A couple of days ago my father and I bought some Irish Springs deodorant soap at a local dollar store. Almost immediately the Irish Springs smell overtook our bathroom. To tell you the truth, I didn’t mind. My father and I don’t do as much cleaning as my mother did when she died about 10 years ago. So actually, the new smell seemed like a bonus to me. The only thing is, I have just noticed, the smell of Irish Springs is taking over our entire house now!
I have nothing against Irish Springs. Wonderful reputable company I am sure. But I recently heard this story in the news of counterfeit toothpaste being sold in dollar stores. These obvious fakes are in fact dangerous.
And as I have said many times on these boards, my father waited to have me late in life. So now he is an elderly gentleman. So I worry about him alot. He is in fact all I have left in this world.
So do any of you think I have anything to worry about safetywise with this unusual soap?
Hm. My understanding (and dim memory) is that Irish Spring soap is very strongly scented. So much so, that it’s been touted as a deer repellent for gardeners. (Hang bars amid your garden plants, not having the gardener shower with it.) I’ve not heard anything about bogus soap; that’s not to say it’s not out there.
I would probably go ahead and shower or bathe with it.
I don’t think of Irish Spring as a particularly pricey brand that would seem unusual in a dollar store. In fact, I remember seeing Irish Spring commercials on TV a few years ago, and I haven’t seen them in a while. SO maybe they’ve declined in profitability? Either way, I don’t think you have to worry. I shop at the dollar store all the time, buying things like soap and shampoo, and I’ve never had a problem.
There was a time, way back when, that all soaps and shampoos seemed to be trying to create the strongest scent possible - Herbal Essence was also a big hit in the day.
I vividly recall hating to go to my early morning classes in college and sit anywhere near the jocks - they all seemed to lather that crap on them by the bucket full during their morning showers. I still remember having to sit next to some huge football player and thought I was going to gag to death before the class finished.
A long time ago (probably 30 years ago) I used Irish Spring once. Later that night I woke up painfully itchy all over. I appeared to have an allergic reaction to the soap. It took me about two days and some antihistamines to recover. I have never used it again.
I am another Irish Spring fan; I love the original, I love the blue, I love the light green (which I’m currently using, although not right this second)! I love that smell that permeates all my linens.
Fooey, I say to ye haters!
I’m also a chick who hates those foo-foo body washes. On the occasion I’ve had to use one of those, I feel like I have a film all over my body & end up super itchy. The only soaps I feel clean after using are Irish Spring and Ivory.
“Manly, yes – but I like it, too!” No, I really do. Eight bars for three bucks, it works, it doesn’t make me itch, and it reminds me of being a kid since my mom evidently was as thrifty as I am. I use the Micro-Clean version, or whatever the heck that particular flavour is called.
Hey Jim B, no disrespect to you and your dad but you mentioned that things aren’t quite as clean as they were when your mom was alive. I wonder if maybe the novelty of a cleaning product with a scent this strong is something you’re unaccustomed to and that’s why it seems so overpowering. As an analogy, I prefer to use unscented deodorant and when I ended up with one that had a “fresh” scent, that’s all I could smell all day long. And I mean ALL freaking day. I guess it was better than smelling armpits but everyone knows that you don’t smell your own pits until it’s too late.
My grandmother found Irish Spring far too strongly-scented to shower with too, but she did like the fragrance, so for as far back as I can remember, she kept an open bar on the back of the toilet tank as an air freshener. (She’d replace it every six months or so.) When I first learned to crochet, I made a pretty little “cozy” for it, so it looked more like a decorative sachet and less like, yanno, an open bar of soap.
To its credit, it lasted AGES longer than the Renuzit thingies.
The TV commercials are back. Their new slogan: “There’s something about the freshness of Ireland that brings out the lasses”. Yes, the freshness of Ireland. It brings lasses out.
