Did we need this much soap before "Soap Operas" came along?

*stands up tall and proud*

I don't use soap. It's gross.

Or, more accurately, I *very rarely* use soap. I will use it on visible filth, and I use shampoo every 3 or 4 days and soap in my laundry and for dishes, but I do not otherwise use soap on my body. It's nasty.

dobbs, you've never used satsuma soap from Body Shop--out of this world wonderful. /end commercial
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my soaps:
dishwashing liquid
laundry detergent
bar soap for shower
shampoo/conditioner (but not every day)

and then various spray cleaners/bleach for tile and stuff.

Damn. Now I want to go get some satsuma soap. It's a sickness, I tell you.

Can I get the slight smell out of a fur coat until I can get it to a place to be cleaned.Old house smell.?

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"Can I get the slight smell out of a fur coat until I can get it to a place to be cleaned." Put it in a box, plastic container, plastic bag or small closet with a couple of containers of baking soda. If you have room a jar with some vinegar is helpful.

Sperm may find their way into the vaginal canal even if semen were only to get onto the vulva.

Oh yes. Gundy is my new fave.

i shower two or three times per week, using only dr. bronner's...

i wash my hands constantly at my two restaurant jobs though, and now i have chemical burns on my hands....despite compulsive lotioning...

I had a big schpiel written up about why we need different kinds of soap, but I just can't post it without dying a little bit. inside.

Oh, are we on about soap? Because I have a house bursting with the stuff.

You see, my grandmother is approaching the century mark. So people who know her get her what she likes (crosswords, anything red, good brisk novels) and those who don't get her soap. Soap por le bain, soap in big fancy soupcons, soap le fancy pantse, and when I come to see her she piles a shopping bag full of it for me. We're pretty merry regifters.

But for me, oh my, I love to smell like this. Oh yum. Not the fanciest stuff in the world, but I find it intoxicating, especially paired with the lotion.

(As for cleaning stuff rather than self, I'm more of a vinegar gal. Cheap, effective, natural, tra la la.)

that's close to mine, melis. (except the lemongrass part)

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I spent a lot of Christmas money on this stuff. It can be hard to find in the US but you can order on-line. Their stuff smells great. Not at all cloying.

You may find the history More Work for Mother of interest.

Don't forget your toothpaste!

True, true.

My worst soap experience was when I bought "green tea" scented dish soap (why, oh why? it was on sale). It smelled like vomit and was the same color as our olive oil, which was distracting and disgusting.

Soap inventory:

Laundry soap.
Liquid dish soap - like Dawn.
Basic body/face soap.
Soap-like puck in mug for shaving lather.

Done. Yay.

loquacious, are you bald?

better than BS's satsuma soap is their vanilla shower gel. omgyum.

We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail.
Hand sanitiser, while not technically a soap is my friend.

But in the spirit of the season: LifeBuoy!

Oh #%&%*@$!!!!

Bald? No. Oh.

And shampoo + conditioner. "Generic" Suave "Nexxus Humectrant formula" stuff. It's washed every 2-7 days, depending. It's always so nice the 2nd or 3rd day after a wash. I don't use the conditioner every time, niether.

Though, when I had a shaved head it was just water or occasionally soap.

hmpf. Now I have to wonder what other "hidden soaps" you may be concealing. ;)

The generic Suave "Humectant" is the greatest thing. Also, Suave cocoa and shea butter body wash.

The best thing about being bald is no washing of hair.

Surely the Brando impersonations in the mirror must run a close second?

Soap is made from ashes and lye. I do not like ashes and lye. I don't use soap or shampoo. Sorry to people like dejah420 who make soap.

Yes I am very clean and I smell really good and I have fabulous hair.

I do use laundry detergent, because I'm too lazy to go outside and scrub my clothes over a rock ;)

Dr. Bronners, Dilute, Dilute. Or Chinatown bee and flower brand sandalwood soap, but I suspect it is made by the lowest bidder, smells good though. Whatever shampoo my lady or my step-daughter are using, sometimes I smell like a watermelon or a serious girl which is cool.

I probably only shampoo once a week or so (I wash my hair with water daily) because I have very fine hair and it blows all over the place and I look like Prince Valiant (I should probably get a haircut, I'm scared of haircuts, so I am always bald or with long shaggy viking hair).


You know the thing with the hand soap and the bathroom/house cleaning stuff. Normally I am quick rinse with the handsoap kinda guy and not over scared of germs, I would probably make do with vinegar and whatever otherwise. When you have a kid in the house though, you get a little paranoid, we have two cats, there is crud everywhere, people are always coughing in my face. I try to minimally use house cleaning products.


Surely the Brando impersonations in the mirror must run a close second?

I used to shave my head all the time (you know suede head, lowest setting on the clippers) one time the clippers broke and my friend had to finish it with a bic. I did brando and lex luthor and yul brenner all the time. I was so annoying, even to myself.


You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.

My soap: dish soap & hand soap. I clean with Comet and vinegar (and am convinced that the more cleaning stuff people have, the worse they are at cleaning, as observed in many roommates).

I don't shampoo my hair, because it's fine & curly, though I do condition it so I can comb out the tangles. And I use oatmeal instead of soap in the bath, which weirds people out, but my skin is so dry that soap really upsets it.

I don't have laundry soap because I don't do my own laundry.

See, you can free yourselves from soap.

(and am convinced that the more cleaning stuff people have, the worse they are at cleaning, as observed in many roommates)

It's kinda sad the amount of time it took me to convince my husband that you didn't have to buy separate cleaning products for different rooms of the house ("but this one says bathroom on it! And this one: kitchen!")

So I support your theory.

I like soaps and girly shower and bath products, but for smelling like peaches rather than cleanliness. I shampoo my hair every day though, because otherwise I break out and become one giant zit.

Household-wise: ajax and vinegar and lots of scrubbing.

I would like to take a moment here to slam anti-bacterial soaps for everyday use. The active ingredient, triclosan, is being found in groundwater and breast milk and degrades into dioxin when exposed to sunlight. Though it was originally thought to be a general biocide, recent research is showing it to be a specific biocide- meaning we may be culturing bacteria in the environment that are resistant to it.

Just don't tell me anything bad about Bon Ami- I don't want to give up the litttle chicks....

A bucket of rainwater and a box of borax is all I need!

No, okay, glycerin and /or vegetable oil based bath soap, dial hand soap, seventh generation dish soap, and electrosol for the dishwasher. Th' wife makes the laundry detergents and household cleaners using a basic set of ingredients (vinegar, washing soda, baking soda, essential oils, etc.) and they work a treat.

And I must have Aura brand Rosemary Mint shampoo and rinse for my locks, my lovely laddy locks, my locks my locks my locks.

Yes, antibacterial soap is Satan's soap.

I use this, a heavenly soap that is "an earthy and green combination of palm, cyclamen, sweet fig, moss, and clove set in a base of woody sandalwood."

Guarenteed to make anyone whuffle you. Smells good on all genders.

Also, it's really weird to buy shampoo after ten years of having a suede head.

I've hated antibacterial soap simply because it's enormously counterproductive in the long run. I think people don't realize how quickly bacteria evolve. For example, just in a single case of you're being infected with something there can be significant genetic divergences that are selected for and against.