DH and I disagree about Soap 😳

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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?

I shudder, use soap and shower gel. Even shower mousse. Why?! Because I like it and life’s too short. Plus you recycle the containers.

I know, people are bloody odd. To that poster, you know bar soap gets you cleaner? It also, if you are in a hot country, doesn't make you sweat as much as shower gel.

Tbf, we are old so maybe it’s our smell

What was the soap in an irredesent box called? I loved that stuff in the 80's

Imperial Leather isn't coal tar. You're thinking of Wright's coal tar.
I like classic soap and fancy soap, get one either side of the basin

Pearl?

It’s not retro to try to reduce single use plastic. We use bar soap, washing powder in a cardboard box, glass milk bottles…

Ah I love Jo Malone so but I can't think of any scent the produce that I would like a man smelling like.

Men smell better with scents like forests, wood etc.

Let him hace his scent and you have yours!

My dh changed to Imperial last year and it actually makes him come back from work still actually smelling ok. Because other brands he tried ugh I could tell when we was coming into the house despite all the deodorants he was using to...However I'm allergic to most so have my Palmolive one...Also we recently went away for a few days and can I say by accident we found out Imperial is amazing on stains, I spilt some wine we had nothing but the soap and it took stain straight out

Soap is soap is soap for me.

Tangentially related bonus comment: one of the silver linings of the COVID pandemic was bars and restaurants got much better at keeping soap/handwash in their toilets.

I use bar soap in the shower daily from Highland Soap Co. I also use the shampoo bars. Luxury stuff. I won't go back to plastic bottles.

I remember Camay but we were allergic to it.

Imperial Leather is 70s/80s nostalgia soap. I didn’t know you could still get it. It always went dry and cracked near the end, in an unpleasant way.

I like Faith in Nature soaps. You can buy a boxful.

Don't like soap that much. Hangs around getting manky.

Soap dishes also collect moisture which can lead to mould behind them.

Shower gel and liquid soap all the way.

Although I would like it if the dispensers were a bit more environmentally friendly.

DH was an Imperial Leather fan - I was not. He was not a fan of feminine floral scents ... so we each had our own soap. However in recent years I have managed to get him to use liquid soaps and shower gels (green apple or lemon).

I buy Waitrose essentials soap so yes you are being unreasonable. Save Jo Malone for body cream

The best ever soap is olive oil soap, you can get it on amazon

I mean I like bars of soap- but I wouldn’t choose that one.

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That is hilarious! Does your cat respond to any other soaps????

OP, my husband and I have separate soaps and shower gels because we like different scents.

Shower gel is detergent, as is hand wash. Soap is soap. Look at the ingredients.

Soap: Ingredients

Sodium Palmate, Aqua, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Glycerin, Palm Kernel Acid, Tetrasodium Etidronate

Handwash: Ingredients
Vegan formula. Find out more.
Water / Aqua / Eau, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Propylene Glycol, Laureth-7 Citrate, Glycerin, Coco-Glucoside, Fragrance / Parfum, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Oil, Polyquaternium-7, Lonicera Caprifolium (Honeysuckle) Flower Extract, Lonicera Japonica (Honeysuckle) Flower Extract, Ethylhexyl Salicylate, Butyl Methoxydibenzoylmethane, Diethylhexyl Syringylidenemalonate, Limonene, Linalool, Hexyl Cinnamal, Amyl Cinnamal, Hydroxycitronellal, Eugenol, Tocopherol, Sodium Phytate, Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate, Sodium Benzoate, Phenoxyethanol, Citric Acid, Sodium Hydroxide, Peg-18 Glyceryl Oleate/Cocoate, Sodium Chloride, Hydrogenated Palm Glycerides Citrate, Alcohol Denat., Yellow 5 / C.I. 19140

Imperial leather 🤢 I hate the smell!
if he loved his ”luxury” soap let him have it and get a second soap dish for your preferred option.

I have 2 bars just for me. Detol soap for first scrub then a nice L’occitaine one for second scrub 😂😂😂 but then I’m a bit of a weirdo about getting clean

Im agreeing with others.
Its not a big deal to have your own soap. You can please yourself what you get then.

I use Pears shower gel. The smell is so nostalgic. I expect you disapprove OP.

Don't ban Imperial Leather OP, it gives your husband happy, nostalgic vibes.

This highland soap looks gorgeous. Expensive but maybe it lasts a long time.