Does anyone else use bars of soap instead of shower gel?

15-11-2020 3:25pm

Female - soap bars

Imperial Leather soap bars for the win.

None of your nivea, l’oreal or similar messing about for this fella.

There’s an awful lot of soap being sold to men who want to smell like women. Can’t figure out when exactly it all went so bloody wrong.

JustAThought · 15-11-2020 3:28pm

Male - shower gel

JayZeus wrote: »

Imperial Leather soap bars for the win.

None of your nivea, l’oreal or similar messing about for this fella.

There’s an awful lot of soap being sold to men who want to smell like women. Can’t figure out when exactly it all went so bloody wrong.

Its being marketed at their girlfriends who buy the stuff!!! Maybe to cover the eau de diesel and pong of feet!

SeaFields · 15-11-2020 3:30pm

Female - soap bars

I get The Bluebeards Revenge soap bars. They're bigger than the standard bar and the clear one in particular smells lovely! Lasts forever too.

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Hamsterchops · 15-11-2020 3:45pm

Female - soap bars

A bar of Carbolic soap goes a long way.

Logo · 15-11-2020 5:10pm

Would like to replace shower gel with soap but I can't find a suitable container in which to store the soap- it's a pity that this is the deal-breaker for me - any ideas?

The Continental Op · 15-11-2020 5:23pm

Female - soap bars

Logo wrote: »

Would like to replace shower gel with soap but I can't find a suitable container in which to store the soap- it's a pity that this is the deal-breaker for me - any ideas?

Make a hole in the soap and thread a bit of rope through it tie a knot and then guess what you've got

jippo nolan · 15-11-2020 7:15pm

corner of hells wrote: »

We use Swarfega ,none of this fancying around with your la di da gels and soaps.

Put a table spoon full of sand into it to make it really effective!

15-11-2020 10:18pm

Your poll should have had a both option on your poll.

We use shower gel in the shower and dettol sensitive bars of soap for handwashing.

DoozerT6 · 17-11-2020 9:01pm

I used bar soaps happily for a few years to cut down on plastic waste until unfortunately the soap started to dry out my skin

I guess my skin changed as I got older and it didn't like it so much. One shower with Aveeno dry skin shower gel and my skin felt much better. If I could get soap-free bars that weren't hugely expensive I would buy them. I much prefer bars tbh.

The Continental Op · 17-11-2020 9:14pm

Female - soap bars

Another Aveeno user, its great stuff if only you can get it out of the bottle. Its so thick and viscus its I'm sure they could go a step further and make a solid bar out of it.

17-11-2020 9:26pm

I use baby wash as shower gel. I find syndets/soaps and regular shower gels to be a bit drying but baby products are ph balanced and very gentle on the skin. Works very well and doesn't clash with cologne afterwards or irritate your special places as it's so mild.

Graces7 · 18-11-2020 7:04am

Male - shower gel

As I don't have a working shower or a bath here? Soap. "Simple Soap" at present until I can find Pears by post. Not been into a shop since before unowot arrived. Online pharmacy.

mud · 18-11-2020 9:25am

The Continental Op wrote: »

Make a hole in the soap and thread a bit of rope through it tie a knot and then guess what you've got

Jimmy Saville's soap on a rope?:p

I've recently swapped from Sanex shower cream to Sanex soap.

My friend who died in March gave me Pear's soap for Christmas last year and I'm loathe to open it just yet but I know I'll have to otherwise it'll just go for nothing.

Graces7 · 18-11-2020 10:58am

Male - shower gel

mud wrote: »

Jimmy Saville's soap on a rope?:p

I've recently swapped from Sanex shower cream to Sanex soap.

My friend who died in March gave me Pear's soap for Christmas last year and I'm loathe to open it just yet but I know I'll have to otherwise it'll just go for nothing.[/QUOTE

Lucky you! Not seen Pears for years. if you want to rehome it..

Mr. CooL ICE · 18-11-2020 11:37am

I have 9 bottles of shower gel here. I keep getting them as feckin presents. I get them faster than I can use them.

My family might be trying to tell me something.

donatmoto · 29-05-2022 1:45pm

It's been a year since I gave up shower gel, which was often too fragrant and irritated my skin. For a year now, I have been using bars of soap, only from natural and odorless ingredients, from the Mild Soap brand; you can check their homepage and see how many nice products they have. All my family uses these products because they moisturize the skin so well. I always choose to give as gifts some bars of soap as well. Thus, I prefer to give my beloved people the products I like to use.

kirk. · 30-05-2022 6:15am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/115290354#Comment_115290354

Same people who decided spreads were better than butter

tabby aspreme · 30-05-2022 6:48am

Male - soap bars

Bars of soap only for this male, Mr price usually has Palmolive, Imperial Lather, and sometimes Pears. DE razor, shaving soap and brush also.

Sgt Hartman · 30-05-2022 7:41am

Male - shower gel

I was using sandlewood soap for a while as I love the scent of it. It was causing soap gunk to build up in the shower drainhole though. I usually now just get the really big bottles of Cien Pink Grapefruit shower gel from Lidl and use them to top up my Zara shower gel dispenser bottle.

whisky_galore · 30-05-2022 9:27am

Male - soap bars

Pros: Less packaging, cheaper, takes up less space, not subject to liquids inspection at airports.

Don't really care what sort of soap, whatever's cheapest.

Cons: Trying to pack a wet soap bar when staying away from home.

Pussyhands · 30-05-2022 9:31am

Male - shower gel

Never considered it but might do now. What about when you leave the wet soap down and it leaves soap on the counter/bath

And what about gym bags? How do people transport them? Put them into a bag after use?

Dempo1 · 30-05-2022 9:50am

Male - soap bars

Surprised how few males use Bar of Soap in shower. Gel seems pointless to me in a shower, squeeze it onto the palm of your hands and most is gone by the time you try to apply, even the bits rescued basically wash away before you get a chance to rub it in. Two handed operation required too.

A Bar of soap seems more practical, only one hand required at a time, easy to use when cleaning and especially in those areas I dare not mention 😁

I'd have thought Soap more cost effective too as Gels presumably more expensive.

ednwireland · 30-05-2022 10:33am

the OH uses https://donegalnaturalsoap.ie/ shampoo bars but I can't get on with them so its head and shoulders.

shower it's mostly soap bars from the supermarket. shaving is a brush and block of soap from the above, done that for years.

30-05-2022 10:38am

I'm not picky about soap or gel when I get home from my ultimate gym session. When you last as long as I do at the gym, you'd wash yourself with anything.

Ubbquittious · 30-05-2022 12:39pm

What caused the conversion to shower gel?

Ham Grenade · 30-05-2022 2:17pm

Only for masturbatory alignment reasons

Princess Calla · 30-05-2022 2:53pm

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I blame the Tahiti shower gel adds from the 80's ...if memory serves they were abit risque.

That and pubes in the soap bar 🤮

Strumms · 30-05-2022 3:04pm

Male - shower gel

Shower gel, much more user friendly.

De Bhál · 30-05-2022 3:13pm

I can't understand why at this stage of the green war on plastic, there aren't large containers in the major supermarkets where everything can be refilled.

Such as:

shampoo...shower gel...washing machine liquid...cereals..etc

The amount of waste we could reduce would be massive.

Shower gel here for the shower and soap bars at the sinks

corner of hells · 30-05-2022 7:07pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119135420#Comment_119135420

Yup , in fact if you could have a shower in the supermarket as you fill your container , it would all help in the green war.

sam t smith · 30-05-2022 7:13pm

Male - shower gel

You are all in thrall to ‘big soap’ which has fooled you into believing that you must wash every day.

Stop washing to save the planet.

Soap dodgers unite!!!

Ubbquittious · 31-05-2022 12:55pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119136476#Comment_119136476

We'll have to go back to the hippy days !

Earthhorse · 31-05-2022 3:07pm

Male - soap bars

Soap. Shower gel is so wasteful. Can't get a decent wash from it. Create a decent lather with your soap and you're set.

Bobblehats · 31-05-2022 4:15pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119140121#Comment_119140121

It’s the length of my pubic hair that determines the quality of lather? Can be a trade-off in that regard

Riddle101 · 31-05-2022 5:12pm

Male - shower gel

Depends really, if I'm having a bath or shower I'll use shower gel mostly, but I'll use soap to wash my face and hands. I'll also use soap if I'm out of shower gel and vice versa.

Earthhorse · 31-05-2022 9:55pm

Male - soap bars

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119140451#Comment_119140451

I… what?!?

corner of hells · 31-05-2022 10:45pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119135255#Comment_119135255

A friend of mine was a single male living in a house share with three couples .

One evening they all had a house discussion to sort a number of issues in the house , one of which was pubes in the soap belonging to one of girls , he was being blamed for the pubes.

Little did they know he had his own bar of soap that he kept in a little plastic box ,when confronted he brought his little soap box to the table and pointed out his pubes on his bar of soap.

El_Duderino 09 · 31-05-2022 11:03pm

I made a change to soap bars a couple of years ago. It was great and they last well, not much plastic or packaging compared to shower gel. But I kept getting dry foreskin. It got chapped ans sore.

Took a while to figure out it was the soap. So it's not for me I won't go back to soap. But i would recommend trying it. Just be vigilant for any changes.

Princess Calla · 31-05-2022 11:04pm

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I think I just vomited a little.

Jesus I wouldn't even think of sharing shower soap, especially in a house share situation.

walshb · 31-05-2022 11:05pm

Soap non-existent in ours. Gels/hand wash just far more convenient.

EmmetSpiceland · 31-05-2022 11:44pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119142298#Comment_119142298

And it sounds like all involved could do with a little grooming. Nothing excessive, mind.

Stephen_Maturin · 01-06-2022 1:26am

Male - soap bars

Soap bars always for me (barring the annual Christmas lynx Africa shower gel kit from Mam, I’m 27)

BrianD3 · 01-06-2022 9:56am

Bar of soap for bodywash and for hair too.

Shower gel is just one of many heavily advertised, specific purpose bullsh1t products. So are fancy toothpastes, many cleaning products, skincare creams, breakfast cereals etc. Market, market, market, associate your product with some activity. After a while people use it without questioning. They think "I'm having a shower therefore I need shower gel" and anyone who doesn't use it is a smelly weirdo.

whisky_galore · 01-06-2022 10:41am

Male - soap bars

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119143142#Comment_119143142

Smaller, more expensive containers of product in pastel colours and fancy shapes marketed at women are the greatest con job ever and women fall for it everytime.

fryup · 02-06-2022 10:43am

Male - shower gel

i think we're all agreed the worst thing about bars of soap in the shower & bath - is of course pubic hair, it always gets stuck to it and you're there afterwards picking at it to get them out😕

nah its shower gel all the way for me

magicbastarder · 02-06-2022 10:49am

Male - soap bars

i only ever used shower gel when i was cycling to and from work and used shower gel in the showers there. can't understand why anyone would willingly use shower gel otherwise, it's useless.

and for those who wonder about keeping the bar from turning to mush, there are soap trays for that, such as this:

https://www.ikea.com/ie/en/p/tisken-soap-dish-with-suction-cup-white-90381284/

El_Duderino 09 · 02-06-2022 11:18am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119148205#Comment_119148205

Not if you use a scrunchy. Rub the soap on the scrunchy and not on your pubes and chest hair.

Grayson · 02-06-2022 12:43pm

Male - soap bars

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/115290215#Comment_115290215

I started using Dettol soap years ago. I'd highly recommend it to anyone who can get a bit whiffy in the armpits. I was the kind of person who would shower twice a day, boil wash clothes and still be smelly. The detol soap kills the bacteria that generates the smell. I've always had a bar ever since.

sam t smith · 02-06-2022 12:45pm

Male - shower gel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119142220#Comment_119142220

Was she a ‘hirsute’ lady? 😂

Earthhorse · 02-06-2022 1:49pm

Male - soap bars

You don't use soap directly. Use a wash cloth and you won't have any problems with hair.

Does anyone else use bars of soap instead of shower gel?

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