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 use bar soap, but I cut them up into smaller pieces and use them for every shower.

YANBU
Often cheaper too
and stops filling up the little bathroom bin with plastic crap

You need a soap dish though

30 years ago no one used liquid soap in the home, there’s nothing wrong with it or grim about it at all. And the impact on the environment of bar soap is far lower.

This.

I really like the dettol bar soap for under arms. Gets rid of any sweat smell and I also get abscesses and it seems to help those a lot
Using a pink lemonade imperial leather one for hand wash that smells amazing! (£1 in Superdrug)

@ProudMarys

I'm imagining that now .... that's seriously grim 😂😂😂

I really wish we could bring back some of the every day bar soaps that everyone used to use. Brands like the original bright green palmolive, Fairy toilet soap, Lux, Cussons Pearl, Shield. There was an amazingly lemony one I remember being particularly fond of. Boots used to do lots of different bar soaps in packs of 4. There's so little choice in the supermarkets now - Dove seems to have a near monopoly.

We're officially converted from today.

The bar soap was first used in a ceremonial washing after toilet use this morning by yours truly.

@Chicchicchicchiclana was the lemony one Cidal soap? We used to have that and I can still get all the ones you listed in our local independent pharmacy.

When I was a 70s child, I used to love the four-bar pack that boots did with brown bits of oatmeal (or similar) in it. I thought it was v sophisticated.

Is that Dove, OP? It leaves a film of moisturiser on the skin so if it’s for getting rid of deodorant under arms then it’s no good.

No it's a local brand, not Dove.
I already learnt here that Dove is not really soap!

@Chicchicchicchiclana - was the yoke one bright yellow? That was Zest. All the other brands you’ve mentioned are still available in the “Well” chemist in my village, presumable in other places too.

*yellow not yoke

i hate liquid soap. i'm pretty sure the soap part is the same so it's fine. we are all ok anyway!

Ha I remember the boots oatmeal soap...
Buy the height of sophistication was lemon Bronnly. ...

Cidal is a lovely soap with some antiseptic qualities. ...

Recently I found some hemp 'soap on a roap' from the body shop. So retro! And the perfect answer to the soggy soap issue.

I have been using baby bath or baby wash for hand soap and it has worked well. Very mild! But I see no issue with using bar soap.

Keep the plastic dispenser and refill it with any liquid washing stuff you have available - shower gel or whatever.

Bar soap all the way, better for the enviroment, a million percent. So much choice now too.
If slimy soap is a worry, then buy a breathable soap dish for bar soap, and all your slimy worries will be solved.

@Destroyedpeople - yes - Bronnley Lemons, so pretty!

Does anyone remember Avon Soap-On-a-Rope, in all manner of shapes, colours and smells? I loved them as a child.

Sorry HoneyBee - it looked very similar. I converted about a year ago and as most new converts feel quite preachy about it.

@DrinkFeckArseGirls

Yes it's like we have joined a cult 😂😂😂

On a serious note, I think I should perhaps open a topic on the Style and Beauty forum, for 'bar soap converts'!

I bought this for my Soap but it's too big for most sinks and only fits the utility

When OH came to live with me he bought Coal Tar Soap with him that he puts in his undies drawer

Pretty soap scale!
I love those old fashioned porcelain ones with flowers on them as well. Probably you can still find them in an Evelyn & Crabtree shop or a National Trust gift shop.

( Sorry if anyone has already mentioned these) but my parents have always had those magnetic soap holders, you know the ones that stick to the wall and you push the magnet into the soap bar?!!
Probably quite retro but they work 😄

You just need the Joseph soap dish - drains and comes apart to clean - super easy.