only taken small bottles as I knew I could buy more there, but also knew I'd want a shower after a ten hour flight.)

I wouldn't have dreamt of using their stuff tho', until they told me that's what it was there for. Even then I felt guilty for taking one of the shower puffs, but mine fell apart. They had bought so much, a wide range of goodies and I barely touched what was there. I also had 12 towels (I think, huuuuuuuuge number anyway). They were great to stay with!

I take all my own stuff, even my own towel!

And soap is gross. I only use liquid soap/showel gels.

BIL takes his own Lynx and sprays a whole can in each pit. I then start wheezing as though I'd been inhaling mr muscle oven cleaner, and politely blame it on the dog...

I would never think to take my own toothpaste.

Everything else I would take my own, but I might have a go at their depending on hygiene/suitability/how well I know them/whether it's nicer than mine. :o

I take my own everything - including towel if I'm staying with scummy studenty type friends, excluding towel if with relatives. If I forget something I'd have no problem asking to borrow, but it would never occur to me not to ask.

Ooh, thank you for starting this thread, I shouldn't have hijacked the other thread with my random thoughts.

I would use, without guilt or asking, assuming nobody cared, shower gel and toothpaste, and hand lotion if they had it by the sink with the soap - some people do.

I would use, without asking as it wouldn't occur to me until I was actually in the shower, but feel slightly guilty for doing so, shampoo and conditioner, feeling more guilty the more expensive and/or specialist it looked.

I would take my own facewash but if I forgot it I would use theirs, but not if it was in a cupboard or if it looked really expensive.

Knowing I was very wrong for doing so, I would, or possibly have, steal a spritz of perfume, and the same with body lotion if it was in a pump dispenser, but not face moisturiser or anything in a tub.

That is the gospel according to Stella.

I would use shampoo/shower gel but not lotions or creams.

Crying with laughter at the guest bathrooms.

I'd also use toothpaste, hand soap and hand cream if out 'for general consumption' by the sink, shower gel/bubble bath apart from any that I knew or suspected were expensive or special. Wouldn't use hair products or facial skincare stuff. But I'd ask, if I'd forgotten something, if I could borrow theirs.

Apart from roll-on deodorant, I think.

I would use shower gel, shampoo and conditioner ant toothpaste. Would never dream of using creams or lotions though.

My guest room has its own bathroom and when we have visitors, in particular Dad and Stepmum, or Mum and her DH (not at the same time, I hasten to add)
I supply shampoo & conditioner, soap, towels, shower gel, shaving foam, toothpaste, body cream, hair mousse and hairspray.

They all have to fly long haul to see me so supplying these items means it's less for them to pack and they can bring random crap that I can't get here out for me instead
Whatever's left after they've gone gets used by us.

I woult maybe use shampoo or shower gel i wouldnt make myself at home in a friends bathroom , I take my own stuff use towels though ,

if staying at my sisters or mums I'd not have second thoughts about using their stuff and would expect them to feel the same. I wouldn't at my brothers as not sure what my SIL would think.

The most embarrassing thing is being caught short and having to hunt out your hostesses tampons which has thankfully only happened to me twice in my lifetime

I recently stayed with a friend well last year and she had lotions and potions in fancy pots i do admit to having a bit if a nosey and a sniff , didnt use any though just the pots were so pretty I dont do lotions as i buy them dont like them and the sit on a shelf for years , soandsomummy i have been caught out like that once and i had to go on a hunt