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.

Water might wash sweat off but you need to wash your bum with soap
It also doesn't wash any body odour smell off

A) it does (with a bit of a scrub)
B) What is body odour? It's a bacteria producong smelly metabolites that's outcompeting all others that don't. Whe you use soap you kill the beneficial non smelly bacteria and select for the most vile ones. You smell LESS when you don't use soap. It's mind blowing.

Poo is fatty. It doesn't wash away with water
Would you get shit on your hand and wash it off with just water?

Dude, water washes sweat off. It's just salt, salt desolves in water.

Sweat stinks because of bacteria. You can't wash bacteria off with plain lukewarm water.

Or do you not use soap on your armpits because it apparently dissolves? What about after going to the toilet, germs still dissolve?

My skin is really dry and I haven't found a bar soap that doesn't dry it even further. I have to use that awful Dove stuff which is slimy and smells like air freshener 🤢

If anyone can recommend a moisturising bar soap I'd be grateful.

I use aqueous cream to wash my bum and vulva. Never soap or shower gel.

lool, people who habitually don’t wash with soap absolutely do smell sweaty. I think when you stop you probably just get used to the smell and have nose blindness.

I have not used soap on my pits for 10 years, I use deodorant but no smell. I did used to get bad BO. I use those charcoal gloves things and give myself a scrub in the shower. I don't know what to say, I don't use soap, I do not smell.

Plant - are you feeling OO this morning? You are indicating that YOU know something no one else does and we are nuts to use either a 50p bar of soap or a £30 Aesop hand wash. When Covid was rife I didnt hear any of the scientists saying just use water! No need for soap.

Although would say that some sweatiness smells worse than others!

At the start I used soap on my butt yeah but now no. Water contains loads of metallic ions that helps with oil breakdown, enough for poop on skin anyway. Why do bidets exist if water can't wash poop off skin?

I'll stick with soap thanks. I'm not happy to just rinse shit off and call it clean without something to actually remove it

And do those fancy Japanese toilets soap up your bum before hosing you down?

I found that once I'd been using it for a week, bar soap dried my skin out less than shower gel. It seems to keep my skin in more of a natural balance - neither dried out nor a bit greasy/slimy.

I've always preferred bar soap. It doesn't have to be the fancy stuff, though I like those as well. I feel cleaner after using a bar of soap, rather than shower gel.

Have you been to port sunlight? For the early manufactures of soap, public health was also a concern. Soap was used to wash clothes. However Lord Leverhulme created the first influencers, he made his soap aspirational via the paintings he had commissioned. But he also built an amazing place to live. Looking at it, it must have been a dream come true to thise who got out of the Liverpool slums. He also voluntarily gave pensions and pushed OAPs for all through parliament.

People who think they dont smell and just use water really do smell. Its just no one has told them. Its rather like people who dont iron convincing themselves their clothes look the same as those that have been ironed.

Lots of people know this

https://www.healthline.com/health/beauty-skin-care/is-soap-bad-for-skin#Conventional-soaps-can-damage-your-skin

Plant - do you use detergent for your clothes?

I just swapped out all my shower bottles for bars. Solid shampoo, a lovely rose and geranium body soap, a tea tree face bar and a rose geranium solid conditioner. All natural, no chemicals and smell amazing.

Oh for sure. Clothes are not covered in natural oils so stains etc get right in and you have to use soap to get rid of them. Our skin is amazing, you really really don't need petrochems so look after it.

• "looks pretty in a soap dish"

Oh no. You have to keep washing those things. They're difficult to keep clean and looking good.

• "less waste of product. I feel you use so much more than needed with liquid soaps and bar soap lasts an age"

That's why you use one of those netty things with your shower gel.

Bar soap tends to dry out the skin and shower gel is much easier for washing the whole body. Also, you never know what the last person in the shower did with the soap.

" it creates a problem (dry skin) you need to fix by spending (moisturizer)."

Soap is drying, yes, but so is just water to some extent so some of us will need body lotion/moisturiser in any case.

Using hand wash gives me the ick. Far more risk of nasties.

It depends on the soap. I've found a 30p value bar from asda that smells and feels lovely, and lasts for ages. I've had some supposedly luxury, expensive ones that were meh. Current bar is Nasti Dente pomegranate and its lasted all the way from Christmas when I was given it.
My skin prefers bar soap and immediately feels tight and itchy with shower gel, and we have soft water here.