To use bar soap instead of liquid handsoap

[Honeybee85]

Liquid handsoap is sold out completely, at every shop here (we live outside the UK).
Bar soap is still widely available though for the same price as it was before (unfortunately that doesn't apply to liquid handsanitizer, this has become 3 times more expensive then it was before).

I still have enough handsoap left for about 2 weeks use, but I'm afraid there still won't be any available after we run out of our current supply. I was planning to buy bar soap to put by the sink in the toilet but DH thinks it's grim to use bar soap for washing hands after toilet use. He says we better buy shower gel and use that instead.
I'm thinking that won't do the cleansing job as good as bar soap.

AIBU to think it's fine to use bar soap in the toilet?

YABU : it's grim, use showergel

YANBU : don't worry, it's fine to use bar soap

I’ve got Wright’s cold tar soap in the downstairs bathroom during this pandemic - don’t know why but I find it reassuring.

Bar soap can block your sink unless your pipes are pretty vertical. But you can keep on top of it with periodic pouring of boiling water down the sink.

My mum always kept bar dial in the airing cupboard where the hot water tank was as she said it then lasted longer
Pears soap somehow reacts with my skin and makes me smell funny but I love the smell. Reminds me of childhood.

I always use bar soap. There's no justification for throwing so much plastic away for our children and grandchildren to deal with.

I like neal’s yard soaps - they last for ages. Before all this started they used to do deals 3 for £10.

I love bar soap and it’s all I use to wash my hands and in the shower
My favourite is shield it smells amazing
The pp who asked if anyone remembers camay, I used to absolutely love camay chic I bought one recently off eBay and it’s still lovely
I wish we had more bar soap varieties in the uk

I use anti bacterial liquid soap normally but I did see the other day that dettol make an antibacterial soap bar. Maybe this would be an ideal solution?!

We do use liquid soap in the kitchen as I don't want soap dish cluttering up the worktop. But bar soap everywhere else.

We switched to bars of soap a while back for environmental reasons. During the start of lockdown when hand wash couldn’t be bought I got 3 bars of imperial leather in rye chemist for £1. It reminds me of my dad, as my parents always had this in our house growing up. And in our utility room a block of green fairy soap you could use for all sorts.

I love pears original but my husband isn’t keen on the smell so we get the green pears instead.

I have used Dove bar soap for the past year because I wanted to reduce the use of plastic but also, at 52, my body chemistry is changing and I get body odour in my armpits like never before. Bar soap wipes it out completely.

You can buy 5litre containers of liquid hand wash and reuse the dispenser.

I agree with @Figmentofmyimagination, there is something very reassuringly about the antiseptic phenol smell of Wright’s. I also bought some at the start of the pandemic, but largely because it was all that was left. It smells of my grandfather! (He died in 1990, but it’s a very evocative smell).

Funnily enough at the end of last year I switched to bar soap to save packaging, even though I prefer liquid/shower gel it's fine to use.

Another one who has always used bar soap. I'm not even sure when liquid soap even became the norm.

I kind of agree that in a public toilet I would expect to see soap from a dispenser and not a manky bit of bar soap with someone else's grime still on it but at home bar soap all the way.

I stopped using shower gel and liquid handwash in favour of bar soap a while back. Nesti Dante is my favourite.

Oh and I used to use Lush solid shampoo,but I've ditched Lush because of their various irritating practices. My new fave shampoo bars are Bain and Savon ones.

We transitioned to soap bars last year to reduce our plastic use. Does the same job at fraction of the price.

@shinynewapple2020

Exactly, that's why I posted here, for some reason I also wouldn't like the idea of using a bar soap in a public toilet. That's why I thought I should ask MN because just maybe there was a grain of truth in DH's reasoning .

We are bar-soapers all the way too. My friend’s husband made my kids a lovely handmade soap bar at the start of lockdown. It’s translucent and inside the soap is a small plastic dinosaur. They love it and it encourages them to wash their hands thoroughly. Also smells gorgeous.

Defeats the object slightly re: plastic consumption but it is only one bar in the whole house

Not just fine, it's better.

Why would a bar of soap be grim?...Unless you knew someone had been just washing there bits with it and it had pubic hair stuck all over it

I changed all the soap in the bathrooms and kitchen to bar soap recently and the whole household complained. I prefer the liquid stuff too but don't like the excess plastic. A compromise I've made is buying a shower organiser for everyone on Dragons Den (not at all connected with it!) so everyone has their own bar of soap.

The fact that DH thinks bar soap in the toilet is grim is in itself proof that standards of hygiene are constantly changing, I think.

Going from bar soap to hand wash is not a step up in hygiene. Surgery staff still use antimicrobial soap bars

Also the handwash industry has never been able to prove that ‘anti-bacterial’ handsoap works better than normal soap. It’s a big con.

A compromise I've made is buying a shower organiser for everyone on Dragons Den (not at all connected with it!) so everyone has their own bar of soap.

Why on earth have you bought everyone on Dragon’s Den their own shower organised? They’re all millionaires.