Some people prefer bars of soap to liquid soap

Zippie84 · 12-03-2015 01:49AM #1

Important news from BBC news Magazine Monitor 'A collection of cultural artefacts': Some people prefer bars of soap to liquid soap' and here's 5 reasons why.

1) It's what they've always known
2) Solid soap is more luxurious
3) The feeling of scouring away the dirt in the shower
4) Less packaging is better for the planet
5) The bottles are fiddly

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-31771436

Well I'm sure glad they said that SOME people prefer bars of soap to liquid soap.I mean... COME ON... this bar of slippery soap flying all over the place, all soapy and solid-like.

Way too much hassle.

I'm also guessing they haven't tried the new limited edition strawberry laces liquid hand soap.

Jeez, it was such a struggle not to eat my fingers that night. Although that's maybe an argument FOR liquid soap.

And 'liquid bottles are fiddly'. Em... have you tried using a bar of soap lately?

What is the world coming to?

Just give me that liquid soap and you'll be grand.

Imagine your job being writing articles on liquid soap vs solid soap :P

PandaPoo · 12-03-2015 01:50AM

Solid soap

In my house the bar of soap always had a pube on it. Liquid soap all the way.

Kevin McCloud · 12-03-2015 01:51AM

Sticking them up their hole is all they be doing with them.

The Backwards Man · 12-03-2015 01:52AM

I use Swarfega when I'm dirty, liquid soap when I'm just giving myself a quick going over and solid soap for a proper wash and shave.

Could never get into this shaving foam craic, a proper shave needs a bar of soap.

Poll needs more Swarfega

Miall108 · 12-03-2015 01:54AM

Ive seen some AH threads in my time but this one has to be up there with the worst in terms of imagination. Seriously?? Soap??? Do you have anything better to be doing than examining soap in great detail in your spare time

The Backwards Man · 12-03-2015 01:55AM

Miall108 wrote: »

Ive seen some AH threads in my time but this one has to be up there with the worst in terms of imagination

I take it you haven't seen many of my threads?

Zippie84 · 12-03-2015 01:56AM

Solid soap

Miall108 wrote: »

Ive seen some AH threads in my time but this one has to be up there with the worst in terms of imagination. Seriously?? Soap??? Do you have anything better to be doing than examining soap in great detail in your spare time

I think something may have gone over your head

Lyaiera · 12-03-2015 01:56AM

Solid soap

I was thinking how great, refreshing and a change of pace from what seems to be After Hours normality this was when I read the OP. I literally felt a sense of relief in my Boards attitude. Then the next two posts were about a single pube and shoving things up your hole and suddenly I'm all tense again.

galljga1 · 12-03-2015 01:59AM

Lyaiera wrote: »

I was thinking how great, refreshing and a change of pace from what seems to be After Hours normality this was when I read the OP. I literally felt a sense of relief in my Boards attitude. Then the next two posts were about a single pube and shoving things up your hole and suddenly I'm all tense again.

All back to normal, at one with the universe.

bjork · 12-03-2015 01:59AM

When I was younger I was addicted to collecting different types of soap. It was a slippery slope: I started with liquid soap and then moved on to the harder stuff. Now I'm clean though.

obplayer · 12-03-2015 01:59AM

You can't "acquire" liquid soap from hotels the way you can bars.:pac:

Ninap · 12-03-2015 02:01AM

Yeah, fairly lame thread. On the other hand, I do have a strong preference for a bar of soap in the shower. Liquid soap you gotta keep squeezing. And you waste much more. And how do you wash your, ahem, arsehole? With a bar of soap, the soap does the work, so to speak, rather than your fingers...

12-03-2015 02:02AM

It's good to see the real issues getting their opportunity to be discussed here on AH, although it's a bit disappointing that we had to wait for the BBC to do it first.

Liquid soap all the way for me, I was raised on bar and I hated the way it became almost unusable once it got reduced to a certain size

cork guitar player · 12-03-2015 02:03AM

Jaysus, what was I thinking.

Solid soap.

cork guitar player · 12-03-2015 02:03AM

Joke....

Edit, thats horrible and Im drunk, lol.

Karl Stein · 12-03-2015 02:03AM

Shower of bastards..

The Backwards Man · 12-03-2015 02:04AM

Karl Stein wrote: »

Shower of DIRTY bastards..

FYP!:pac:

Zippie84 · 12-03-2015 02:04AM

Solid soap

Karl Stein wrote: »

Shower of bastards..

Don't you mean barstars?

Baby Jane · 12-03-2015 02:05AM

Solid soap

Liquid soap all tha way. I've one of each on the sink and the bar of soap is as dry as the desert.

Kevin McCloud · 12-03-2015 02:06AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I use Swarfega when I'm dirty

For external use only.

Zippie84 · 12-03-2015 02:07AM

Solid soap

Ninap wrote: »

Yeah, fairly lame thread.

On the other hand, I do have a strong preference for a bar of soap in the shower. Liquid soap you gotta keep squeezing. And you waste much more. And how do you wash your, ahem, arsehole? With a bar of soap, the soap does the work, so to speak, rather than your fingers...

Yep, thankfully the point of the thread was very different from winning any un-lame thread awards :P

Thanks for your soapy contributions all the same though.

The Backwards Man · 12-03-2015 02:08AM

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

For external use only.

I've more than once mistook a blob of used swarfega on the worktop for gravy.:mad:

hatrickpatrick · 12-03-2015 02:09AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsdNhJ2hNgE

Zippie84 · 12-03-2015 02:11AM

Solid soap

I'm a confused woman.

References to liquid soap in the shower... surely it's a case of using shower gel in the shower, and not soap at all...? and with a shower puff or sponge to get the most lather out of it.....

cerastes · 12-03-2015 02:13AM

Carbolic soap and a wire brush

12-03-2015 02:14AM

I'm just hoping we get some militant soapists and this thread descends into skub

Kevin McCloud · 12-03-2015 02:16AM

I use shower gel as i can hang it off my manhood, it hangs very far forward in an elephant's trunk kind of arc.

conorh91 · 12-03-2015 02:26AM

Shower gel usually but my girlfriend left her bar soap in the shower one day (fancy soap) and I had people complimenting me on the smell, which you don't expect to happen with soap alone. It must be unisex.

Not sure what the brand is, it's white and round; it smells spicy and woody and maybe a little bit citrussy; I think it's something like the name of the firm which runs the Luas, Veolia (but it isn't veolia).

The Backwards Man · 12-03-2015 02:31AM

I get a heap of this stuff free every time I'm in Vegas, does me for the year, dunno if it's gel or soap or what but it cleans me up good anyway.

http://www.shoptivegas.com/O-Spa-Cleansing-Shower-Gel-3045300550.htm

ProudDUB · 12-03-2015 02:38AM

Got some lovely L'Occitane and Jo Malone hand soaps over the Chrimbo. Don't usually use 'em (the ones in gift sets generally get thrown out) but these were just too nice to throw away. They smell fablis, but I will be glad to get back to the liquid hand soap. I can't stand the little puddle of goo that the bar sits in. No matter how often you rinse out the soap dish, the bloody puddle is always there again the next time you go to use the soap. :mad:

Ruu · 12-03-2015 02:46AM

Bars of soap, stock up when I go to a hotel.

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