Soap or Shower gel?

Soap, usually dove or a those fancy ones in the huge block you get in nice gifty shops

With shower gel more is ended up being used than is needed and so an unnecessary amount of plastic is being used and disposed of

I also Just think soap feels like it leaves you cleaner

I think actually Dove market themselves as soap free

I switched to soap before Christmas and I'm a fan.

Buying from The Black Stuff, their deodorants too. Supposedly all handmade, and natural, to whatever benefit that is.

Feels nice, they smell nice, packaging is really basic, and there's some fun branding around limited editions etc

Use The Black Stuff as well. Find it very refreshing and like the rough scrub ones.

Some of the scents are nice.

Have a couple of their anti perspirants but found they dried out very quickly.

Strong soap fan: good scrub with soap and hot water, clean as a whistle. Just rinse thoroughly, of course.

No plastic bottle to pollute the earth - I can buy soap wrapped in paper, which I compost.

Soap is very versatile, too - for all kinds of cleaning, not just self in shower.

And there's a million types, scents and flavours: I specially like the exfoliating ones, for patches of rough skin.

I think this is just a generation thing, I don't know of anyone who uses a bar of soap to shower with. Granted I don't know the ins and outs of all my mates routines but from being in their houses and using the bathroom I'm yet to see any with a bar of soap.

The prevalence of shower gels in supermarkets would show that there's a much larger demand for it than bars of soap.

Soap is Lipid (fat, animal or plant) with Lye (wood ash H2SO4, sodium hydroxide), boiled up and recondensed in a cycle in a reflux environment. There is a great video on youtube on the last handmade soap factory in Lebanon. Its all poured out on a lime stone floor and cooled, then cut, stacked and cured for a month and packaged. Uncured soap will tear the skin off you.

I’ve been using L’Oreal men expert for a while now, hair and body wash, does the job, nicely fragrant without being overpowering…

Ummm... Am I the only one who simply uses the shampoo as a shower gel?!!!

Radox do huge bottles and refills that they claim use a significant % less plastic; but the refills feel far less recyclable to me

PET bottles like the normal stuff comes in can be recycled relatively well by now - normal 500ml Coke in Ireland comes in fully recycled PET bottles. The refills are using two different types of plastic moulded together which means they are probably only fit to be burnt as waste to energy incinerator fuel.

I just use the huge bottles so there's less total number of bottles being used. Have changed to hand soap because the pumps on liquid soap cannot be recycled at all; and most liquid soap has antibacterials in it that you don't really want to over-use.

6 months? The same 4 or 5 people are still at it daily on the thread on here!