I don’t have any severe reactions but various scented and/or deodorant soaps will irritate my skin so I just stick to Ivory.
Huh. My sister worked in a hospital for over 30 years, and she always bitched when “Jay-Co” was coming. I’ll have to ask her if she saw the same thing with the soap.
They’d also hide the mental health staff (including me) so we wouldn’t give awkward answers to questions. Usually stick us in an all-day training and have MH nurses cover the unit.
Doesn’t surprise me. I’d hear her grumbling over all the things they had to do to prepare.
Yeah, it’s terrible to have to clean, organize, and have everything up to code 
Here’s what I use.
Stopped using bar soap ages ago. Never looked back.
No complaints from me! I just think it was stressful so they were venting mostly.
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One wonders if they just add scent to bottles of dishwashing detergent. I also like bar soap. More tactile experience plus the syrup soap seems to wash off before I can apply to the bod. A bar feels solid and I can also clean my fingernails by scraping off the soap, and pushing out the small slivers from under the nails. I think I am just getting old and like the nostalgia of Ivory or Dove.
Liquid soap was great for the public restrooms we used on our tour of Guatemala in 2007. It was always in there, even at this one grody gas station.
It’s funny that I think the last time I used bar soap was when I was in a cheap hotel that only provided soap and nothing else. Think Days Inn or something along that line, don’t remember the specific brand as it was just a one night stay before moving over to the host hotel the next morning.
At home, I think since about 18 I’ve been in the body wash and bath sponge camp and haven’t looked back
Nah. Very different feel in use.
Also, anything called “gel” is intended for hair as well; “body wash” isn’t.
Weird. One of those topics that has never occurred to me as being a thing. I just assumed most people had sensibly moved on from the inferior product that is bar soap 
. I didn’t even like bars much as a kid and probably haven’t used one in thirty years. Give me mandarin orange-scented foaming soap any day.
Like gray-colored cars I guess this is just one more area where I am helping drive popular demand away from the beloved pleasures of yesteryear. Ah, well - I still read physical newspapers and they will die someday soon and then I will get my elderly comeuppance .
If one is trying to use liquid soap sans scrunchie, it’s no surprise to me they are disappointed with its use.
The scrunchie makes all the difference.
Is there some sort of law or custom where you live against washing washcloths when you wash your clothes?
Besides, washcloths are small enough that they dry sufficiently quickly to avoid mold and mildew.
I wash towels and therefore washcloths in hot water. I wash my clothes in cold water. I’m not doing a load of a single washcloth in hot.
Nonsense.
I buy Ivory soap in the multipacks. Any drugstore will have them.
Most handmade soaps will melt away much faster than either cheap Ivory or expensive ‘milled’ soap’.
I like the fact that Ivory has stuck with the same mysterious yet meaningless slogan since 1895. I am ever-filled with curiosity about that impure 1%.
Yeah, this. I first started using liquid soap and a scrunchy about 25 years ago. An old lady at the gym recommended it, and I loved it. Haven’t used bar soap for showering since.
When we had an invasion of mice, they ate most of our bar soap. Hey, fat’s fat. My daughter’s long ago pet rat ate a tube of vaseline. Including most of the plastic.
I like liquid soap just fine but prefer bar soap in the shower for the simple reason that it’s cheaper. I can pay ten dollars and get enough bar soap for a hundred showers. The “bath gel” or whatever they call it doesn’t last anywhere near as long, even using a scrunchie; I haven’t done a study of this or anything, but it’s gotta be five to ten times more expensive per clean. That is, I suspect, precisely why they sell it.
The liquid stuff I use in the kitchen doesn’t cost much simply because it’s designed to foam on use, so you’re really using very little.