Poor quality soap

[lornemalvo]

Trivial question, but has anyone else noticed how poor the quality of hand soap has become? Not that long ago, you could use hand soap until it was down to a small nubbin but nowadays, it seems that after a little use, it cracks all over the place and turns black. Even what used to be decent brands like Imperial Leather.

[Wacky Racer]

You mean soap of colour.

[Bonefish Blues]

Yes. Simple used to be excellent. Isn't, and is smaller to boot.

[bigpriest]

They've probably removed the carcinogenic ingredients that used to prevent mould from growing

[vaderface]

bigpriest said:

They've probably removed the carcinogenic ingredients that used to prevent mould from growing

No, still contains them

[Colonel Cupcake]

I use Imperial Leather and I haven't noticed it cracking and turning black.

With all due respect, perhaps you are not using it often enough.

[Master Of Puppets]

Emmerdale.

[lornemalvo]

Colonel Cupcake said:

I use Imperial Leather and I haven't noticed it cracking and turning black.

With all due respect, perhaps you are not using it often enough.

With all due respect?

[Colonel Cupcake]

lornemalvo said:

Colonel Cupcake said:

I use Imperial Leather and I haven't noticed it cracking and turning black.

With all due respect, perhaps you are not using it often enough.

With all due respect?

Of course. I use my Imperial Leather twice a week, which is hardly excessive, I think. Many people will use it much more regularly.

Looking at the other bars of soap used by other members of the Cupcake barracks, all are smooth, uncracked and not black. One is a bar of Simple soap and I don't know what the other brand is.

Maybe you have just been unlucky?

[the-norseman]

Not used a bar of soap for about 10 years, we have them pump bottles.

[crankedup5]

We use Palmolive and now find that half way down the bar the lathering seems to disappear.
Now using liquid soap much more.

[Stella Tortoise]

I’ve no problems with either Roger and Gallet or Mysore sandalwood soaps.

[Sterillium]

We have random flavoured stuff from this place a few miles along the coast from us: www.theclovellysoapcompany.com

Lasts a long time and some of them smell fantastic.

[stogbandard]

For me the key issue related to hand washing isn’t about soap, it’s hand dryers. Use one in the loos of a pub, restaurant, store, service etc, it’s become a lottery of finding one that works and then one that actually dries your hands. They’ve become over designed with style over substance. It’s not untypical to have half dried hands and add to the growing puddle of festering water on the floor under the hand dryer.

Years ago Warner Howard dryers were everywhere blowing strong piping hot air - dry hands, brilliant. I’d say that was the zenith of peak hand dryer and it’s declined ever since.

This deserves a thread on its own.

[Bonefish Blues]

Pet hate of mine, too. Looking at you Dyson...

[CoupeKid]

Dysons are sign you are actually going to get dry hands.

All other types of hand dryer are like being breathed on by a consumptive kitten.

[Biker's Nemesis]

[ChocolateFrog]

Not just regular soap. Got a bottle of Radox shower gel.

I swear there's not a single sud in the whole bottle.

[handpaper]

stogbandard said:

For me the key issue related to hand washing isn’t about soap, it’s hand dryers. Use one in the loos of a pub, restaurant, store, service etc, it’s become a lottery of finding one that works and then one that actually dries your hands. They’ve become over designed with style over substance. It’s not untypical to have half dried hands and add to the growing puddle of festering water on the floor under the hand dryer.

Years ago Warner Howard dryers were everywhere blowing strong piping hot air - dry hands, brilliant. I’d say that was the zenith of peak hand dryer and it’s declined ever since.

This deserves a thread on its own.

Can't remember the brand, but there's Dyson-styled one that starts a 15-second countdown when you put your hands in. After that has run down (and your hands are, of course, still wet), it runs while displaying an error message for a further ten seconds, then shuts down.

Apparently our hands are just too wet for the poor thing.

[W201_190e]

I haven’t seen, let alone used a “bar” of soap in 10 plus years, I thought everyone moved onto the pump liquid bottles years ago!