How long does a bottle of shower gel last you?

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Just that really.

DH goes through a bottle approximately every 2 weeks or less which seems ridiculous to me. He showers once every day.

A bottle lasts me ages and I actually shower more often than he does

DH has been using a bottle of Molton Brown shower gel since Christmas !

I use soap .

About a week, but there are 4 of us.

Same in this house. DH uses tons of it. Drives me mad. He totally lathers it up so he looks like a snowman. It's totally unnecessary and wasteful.

Not sure as we always have a few on go. To be honest I do use tons, I could honestly only get about 5 showers out of one bottle (and that's just me) whats even worse a bar of soap would only last me the same length of time

On a side note, THIS makes for interesting reading.

I don't use it. We have a bar of soap.

1-2 bottles a week I shower twice a day! I always buy whatever's on offer and usually supermarket own brand!

DH and I have separate bottles. I have an expensive small bottle that lasts me ages. Weeks. I use it very sparingly.

DH has a large cheap bottle that lasts him about five minutes. He uses it to wash his hair too, although I have introduced him to the concept of shampoo.

I used to buy him Molton Brown but it was a waste of money!

Poppy, DH gets his MB shower gel as a present every year. It probably works out at quite good value though - ~£18 for 6 months!

I buy him cheap Boots stuff otherwise (69p!). I'll ask him which goes further...

Dove bar soap probably a new bar every 3 weeks on average ( between dh and myself)

6-8 weeks. We shower every day but use separate bottles. Using the body puff means you use a small amount and froths loads. Even have DH converted.

a couple of months.

We have the same issue in our house, DH and DS use the MAN SHOWER GEL in MAN size amounts, lasts fo a week . Me and DD use expensive xmas gift and a body puff and ours lasts for ages , I do comment about the amount of shampoo DH uses , considering he has less /no hair ,we wont go into that argument ??

If it was just me using it probably over 2 months for a big sanex bottle, but with DH and DC using it too just over a week sometimes two weeks. DS1 usually ends up leaving the lid open and it ends up spilling everywhere.
I want to find a pump bottle to decant it into. The DS's shampoo has started lasting ages since I started using the pump one.

I find soap is far too drying especially for eczema prone DH and DD.

A good couple of months between 2 of us. DH does use quite a bit at once but doesn't shower as often as he maybe should. I use it sparingly as i have dry skin. I also don't shower every day unless its hot like this and just use dove at the sink on alternate days.

for dh and I a couple of months.
we only use it in strategic areas though.
the dc use their shampoo for bits and pits.

Still on the same Molton Brown shower gel I had for my birthday in April - have just under a third left.

My DH's Nivea shower gel lasts him about a month.

DS1 (almost 15) used Original Source which lasts about 2 weeks!

We use separate bottles. DH is very sparing with his.. expensive stuff and showers twice a day. I use a puff and am happy to use a bar of soap. I am still using stuff for Christmas (teacher - got a lot!!) and got some nice mum to be sets recently.. so I have enough till this Christmas.. and so much moisturiser I had to give a lot away.

Probably a bottle a month for just me plus I use feminine wash too.

Ages.

DS likes to use Coal Tar Soap.
DH uses shower gel all over (bald head)
I use shower gel usinga body puff, which means a little goes a long way.

I would say an average bottle lasts at least 3 weeks to a month. We all shower at lesast once a day.

A good couple of months with just me using it. We used to share Original Source till I realised it wqs aggravating my hand eczema, would get through about a bottle a fortnight, no idea what DH does with it. I use more expensive gentler ones now and have banned DH from using mine. I ought to switch to bar soap really, I use it for handwashing and find it much less eczema-aggravating than liquid soaps.

There are two of us and we go through a bottle every 1-2 weeks. Both shower 1-2 times a day.

So DH is not necessarily alone in his excessive use of the stuff. I'm working on trying to get him to use soap, but I've been unsuccessful so far.

Thanks for the replies

I use far less since I got a bottle of Soap and Glory in a pump dispenser.

I am so shocked at people going through a bottle in a week or two. I think a bottle lasts me a couple of months at least and I shower 1-2 times a day.

Probably 3-4 months at least. We each use about a 50p piece sized blob a time, the kids use about a 20p piece sized blob. Anything more is unecessary and wasteful. I also have a body scrub that I use twice a week instead, and that lasts me about 4 to 6 months.