Do you know anyone who would pay £5.99 for a bottle of handwash?

[Detroit City]

This is a serious question - do you actually know anyone who would buy this?

a $12 bottle of liquid soap? No

 

[Y_I_Otter]

Sometime around 2000 my sister began gifting me Shiseido and Bulgari stuff, like shampoos and skin care products, on birthdays and the like. I discovered they're quality products that last a long time, smell nice and do what they're supposed to very well. Now, when I run out of the freebees, I buy them myself as occasional treats.

So, $12 on a bottle of liquid soap? Why not? It's not as though you're funding global terrorism or something. We all have things we indulge ourselves with that other "right thinking" people would find incomprehensible, or snobbish. One need not necessarily be the kind of person who buys £1,000 handbags to be the kind of person who's willing to spend £5.99 on a personal care item once in a while.

 

[mrsfran]

Sometime around 2000 my sister began gifting me Shiseido and Bulgari stuff, like shampoos and skin care products, on birthdays and the like. I discovered they're quality products that last a long time, smell nice and do what they're supposed to very well. Now, when I run out of the freebees, I buy them myself as occasional treats.

So, $12 on a bottle of liquid soap? Why not? It's not as though you're funding global terrorism or something. We all have things we indulge ourselves with that other "right thinking" people would find incomprehensible, or snobbish. One need not necessarily be the kind of person who buys £1,000 handbags to be the kind of person who's willing to spend £5.99 on a personal care item once in a while.

But it's the same size bottle as the cheaper brands. It's going to last the same amount of time. It's not like a skin or haircare care product where a more expensive product may go further than a cheaper one. You get one squirts worth every time you use it.

And once in a while? A bottle of handwash lasts about 4 weeks in our 2-person household. If it was every six months or so, fine, but every 4 weeks?

That's not to say that expensive smellies don't make lovely gifts. I love getting expensive lotions and so on as presents. But there's no way I'm buying Cath Kidson stuff at the supermarket instead of the £1.99 stuff that does exactly the same thing and smells and looks just as nice.

 

[moose]

I'd buy it. Well, not Cath Kidston, but Molton Brown or L'Occitane etc. Looks nicer, smells nicer, leaves your hands nicer, so why not?

 

[madzone]

I just wash my hands in the washing up water

 

[upinsmoke]

The Molton Brown stuff in the toilets at work is £14 a pop!!

i like!

 

[gentlegreen]

I don't usually use anything more than plain water (depends on what I've just been doing, and what I'm about to do), but when I do, it's Body Shop shower gel - which costs a bob or two - maybe £6 for 250ml ?

 

[Meltingpot]

Carex is £2 a bottle (though I've seen it on sale for half price) and it works fine. I think you'd be surprised if you knew just how cheap most of the soaps, shampoos etc. that you see on the shelves of your local supermarket actually are to make. You pay a lot for the packaging and distribution.

Ott; good point about us all having our luxuries though. I'd miss my chocolate in the morning if I stopped buying it.

 

[madzone]

I can make enough soap for a year for about £2.

 

[blues]

Unfortunately one friend of mine would consider £6 cheap and nasty.

 

[butterfly child]

We're using reliable, but dull, Palmolive at the moment, but I really prefer Molton Brown's Naran Ji handwash. A tenner a bottle (unless it's gone up) but you only need a pea sized dollop for a more than adequate wash. It smells gorgeous, and lasts for ages.

Whether I would buy it if we had kids that don't know what "pea sized" means, I don't know.

 

[Geri]

It's not like a skin or haircare care product where a more expensive product may go further than a cheaper one. You get one squirts worth every time you use it.

I don't really understand that reasoning. With a cheapy one, you might need two squirts to do the job, like with cheapo washing up liquid.

 

[CharlieAddict]

my brother pays £18 plus for his.
and he's a cleaner in a macdonalds. and i'm not kidding.

 

[mattie]

Fancy lotions are all the rage in engineering.

Last time I was on site, on one side of the soap there's the swarfega, the other there's the moisturiser and the barrier cream.

You can tell who's just done the sweaty dump from hell, he's the bastard using the swarfega.

 

[gentlegreen]

Engineers aren't what they were - you used to be able to spot them straight away on university campuses ....

 

[Geri]

I love Swarfega!

 

[gentlegreen]

I love Swarfega!

I once made the mistake of spray painting my motorcycle frame in a sealed shed using yacht enamel in a sprayer that came with an electrolux vacuum cleaner ... I took the precaution of wrapping an old tee shirt round my face ...

I had to use Swarfega to get the paint out of my hair.

 

[Geri]

Have you ever noticed how it separates if you don't use it for ages? I had to chuck the last lot away - I just don't get oily enough to use it all.

 

[mentalchik]

I just wash my hands in the washing up water

I luvs ya madz........







i do too

 

[The Groke]

I love Swarfega!

 

[The Groke]

I had to use Swarfega to get the paint out of my hair.

Took me ages too, what with all your whining and wriggling:

"ow you're pulling it"

"you got soap in my eye"

etc etc.

 

[gentlegreen]

:d