L'Occitane woman

[Sazza]

It's weird how she was pushing bars of soap, saying that they were making a huge come back (really?) surely at the moment, sharing a bar of soap to wash your hands is probably not the best idea?

I still think back to when she said (I did mention it here at the time) "this hand cream would be my one item I could take if I were stranded on a desert island" Not water, food or some kind of communication device......just hand cream

To be fair this is something she has been saying for the last year or so due to people trying to avoid using plastic, many are opting back to bars of soap rather than shower gels or liquid soap that is in plastic bottles.

 

[donna255]

It's weird how she was pushing bars of soap, saying that they were making a huge come back (really?) surely at the moment, sharing a bar of soap to wash your hands is probably not the best idea?

I still think back to when she said (I did mention it here at the time) "this hand cream would be my one item I could take if I were stranded on a desert island" Not water, food or some kind of communication device......just hand cream

Why would sharing a bar of soap make you more likely to catch covid19?

Hot water running use the bar of soap and set it down. Liquid soap/handwash do you make sure to sanitize the top of the pump between each person? I very much doubt anyone does, they just hit the pump and get the liquid soap out.

 

[Vienna]

Until fairly recent times bar soap was all there was and whole families shared the same bar. I know we did when I was a kid. I think bar soaps got such a bad press because they can be messy or mushy and leave splodges of wet soap on the soap dish or the sink. Mr V won`t use anything but bar soap even though i also have liquid soap on the sink.
I think in recent times soap became less of a bare essential made just to keep our hands and bodies clean and more of a cosmetic therefore encouraging us to buy it and the manufacturers to make it prettier, smell nicer and to add things like skin softeners such as shea.
In the past the only liquid soap I ever came across was the harsh medically smelling stuff they put on the walls in work places or public loos.
My youngest grand daughter who`se 10 had terrible sore hands before her school shut down because at the onset of Covid 19 the teachers were telling pupils to wash their hands hourly and to sing happy birthday twice. Her poor little hands were raw from the harsh liquid soap and her Mum had to treat them with antiseptic cream.
I remember my Dad who was born in 1914 and who lived in the Liverpool slums until he went to Canada as a Barnardos boy at 12 saying his Mother used to send him to another household in the same tenement building to ask could she have a borrow of their soap and when his baby sister cried she used to send him to ask could they have a borrow of their baby`s dummy too. No way would i ever want anybody to return to those days but I do think at times we`ve become paranoid about germs and conditioned to thinking there always has to be a better way/product/result from buying yet more cosmetic or cleaning items.
Think back to our childhoods and our Mothers kept us and their houses spotless with bar soap, soap flakes, bleach , soda crystals and little else.

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

Growing up I never encountered a single person who had an allergy now everyone has a couple.

i don’t know if this is because we are cosseted and don't build up any immunity or if it is because there are so many chemicals on everything. A bit of both I suspect. Although I have had ultra sensitive skin on my face only I never had any other problems until neighbours started installing wood burners and now I find it much more difficult to breath.

 

[boffy]

cracked sore dry skin from using alcohol ridden gel must be worse than using a quality liquid or bar soap. cracked skin cannot protect your body and thats what skin is there to do keep out germs

 

[Brissles]

We used nothing but Coal Tar soap at home, and then on came that fancy advert getting my Mum in a right old tiz....... "you will look a little lovelier each day with fabulous pink Camay" . So that was the Friday night bath treat, using Camay !

you'll look a little lovelier each day with - Search Videos

www.bing.com

 

[donna255]

Growing up I never encountered a single person who had an allergy now everyone has a couple.

i don’t know if this is because we are cosseted and don't build up any immunity or if it is because there are so many chemicals on everything. A bit of both I suspect. Although I have had ultra sensitive skin on my face only I never had any other problems until neighbours started installing wood burners and now I find it much more difficult to breath.

A friend has mentioned this to me a few times, now she is 7 years old than me but we seemed to share the same sort of childhood. Out running around playing in the dirt making mud pies. Dropped a sweet or gum on the street you just picked it up and continued eating. None of this endless washing and worrying about how clean your food was as many did not have fridges meat was bought and just put in the cupboard. A pot of stew or soup was just leave in the pot on the cooker and used for a few days. You had a bath once a week your hair was washed once a week. Never heard of anyone having food allergies

 

[boffy]

People cooked from fresh when I was growing up not so much re packed factory made ingredients. The additives for colour, flavour enhancement and preservatives are what most people are allergic to

 

[maymorganlondon]

cracked sore dry skin from using alcohol ridden gel must be worse than using a quality liquid or bar soap. cracked skin cannot protect your body and thats what skin is there to do keep out germs

I don't use a hand gel if I can avoid it. Normally, I alternate between a bar soap, an anti-bac liquid soap and another liquid soap. The anti-bac one is supposedly for sensitive skin, but strips my skin completely. I cannot use it all the time as a result. We don't need it constantly. My hands need a soapy lather to break down the fatty envelope around C-19 with 20 seconds of handwashing, and I'd rather have comfortable hands from my bar soap 90% of the time.

 

[catzrcool]

I haven't bought L'Occitane since they moved into the Chinese market.

 

[boffy]

L'occitane is not as good as it was very watered down!

 

[donna255]

As I have said many times I get my bar soap from the Soap Man who comes over to the Xmas Market in Belfast each year. He lives in France and brings vegetal soap made locally in France the lather is amazing and great for shaving your legs and underarms as it is so rich almost like a mousse. I usually go for goat's or asses milk ones.

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

As I have said many times I get my bar soap from the Soap Man who comes over to the Xmas Market in Belfast each year. He lives in France and brings vegetal soap made locally in France the lather is amazing and great for shaving your legs and underarms as it is so rich almost like a mousse. I usually go for goat's or asses milk ones.

If we ever get back to normality I might give him a go if he’s at Belfast in2020

 

[boffy]

Good bars of soap last an age the small Marseilles soaps last me months from L'occitane I reckon the large shea bricks will last me a year of regular use that's me living alone though!

 

[Toril]

I bought a set of 8 L’occitane soaps a few years ago. I gave six of them away because they did go “slimy” and left gunge on the soap dish.

I’ve used liquid soap and liquid shower gel every since.

 

[shopperholic]

I bought a set of 8 L’occitane soaps a few years ago. I gave six of them away because they did go “slimy” and left gunge on the soap dish.

I’ve used liquid soap and liquid shower gel every since.

I bought some years ago, apparently they last a while Alexis said because they’re “triple milled“, one bar was gone in well under two weeks and there was only me and the husband using it. We only use liquid soap since then, not L’Occitane. There’s a nice little place I’ve used before and the prices are great. https://thesomersettoiletryco.co.uk/

 

[Letz-be-avenue]

I find the big l'occitane soap bars last me ages, but I was not over impressed with the last tsv , whilst they are still a good consistency imo, there is no smell of rosemary, they just seem to smell pleasant but not of a particular scent, I note some of the reviews are bad,saying they are watered down and no scent at all, i won't be buying their liquid soaps again, another brand where the quality seems to have gone down hill

 

[maymorganlondon]

I'm using a L'Occitane bonne mere soap and it's the soap which doesn't dry my hands and lathers beautifully. It's been on the go since the start of April, and I'm a real Lady Macbeth with my handwashing.

I have plenty of soap in my stash, including several bars of Knight's castile.

We all have different experiences with soaps, and mine with Loccy bars are good. I don't touch their liquid soaps, just get Bayliss & Harding or generic anti-bac ones.

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

I’ve just been reading about a refillable stick deodorant. Apparently you buy a pack consisting of an aluminium case and 3 refills (look like soap bars). I know nothing about the company but thought it might be of interest to those who are trying to cut down on packaging.
The company is GoWild sorry I can’t do links but it it is www.wearwild.com

 

[Brissles]

The best bar soap I've ever used I bought in TKMaxx, and it was Bliss Peppermint Scrub Bar. The mint was so strong it almost blew your face off, literally made you breathless ! and the scrub really delivered. Its an American brand, and hard to get, so I'm down to my last 'slither', sob !