Bar soap is superior to liquid soap

[Twistybranch]

• feel you have it in your for hands longer and have to scrub longer to get the squeaky feeling off the skin- thus feels cleaner
• less waste of packaging
• less waste of product. I feel you use so much more than needed with liquid soaps and bar soap lasts an age
• much much cheaper than liquid soap (standard bar soap vs standard liquid soap, not the fancy stuff)
• looks pretty in a soap dish
• can get really beautiful smelling and looking handmade bars
• hands feel softer

I do keep liquid soap in the bathroom too (for guests to use) but I never see bars in peoples bathrooms anymore.

YANBU

Liquid soap is generally overrated but I do have some in the kitchen

I have both (matching soap dish and dispenser) but I prefer the bar, but guests may prefer liquid.

Agree, I love big bars of soap. Liquid soap always feels slimy to me

I used to love the Camay ads when I was a kid. Do they still make Camay?

https://retrotvads.com/1980-camay-soap/

Also you used to be able to get magnetic soap holders to fit to your bathroom wall, happy days.

I always roll my eyes when I go into a downstairs loo and see a bottle of Aesop, so pretentious and overpriced.

Yeesh… not sure if I can handle this type of controversy 😁

I feel like soap has its uses…. I’m not a fan of being at someone’s house and only having a cracked bar of dirty soap as my only handwashing option, But likewise I hate using an unknown liquid soap that has been watered down in a container with the label cracked and peeling off (shudder).

But all things considered between those two options, I’d go for the watered down liquid.

Please don’t get me started on the fancy decorative soap that you’re never real sure if you are supposed to use.

I read somewhere that bar soap lasts five times longer ( liquid soap contains lots of water) and also bar soap is packaged in paper, not plastic bottles.

hands never feel properly clean with bars

you also get those grimy seams of bacteria

Once at school we were learning how to inoculate those jelly plates and grow cultures to look at down a microscope at. The teacher told us to take swab samples from around the lab and surroundings. I decided to see if the grime-filled cracks on the soap in the loos were as gross as they looked, and you'll be pleased to know that absolutely nothing grew from those samples 😅

I use bar soap in preference to the squirty stuff, but it's more likely to contribute to buildup and clogs.

Bar soap definitely gets you cleaner. Pure olive oil or glycerine soap are the best. My soap never looks dirty, gets cracked or has grimy seams of bacteria! It's just a smooth clean bar. What are some of you doing with it for it to get in that state?

Bar soap caused serious slimy clogs in my parents' sink waste pipes. Plumber advised not to use it.

I find this, if I use bar soap my skin feels like it had an almost slimy film on it.

Plus I think it makes glass showers messier

I only use bars of soap in showers, I never feel clean with shower gel and feel it’s just making you smell nice rather than clean.

Using someone else's bar of soap gives me the ick. Ugh.

I love bar soap. I shower with the l'occitane olive oil Clary sage soap (keep it in a little tin) and it doesn't dry out my skin and smells lovely and clean.

The thought of sharing my soap - letting someone else use mine or using soap in someone's house makes me feel ill though.

I would prefer guests to use liquid I don't want their germs all over my soap.

I gave up on liquid soap years ago. Bar soap is so much nicer. I use magnetic soap holder s which are brilliant. (no manky soapbar in my house).

Bar soap is horrible, looks ok to begin with but leaves a slimy mess in the soap dish and looks messy and loses shape as you use it up. You constantly have to rinse the soap dish and soap after use. No way would I go back to it. Just extra cleaning effort compared to liquids.

Guests can use what you use when they are guests in your house. If they don't like your soap that's not your problem.

I switched to bar soap and never even think about other people using it.
It's soap, not my toothbrush.

If you visited me, you would probably assume we just use liquid soap.
And in places where visitors might wash their hands, we have liquid soap
Enter my bathroom, and there is bar soap at the sink, and bar soap in the shower. So, soap that doesn't get shared is bar soap.
Where it's a free for all, liquid, as they feel less personal.

I use a soap bag.

Ive recently started using bar soap more, in place of handwash and before showergel/body wash (so using much less bodywash). Soap makes me feel cleaner. I love the pale green Pears soap.

Soap is a scam. A shower with water everyday has always been fine but no-one was making money out of that. It's a hangover from when we didn't have such easy access to water and corporations love it because it creates a problem (dry skin) you need to fix by spending (moisturizer). It completely disrupts your skins balance making it MORE prone to smells than without. The amount of co2 and plastic to just complicate people's lives and make shareholders rich is horrific really. This is probably controversial to many but it's completely true. Water is enough to keep you clean. (Though I still use soap on my hands).