Some people prefer bars of soap to liquid soap

Zippie84

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

Solid soap

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

Kevin McCloud

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

The Backwards Man

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ninap

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...

riffmongous

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

Jaysus, what was I thinking.

Solid soap.

cork guitar player

Joke....


Edit, thats horrible and Im drunk, lol.

Karl Stein

Shower of bastards..

The Backwards Man

Karl Stein wrote: »

Shower of DIRTY bastards..

FYP!:pac:

Zippie84

Solid soap

Karl Stein wrote: »

Shower of bastards..

Don't you mean barstars?

Baby Jane

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

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I use Swarfega when I'm dirty

For external use only.

Zippie84

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

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

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

Zippie84

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

Carbolic soap and a wire brush

riffmongous

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

Kevin McCloud

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

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

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

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

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

Karl Stein

Ye can't wash away the feeling of shame lads.

Ye're only fooling yerselves

mickstupp

Liquid soap always makes my hands feel really greasy, feel like I've to wash them all over again if liquid soap gets near them.

Proper bar of soap makes me feel I've actually cleaned my hands.

Annasopra

Ruu wrote: »

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

I stock all the free toiletries everytime I go to a hotel

Duggy747

I lick myself like a cat to keep myself spit-fresh.


Times are tough.

biko

Why is the poll public? What's your angle OP?

StewartGriffin

Not ANOTHER Gay thread. :mad:

vienne86

Liquid soap in the wash hand basin, but only to avoid the slimey puddle, but a bar of soap in the shower for me.

Mesrine65

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Poll needs more Swarfega

+1

LDN_Irish

That's not a soap article! This is a soap article:

ww.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2048496/Shower-gel-better-soap-It-just-wont-wash.html

Look at the feckin size of the article this DM prick managed to write on soap.

Can't post links so add a W at the beginning.

Solid soap

I thought it was only the over 50's who still use bar soap, out of habit.

Liquid soap at the sink, Fenjal in the shower, with a nice big loofah to get at the awkward bit between the shoulderblades.

Ben D Bus

Solid soap

ProudDUB wrote: »

Got some lovely L'Occitane and Jo Malone hand soaps over the Chrimbo

L'Occitane Verbena liquid soap. Smells like barley sugar. Mnyom Mnyom.

Baron Kurtz

Soap can get too gunky at the base of it which is vile. Far too precious, is soap, what with the cleaning of the thing that's meant to clean.

Solid soap

Satsuma shower gel from The Body Shop is the best scent ever in the morning. I think the smell of the shower gel is almost the best thing about having a shower.

Bar soaps just don't have the same impact on the senses.

yeppydeppy

Liquid soap / shower gel is for bandwagoners who don't mind wasting half the bottle of ****é straight down the outlet. I'm sure it must have been invented for this reason alone. At least when you see soap suds spinning down the outlet you know they've done the job intended.

uch

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I use Swarfega when I'm dirty,
Poll needs more Swarfega

I hope you don't wash yer hole with it, gritty arse isn't very comfortable

Rosie Rant

Solid soap

I hate bars of soap. I blame my dad. He always turns bars of soap into dirt encrusted, black and oily, nasty germ infested globs of slime. He squeezes the sh*t out of the soap, leaving the filth from under his fingernails embedded under the surface. Liquid soap is so much better!

Ben D Bus

Solid soap

I also have some Molton Brown stuff at home somehow. Can't remember how I got it but I can't use it 'cos I end up smelling like the jacks in BTs

ALiasEX

Duggy747 wrote: »

I lick myself like a cat to keep myself spit-fresh.


Times are tough.

I'm not doing so bad. My cat cleans me when she is finished cleaning herself.

Crock Rock

I prefer bars of soap.

Much cheaper. You can get several bars for a couple of Euro and a single bar'll last several showers.

It's better for the environment. Little or no plastic waste.

SEPT 23 1989

a five year old thread about soap