Conventional versus 'liquid' soaps?

[Rollem]

both

conventional in the bathroom, liquid in the kitchen

sorted

 

[fogbat]

Lush are talking bollix - theres nothing natural about their products - most of them contain Sodium Laureth Sulphate. I avoid anything and everything containing that ingredient. It's a harsh, cheap detergent, they use it in car washes FFS - would you like to use that kind of thing on your body?
I have a new found love of soaps, but I'm more into the handmade or essential oil laden kind. I think it depends on the type of soap you buy whethe it's drying or not.

They use water in carwashes, too.

Presumably you avoid that?

 

[pinkmonkey]

Water is not the active ingredient you plum!


I wouldn't wash with an engine degreaser either (another product contaning SLS), would you?

I also wouldn't chuck anything containing SLS directly in the river - which is where all my grey water goes.

 

[janeb]

I never use soap at home, just wash with cold water every morning and night. Sometimes use a liquid soap on my hands but no real preference for what it is, usually what's next to the sink (ie at work or wherever). Soap just dries my skin so much I end up using loads of handcream to stop the itching

 

[ethel]

Lush products are total evil. So that's a bit rich coming from them. No I don't want a stinky bar of soap that I've got to keep in the fucking fridge!

i don't keep mine in the fridge!

 

[fogbat]

Water is not the active ingredient you plum!


I wouldn't wash with an engine degreaser either (another product contaning SLS), would you?

I also wouldn't chuck anything containing SLS directly in the river - which is where all my grey water goes.

Sorry, but "they use it in car washes FFS - would you like to use that kind of thing on your body?" is a colossally stupid argument

 

[teuchter]

Water is not the active ingredient you plum!


I wouldn't wash with an engine degreaser either (another product contaning SLS), would you?

I also wouldn't chuck anything containing SLS directly in the river - which is where all my grey water goes.

Surely you shouldn't really be chucking anything directly in a river?

 

[_angel_]

i don't keep mine in the fridge!

They make out you have to keep them in the fridge. My ex boyfriend ate one of their 'chocolate roll' soaps, then moaned about the taste of it. But then, he was just a bit daft.

 

[pinkmonkey]

Surely you shouldn't really be chucking anything directly in a river?

In the UK - grey water goes in the river, sewage does not. On French canals they have sea toilets and everything goes in the River.

Fogbat, why is it a stupid argument? Or are you just trolling?

 

[Groucho]

Either you're very, very smelly or you go to a lot of hotels. Them bars of soap are microscopic.

Both. I have shower gell as well..soap just fotr hand washing. Lots of hotels; yes quite often for work.

 

[Disaster]

I just wash my hands with washing up liquid.

Although when I use the shower I have extra-extra-extra sensitive girly pink shower gel because I have terribly sensitive skin. When I use normal soap it feels like I'm covered in ant bites.

 

[the button]

both

conventional in the bathroom, liquid in the kitchen

sorted

Yep. Same as me. I always wash my hands and scrub my nails/nicotine-stained fingers with conventional soap while I'm in the shower. Otherwise liquid.

 

[Meltingpot]

I'm currently using some solid olive oil soap from some place in Syria, it comes in huge blocks, lasts forever and my skins never been better

I haven't seen that for a while, Earth Exchange in Highgate used to sell it I believe.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

I used to use this whilst I was travelling.

You don't seem to find in the UK.

 

[keithy]

when I was with my ex they had NO SOAP in the bathroom so when I was back in sheff (obv uni holidays meant i was back for a few weeks at a time as I enjoyed being with him and that)I would go wilkos and buy lots of nice handwash liquid joy. They were all shocked at he sudden presence of soap, but seemed to love getting through it at the speed of light.

Now they must all have filth hands the fuckin scum

 

[keithy]

I used to use this whilst I was travelling.

You don't seem to find in the UK.

nah i haven't seen that but you can get the dettol liquid handwash

 

[Jazzz]

liquid - has to be DrBronner's though

 

[xenon]

Washing up liquid to clean hands in the kitchen.
Bar of Simple at bathroom sink. The perfumed stuff irritates my hands.
Shower gell, in the shower.