DH and I disagree about Soap 😳

[anotherdaytosmile]

DH has put a fresh bar of soap out today, his trusty Imperial Leather. He thinks it’s a classy soap based on his childhood perspective in the late 1970s. I think it’s one step up from carbolic. I want Jo Malone soap 😢

AIBU - imperial leather is pure luxury
AINBU - what next, waxy toilet paper?

YABBU! Bar soap is so dated and messy. Choose a nice liquid soap…I love shopping in TK Maxx for some of the gorgeous smelling Pecksniffs or Vivian Gray …so much more nicely scented and unisex !

Nooo, liquid soap is so dated and bad for the environment! 😜

As someone who has Imperial Leather soap currently sat on a soap dish in the bathroom, AND an emergency roll of Izal in the bathroom cupboard I'm siding with your husband.

Sorry.

We keep ours in the airing cupboard with towels and sheets until it goes into the bathroom. It does smell nice.

Of course, he washes without soap!

@anotherdaytosmile democracy is wrong. IL can have no place in a civilised bathroom. Agree with pps toujours savon marseilles!

No, of course you aren't mingers. And as for the PP thinking that soap has to be individual, it is soap FGS. Clearly @Marycontrarygarden doesn't understand the basic premise of soap.

Here’s a nice classy soap

Somehow we seem to have acquired some bottles of body wash (nothing to do with me!), and I've been trying to use them up in the bath simply to get rid of them. But it's much more of a faff than using bar soap, plus you end up with loads of bubbles in the bath which take forever to rinse away. Fortunately I'm nearing the end of the last bottle!

Water softener! No scum, no limescale, no Viakal. We've had ours 30 years and it moved house with us.

Why do you have the Izal is there a genuine use for it like a noro outbreak or is it just the loo roll that noone will use

DH loves Imperial Leather, I prefer Wrights Cold Tar soap or Dettol soap, both of which are not far from carbolic soap. Soap is really far superior to shower gel, it really does kill bacteria and is environmentally more sound.

We have some lovely gifted Rituals shower foam in our bathroom but I only use it for showering the smelly Labrador.

Neither soap nor gels/washes are inherently better for your skin, it depends what your skin type is.

Hmmm. You should really only use stuff on the dog that’s specially formulated for them. Would you wash yourself with dog shampoo?

Shower gels, body wash etc all come in plastic bottles. Far better environmentally and cheaper to buy unwrapped bar soap. If you have a predisposition to sensitive skin you can get soap free bar wash.

Bar soap is superior in many ways as well as better for the environment. I think that it is liquid soaps and shower gels that are dated. We have long been brainwashed (pardon the phrase) to believe that detergent-based products are somehow superior; bar soap is generally both better and cheaper.

I buy French shea butter soap DH can use what he likes

This is my current favourite ‘soap’, it smells fabulous, so much so I bought 8 bars the other week.

Liquid soap DESTROYS my skin. Bar soap all the way

Fancy soap but less expensive than Jo Malone:

https://www.hedgewitchsoapery.co.uk/collections/soap

I have the priestess which is currently out of stock but they all smell fabulous.

Unless I was allergic or revolted, DH is welcome to buy himself any soap he wants. He doesn’t, so I buy some affordable plainish bars for everyday and treat myself to a slab of a lush one or fancy craft
fair one a few times a year

Dove all the way. Although I'd love to know where Imperial Leather got its name.

Why would it be sold in shops if no one used it? 😕

Bar soap is better for the planet as no plastic packaging. I also find it doesn’t dry my skin as much as handwash and shower gel.

Doesn't everyone have their own bathroom in your house?