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?

One of my grandmas used it. DO NOT DISS THE LEATHER.

@Shedmistress ,there have been countless threads asking for sulphate free shampoo but people use sulphates on their skin.

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Better for sensitive skin, too. Hand wash destroys my hands.

Imperial leather smells lovely but we're a Waitrose essentials family.

Exactly. How is this even a debate.

Does he really think it's classy though? Surely the price will tell him it's not? Perhaps he just likes it regardless, and that's perfectly okay. Let him have it. You buy the good stuff for yourself and be happy that it will last twice as long with only you using it.

DH and I are utterly devoted to our Dove bars. I have no idea where it sits in the soap (technically not a soap, but anyway) hierarchy and I don't care. I don't mind what soap people choose, I am just happy to see a proper bar of stuff deployed instead of the useless, expensive, ineffective and much worse for the environment shite that is a shower gel/mousse/foam.

I grew up with bar soap - Pears and imperial leather - but I’ve been using liquid soap for years. However I have recently moved back to bar soap - though still usually leave both out so folks can choose.

I magage holiday accommodation. The changing point for me was running out of my own liquid soap at home so using a bar of the complimentary soap we leave out for guests instead (they come wrapped in their own box).

The difference was incredible. My skin was so much better, but the main thing was how much fresher we all stayed - and for so long.

I’ve since done some research and indeed real soap does clean the skin much better (but watch out for those that look like soap but aren’t - they are usually marketed as beauty bars).

(The primary difference is that traditional bar soaps are made from fats and oils through a chemical process, while beauty bars are generally formulated with synthetic detergents (syndets). - according to AI).

I’m currently using soap from Yorkshire Soap - I slice it up from its big bars- I love it but just wish it had curved corners. I also keep Pears in as well, the small bars.

I would never bother with Jo Malone, despite being an avid perfume collector, as I’m just not a fan and think the soap way too expensive, but if you love it, then why not?
Personally though I’m with you husband - but surely there is room for both as a compromise ?

The posters going, "Urgh" about bar soap are weird. You might be able to recycle plastic bottles but it still uses energy and other resources. Much better not to create the need for recycling in the first place.

I use supermarket own brand bar soap - cheap, vegan and gets you clean. The op must think I'm a complete pleb.

Snap. I didn’t actually realise people still used soap until this thread, let alone that Jo Malone makes it too!

Do people use bar soap

If I use shower gel under my arms, it doesn’t seem to shift my antiperspirant and I get stinky and sweaty quickly
a flannel and soap and I feel clean for ages

No, nobody on this thread who said their favourite soap actually uses it

Those big chunky bars would slip out of my hands and land on my foot and I'd break something !

I bought some Nesti Dante soap a while ago (on a recommendation from MN), pretty picture on the wrapper , huuuge bar .
I spend many days admiring how the bruise on my foot went from purple to yellow as it faded , the corner of this behemoth bar bounced right off me .

I never said imperial leather was coal tar. I buy a 4 pack of wrights coal tar soap for dh and whatever I want for myself. Think its sanex I currently have. Took a pears green one to use on holiday

I switched to bar soap when perimenopause (sorry) caused my skin to itch so badly, and shower gel just seemed to make it worse.

Do you both use the same kind of shampoo? Probably not. I don't see why soap is any different.

Orange Imperial Leather reminds me of my grandparents, and is definitely a smell of childhood!

I have very sensitive skin, and a lot of shower gels made it very dry and cracked, so it is soap bars all the way here. To stop the scummy bits of soap sticking to the side of the bath and sinks, I have several of these soap dishes, which have a drip tray to catch it all (and stops the soap from flying off the side of the bath when it's wet): https://yorkshiresoap.co.uk/product/soap-dish/

just by two soaps and don't use each others.

They do make little soaps too, I've often bought them as stocking fillers. Agree the bath soaps are too dangerous to take into the shower!

@MrsEndeavourMorse , your reply to @dementedpixie showed you'd either not read her post properly or you'd not understood it.

@Diorling , yes, you are right.
...real soap does clean the skin much better (but watch out for those that look like soap but aren’t - they are usually marketed as beauty bars).
(The primary difference is that traditional bar soaps are made from fats and oils through a chemical process, while beauty bars are generally formulated with synthetic detergents...

The long list of chemicals I listed in a pp was from a brand that's considered fairly luxurious. (MB). The plain brand was Simple.

Omg! Never knew huge soap could be such a hazard!

Pears all the way for me. My husband buys fancy man soap from The Black Stuff. Smells amazing

Have you read the thread

I'd have fished it out, what a waste of good soap!

I like the ones you get in TK Maxx. They have different ones at different times of the year, big chunky bars and they last for ages.

Really? You didn’t think to just have your bar of soap each? That’s the first that came to mind.

Using a ‘poll’ on MN to somehow (hopefully) shame your dh into using a soap he doesn’t like is weird sorry. Much weirder than using Imperial soap

What's wrong with sharing soap? It literally binds to the dirt/germs and gets rinsed down the sink. Presumably you wash off any residual dirt on the bar when you rinse the suds off, before it goes back on the dish.