When and why did it stop being ok to wash your body with a bar of soap?

also, the potential for shared bar nastiness is ever-present.

bars all the way, yo. fuck washing a gel.

xpost dude soap can't get dirty!! you are all insane.

Actually that isnt true. It breeds hideous amounts of germs when it sits idle in the warm hunidity of a bathroom. Soap is not an antiseptic, its just... soap. And it can indeed breed germs.

Having said that I use bar soap but a) I refuse to share it with anyone and b) I give it a good rinse with hot water each time before I use it which probably sounds mental but hey, I never get sick or anything.

-- lauren (jaguarrid...), May 22nd, 2004

Sadly, I read this as 'nasty cunt'.

Liquid soap for washing hands, because bar soap always flies across the bathroom when I try to pick it up.

Those netty things are stupid. They do nothing.

(true story. Our washcloths get washed very frequently, some people I flatshared w/, i left washcloth w/ when I moved out. s.th. like 8ys later, they were still using it, and it was all slimy and didn't look like it had been cleaned since then ew ew ew

Those netty things are stupid. They do nothing.

exfoliate? a estholigist (sp? you know skin person) friend of mine with extraordinarily smooth gorgeous skin recommened I always use these. gentle daily exfoliation.

lauren, how do you slough?

total tangent but there's a bar here (where my guy's playing tonight) called the Bar of S0ap, cause there's a laundromat in the back. get it? huh huh. except everyone calls it the Bar of c0ke since that's why everyone really goes there.

me too!

huh?!

It depends what you mean by "going at it."

Smart girl, that Kim. Because, you know, Valerie Solanis shot to ki-- oh wait a second, you say that Valerie's long since passed away? Hm.

I'm similar to certain people on this thread in that I use bar soap to shower and liquid soap to wash my hands. Anytime I try to shower using liquid soap, it adds at least five minutes to my total shower time, meaning more wasted time and water. Besides, I always seem to use more liquid soap than it seems should be necessary.

http://www.stcsc.edu/ecology/algae/chlamydomonas.jpg

experimenting with body wash/gel because the bars of soap seemed to go so fast.

pros: easy to use dispenser, smells good

con: not sure how much to use?

if you keep the bar soap outside the shower or in a place where water doesn't hit it it will last months

Shower gels don't rinse easily enough for me.

Shower gels needlessly over complicate bathing.

I have gone back to simple bar soaps after years of other cleansers. TBF as long as I buy nice soaps, I like them just fine. Goats milk, olive oil, nice oatmeal ones, red grape oil, clear glycerin soaps for summer, men's sandalwood & hebal scents...actually I'm starting to like it a lot.

I don't keep the bar soap around the sink for handwashing, though, because it would get truly dirty.

kiss my face olive oil & lavender

I love Dr. Bronner's lavender soap.

more threads should have "PUBES" as the first answer imo

Living in a redneck, white-trash, hillbilly neighborhood - Advice?

wash your body with a bar of soap

Use a sponge or pouffey thing if you're not already, it'll make the shower gel last a lot longer.

Someone sent me a bunch of soap bars (I usually use liquid soap in refillable bottles) and I'd forgotten how that stuff gets everywhere. It kind of just sits in a layer of sludge when you're not using it and I get lumps of it under my fingernails. Liquid all the way (Body Shop coconut <3 <3)

Don't understand why gels would complicate/add time to shower. They suit me just fine.

Big gas face to the clammy bottoms of soap bars btw.

With shower get, you have to grab the bottle and open the bottle and pour out the right amount and and then try to close the bottle and put it back in its proper place with one hand and maybe your eyes closed since your other hand is filled with shower gel and maybe you have soap on your face and wash yourself and then maybe pour out some more if you run out of lather and then and you can't tell just by looking when you're running out of shower gel and when you're done, you've got an empty plastic bottle that you have to throw away or recycle.

With soap bars, you just grab the bar and lather and go. When the soap is gone, it's time for new soap. Bar soap is also a lot cheaper.

One of these eliminates soap goo (which is really just soap; it's not like soap melts into raw sewage or something):

http://www.stacksandstacks.com/images/product/reg-15454.jpg

well, soap and bacteria but...yeah there are ways to avoid soap goo

since i was curious

Washing with contaminated bar soap is unlikely to transfer bacteria.

Heinze JE, Yackovich F.

Dial Corporation, Dial Technical Center, Scottsdale, AZ 85254.

Recent reports of the isolation of microorganisms from used soap bars have raised the concern that bacteria may be transferred from contaminated soap bars during handwashing. Since only one study addressing this question has been published, we developed an additional procedure to test this concern. In our new method prewashed and softened commercial deodorant soap bars (0.8% triclocarban) not active against Gram-negative bacteria were inoculated with Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa to give mean total survival levels of 4.4 X 10(5) c.f.u. per bar which was 70-fold higher than those reported on used soap bars. Sixteen panelists were instructed to wash with the inoculated bars using their normal handwashing procedure. After washing, none of the 16 panelists had detectable levels of either test bacterium on their hands. Thus, the results obtained using our new method were in complete agreement with those obtained with the previously published method even though the two methods differ in a number of procedural aspects. These findings, along with other published reports, show that little hazard exists in routine handwashing with previously used soap bars and support the frequent use of soap and water for handwashing to prevent the spread of disease.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3402545

Dial Corporation, Dial Technical Center, Scottsdale, AZ 85254.

but from my understanding of the way soap works, it makes your skin so slippery that the bacteria just get washed away. so it makes sense that the bacteria on the soap bar will, too, be lost in time, like tears in the rain. time to die.

using soap with triclocarban seems like a good way to breed antibacterial resistant bacteria in your soap holder, though

Yeah I'm not a fan of triclosan in everything, though admittedly I'll use it in the liquid soap for hand washing, but that I only use when I've changed cat litter or have handled raw meat or something (+ scalding hot water which prob does more than the soap does anyway).

I'm with Jenny who writes about love.

It's actually the friction on washing your hands that kills the most bacteria, not the soap or the hot water (which isn't hot enough to kill bacteria).

does it have to be hand to hand friction

don't get ideas.

jenny, you make that sound way more complicated than it actually is

Dial Corporation, Dial Technical Center, Scottsdale, AZ 85254.

― Player is killed, but they are resurrected, and the 45 Revolver glow gold (dyao),

this dial corp study is all there was but they also make liquid soap and this does not support a greater need for liquid soap!

Never bought gel in my life. Bar soap 4-eva.

I started using bar soap in the shower recently because I bought a really cute soap holder in the shape of an owl and I've found that given the choice, I now prefer bar soap. It seems more tactile. I used Burt's Bees ginger soap. Also prefer liquid soap for hands.

I went back to soap once I started thinking about how all that shower gel packaging is Bad For The Environment. See also why I gave up on shaving cream.

These days, though, I just use my body's own natural soap.

it seems like you just use way way more soap if it's liquid. thanks for polluting our watersheds and filling our landfills, liquid soap using jerks

I only go through 1-2 bottles a year.

http://www.organicbeautyworld.com.au/zensc/images/chandrika.jpg

been addicted to this stuff since like way back in the 90s

Bars of soap make me smell like Regis Philbin so...

I am not generally loyal to brands. Most brand name products are just commodities with a big marketing budget. But this is good stuff and I will use it until I die:
http://www.kirksnatural.com/wp-content/uploads/FSBar_Original-310x410.jpg

my soap

https://www.drbronner.com/mm5/graphics/00000002/drbronners-organicoils-bar-soap-citrus-orange.jpg

Bee and Flower sandalwood is the bomb. Wish I could find it more easily (tho Im sure if I hit up some azn grocers I'd find it)