Are you bar of soap person or a fru-fru body wash person?

Trish said:
I like the organic soaps containing essential oils and things like geranium, lavendar, wild rose etc but, I also like Wrights Coal Tar soap which is cheap, has a lovely clean smell and contains natural oils (it's vegan friendly too). I am one of those people who scour the New Year sales for discounted hair, skin, bath, shower products which would normally cost a lot more. :)
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I do know the Coal Tar soap, but it's a little..... antiseptic smelling for me.
 

@VaughanJB ..did you mean Irish Spring ?... or maybe Shield ? :D
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Trish said:
I like the organic soaps containing essential oils and things like geranium, lavendar, wild rose etc but, I also like Wrights Coal Tar soap which is cheap, has a lovely clean smell and contains natural oils (it's vegan friendly too). I am one of those people who scour the New Year sales for discounted hair, skin, bath, shower products which would normally cost a lot more. :)
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I buy all those lovely perfume soaps as you can see by my picture above.. but I get them in TKMaxx so they cost more than buying in the supermarket.. I also love loccitaine soaps but unless there's a sale on, I wait for them as gifts..
 

Robb.hisself said:
My grandmother's mother (great grandmother) made her own as well. That was the later half of the 19th century. She lived in a small rural town. In those days women's work was really work and 'homemaker' really made a home. My grandmother did much as she. Food on the table each day was taken from its 'natural' state and made edible. Killed the chicken, gutted it, plucked it, roasted it. Dug up the vegetables; washed and cut them, then cooked them. Wash day was a real wash day and all day, too. I really respect women for all they did to make a family a family. But, I wonder if little girls today have any clue.
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Off topic, but want to respond :)

As kids, living in rural Alberta with well water (no running water), I recall my sisters having to catch and kill chickens. Wash day, mother used the galvanized tub, and had to boil well-water with the old scrubbing board and bar soap.

Believe me .. I appreciate all the modern conveniences of today.
 
Pinky said:
Off topic, but want to respond :)

As kids, living in rural Alberta with well water (no running water), I recall my sisters having to catch and kill chickens. Wash day, mother used the galvanized tub, and had to boil well-water with the old scrubbing board and bar soap.

Believe me .. I appreciate all the modern conveniences of today.
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My mother too had to wash using a scrubbing board... and bar soap..sunlight ..I seem to remember. Then she had a wringer attached to the sink, which either she or I would turn to get the clothes through... hard hard work... until she eventually got a Single tub washing machine
 
hollydolly said:
My mother too had to wash using a scrubbing board... and bar soap..sunlight ..I seem to remember. Then she had a wringer attached to the sink, which either she or I would turn to get the clothes through... hard hard work... until she eventually got a Single tub washing machine
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I remember the wringer. We also had a potato peeler. It was basically some sand paper inside a plastic enclosure. It was powered by water. You'd attach the device to the cold tap, and then turn on the water. The water would power the tumbler, and since it was sandpaper, would peel the potatoes.

Now I just eat them with the skin on!
 
VaughanJB said:
I remember the wringer. We also had a potato peeler. It was basically some sand paper inside a plastic enclosure. It was powered by water. You'd attach the device to the cold tap, and then turn on the water. The water would power the tumbler, and since it was sandpaper, would peel the potatoes.

Now I just eat them with the skin on!
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potato peeler.. ?.. you were posh... :D yes I also eat spuds with the skin on....

Dya remember the high tech chip maker?..
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hollydolly said:
potato peeler.. ?.. you were posh... :D yes I also eat spuds with the skin on....

Dya remember the high tech chip maker?..
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I don't. However, our family always had a saucepan full of oil on the stove, for chips etc. Thinking of that today is scary. Given I grew up in a family of smokers - as a non-smoker - and the food choices, how did I make it this far? I saw a thread recently about eating Lamb Liver. We used to eat liver, it was delicious with bacon. But today? I couldn't eat it.
 
VaughanJB said:
I don't. However, our family always had a saucepan full of oil on the stove, for chips etc. Thinking of that today is scary. Given I grew up in a family of smokers - as a non-smoker - and the food choices, how did I make it this far? I saw a thread recently about eating Lamb Liver. We used to eat liver, it was delicious with bacon. But today? I couldn't eat it.
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we never had a pan full of oil on the stove but my friends families did, and their houses always stunk of old fat.. and cigarettes.... I can smell it now when I think of it..

Our house was also a smokers house..almost everyone's was then..

I enjoy lambs liver occasionally, I still cook it, chopped up with chopped bacon or lardons and put it into Mac & cheese...

How did we go from soap to mac & cheese ?:D

Just having a cuppa tea, before I venture out in the rain...
 
hollydolly said:
@VaughanJB ..did you mean Irish Spring ?... or maybe Shield ? :D
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A bit of a tangent, I suppose... But around here people have been trying Irish Spring soap to repel skunks and raccoons from their gardens. It's one of those "I heard it through the grapevine" ideas. The method is cutting bars into, say, 2x2-inch pieces and lashing these onto the top of short stakes, scattered around in an area where the animal is known to have been disturbing the soil.
 
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I'm glad I use Dial. I wish everybody did. It kills germs and that's all I'm in there for.

I can perfume up afterward with my lotions and colognes.

Body wash gives me the itch. It's detergent! That's why your shower doesn't get soap scum, but our bodies don't need the same thing our greasy skillets need, and we can wipe down our shower after to prevent scum.
 
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JBR said:
A bit of a tangent, I suppose... But around here people have been trying Irish Spring soap to repel skunks and raccoons from their gardens. It's one of those "I heard it through the grapevine" ideas. The method is cutting bars into, say, 2x2-inch pieces and lashing these onto the top of short stakes, scattered around in an area where the animal is known to have been disturbing the soil.
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My wife uses Irish Spring ... around her holly plants. A half bar tucked in around the base of each plant. Since she started that, the deer haven't munched on the hollies at all. :D

My dermatologist swears by Dove Men+Care body wash. I figure his advice is costing me enough that I should probably listen to him.
 
C50 said:
Typically I use Irish Spring bar soap, some soaps bother my skin but Irish Spring doesn't so I stick with it. About once a year I'll try something else, not like it, go back to Irish Spring.
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It really is the most refreshing and best smelling bar soap I've come across (not counting the fru-fru "girly" bar soaps that are often handmade.) :)
 
For the bar soap, I keep either one of these on the shower ledge or in the soap dish. The soap collects in them. The scrub brush is the one that surgeons scrub up with so can also be used on your nails since it has soap residue. They both are about $1.50. The latter is from a dollar store.

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