Liquid soap - WTFF??

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Liquid soap - WTF????????

why the fuck does this shit exist? why does everyone now seem to have a silly bottle with a squity bit in their bathrooms?! man, i am sick of this shit! whats wrong with a bar of soap? is there really any clear advantage in have brightly coloured, malodorous gunk in a bottle? Like, you dont even get to use it all, the last bit is inaccesible?! aaaaaaaaaarrrrghh

so, share your liquid soap stories here, and explain why you think it deserves to live.

(ps i am experiencing move-into-new-house-trauam, whereby i find out all the weirtd shit my new housemate does in her life, eg BREAD IN FRIDGE OMG LOLLOLOL, hence the anger)

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Because anybody that may use your bathroom will invariably wash their dirty hands using said soap. with liquid soap, you get the amount you need without anyone else having to touch it after you've used it.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

using a bar of soap always makes me feel like i'm rubbing my hands on someone else's shit from the previous use.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

relax dude

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

And you know that the liquid soap hasn't recently been used on someone's ass!

xxxxxpost

― Huk-L, Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Hot tip : when liquid soap comes to its last legs and the sqirty bit doesn't reach down enough to collect the bottom bit - open the cap and mix in a bit of water. you'd get slightly less concentrated soap, but it still works!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

liquid soap is neater, cleaner. plus i enjoy having a large bottle of neon red goop in my kitchen.

― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

And if you drop it you don't get, ahem, "bathroom hairs" stuck to it.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

It is a bar of soap. Exactly how dirty is it going to get?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

huk-l do you regularly stick liquid soap up people's asses?????

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

the not slipping everywhere thing is a plus for liquid soap, too.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

and my gf will yell at me if i leave the soapdish with water in it, something i do not understand. i was like 'am i supposed to dry the bar of soap when i am done with it?"

― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

soap dries my hands out something rotten!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

you should stick it up her ass xpost

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Antibacterial soap will kill you by not allowing your body to fight bacteria - C/D? (T/F?)

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Kephm - I think the problem is that you're letting too much water drip into the soap dish, causing the soap to go all manky. Your girlfriend is wise.

Bread in the fridge is another ridiculous one. Ditto ketchup in the fridge.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to know someon who put crisps in the fridge...

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Bread in the fridge controls humidity though, so it doesn't go moldy as fast.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

What's wrong with bread in the fridge? have you never had an invasion by mice what can get into any breadbin?

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Dr. Bronner's organic liquid soaps are very awesome, have strong powerful clean odor. I take camping with me for when I wash my body in streams and creeks.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah bread in fridge is totally classic, otherwise they go off in 3 days!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i now imagine matt's household to be full of furry bread and furry bars of soap

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

kinda cute!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

sinker was a great one for crisps in the fridge. tried it once but found no difference.

i keep bread in fridge for anti-mould / freshness purposes. and because otherwise they'd be even less in my fridge than there currently is which would be depressing. ketchup too.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

matt dc, yeah i know that's the problem, but actually i think i just wash my hands way too much. she is a bread and soap nazi.

― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Doesn't ketchup say "refridgerate after opening" on the label? I don't really use it much, but it seems like the right thing to do.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Plus, bread-in-fridge encourages toasting-of-said-bread for eating/sammich purposes, which almost always = THE YUMMY.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

bread in the fridge i can live with. i used to put peanut butter in the fridge but have been reprogrammed

― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Peanut butter in the fridge makes it so hard you can't get your knife in.

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I put my bread in the fridge because it lasts longer, and goes stale (but still toastable) rather than mouldy. I hate when people don't keep their mustard in the fridge and it goes brown, but my ketchup lives in the cupboard.

But back to the subject. Liquid soap means that friends/grubby workmen know what it is and use it, rather than reaching for my expensive facial cleansing bar. To go into the bathroom and find a whole band plus their extra guitarist have rubbed my expensive facial cleansing bar all over themselves in my shower and reduced it to half the size and garnished it with hairs is VERY annoying.

Don't get me started on boyfriends who leave the soap dish swimming in water.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Ditto ketchup in the fridge.

No! Ketchup is MEANT to go in the fridge! Read the label!

xpost, thanks dave

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Crisps in the fridge is totally wrong, they lose their crispness!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Every single cafe in London can't be wrong!

I'm not even going to speculate on why Madchen has had an entire band taking a shower together in her bathroom.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Ketchup in the cupboard, salad cream in the fridge.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i refridgerate ketchup. it seems wise to me. same with eggs - i don't understand the room temperature eggs thing you people do here in the UK. i guess 'room temperature' in most homes is cold enough.

i don't like liquid soap. i prefer a nice bar of pears in the bathroom - it seems more civilised to me. liquid soap in those dispensers, i dunno, feels like a cheap cop-out.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i am still in two minds about EGGS in the fridge. but i've tried it a few times and they stay good for so much longer.. so maybe i should do it.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

plus the bar you have for showering purposes should be in a seperate area from the bar by the sink for hand-washing purposes! TWO BARS, PEOPLE!

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

angel in the garden, whore in the bedroom, and your mother in the wardrobe

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

two bars are always better than one

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Ketchup in the cupboard, salad cream in THE MANGY PIT OF HELL to which it belongs.

Liquid soap is for HANDWASHING ONLY. If soap is going to be used on any other bits it should be a BAR, hence liquid soap by kitchen sink, yes, liquid soap in BATHROOM, no.

― Starry (hello chickens), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Bread in the fridge incidentally is INSANE.

― Starry (hello chickens), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

you don't wash your hands in the bathroom?!??!?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

(the mangy pit of hell = the back of the fridge, where it never gets touched, I must confess)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

(starry sarah is making very good sense here, I must confess)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i have liquid soap in the kitchen, liquid soap in the bathroom for washing hands only & a bar for washing bodies!
ketchup in the cupboard, mayo/salad cream/mustard in the fridge.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Liquid soap = ONLY WHEN YOU ARE WASHING ONLY YOUR HANDS, ONLY!!! In the bathroom you're in a "hands PLUS!" situation so YOU USE SOAP. Gooner!

― Starry (hello chickens), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Liquid soap is for HANDWASHING ONLY. If soap is going to be used on any other bits it should be a BAR

i don't understand the reasoning behind this.

xpost but what about the soap you use for post-poo situations????? or do you use the same one for post-poo and shower??

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

cold bread is disgusting. food like bread, ham etc should be room temperature. cold meat is vile. don't get me started.

as for ketchup in the fridge, that's also lunacy, disgusting condensation. HOWEVER occasionally it cools hot things well.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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Eggs in the fridge = sheer madness. They keep just fine in the cupboard.

Not in the US where federal law requires the washing of eggs before sale, thus removing the membrane that protects them from going over at room temp, thus making them no longer shelf stable, thus requiring refrigeration.

― Jenny, Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

I put nearly everything that would benefit from a controlled temperature/humidity in the fridge because I'm a single dude and regularly leave food around for weeks. Additionally, I have zero bars of soap in my apartment -- it's all liquid.

I'll be expecting an army of people with those rake things and torches outside my place when I come home tonight.

― mh, Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

and my gf will yell at me if i leave the soapdish with water in i

a bit anal, but she's right.

― nathalie, Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

i hate cold jam (and bread), even if it would keep better in the fridge, so i don't do that.

have gone back to soap bars recently as they seem ethically better (less plastic)

― blueski, Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

they use whale fat.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

xpost it's kinda weird to put bread in the fridge in my opinion.

― nathalie, Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

i've come round to bread in the fridge. cupboard or freezer are ideal but sometimes there's no room. i don't eat untoasted bread anyway.

ketchup not in fridge = ewww.

― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

i have sometimes put bread in the fridge when I know it will take me awhile to finish or when I've lived places where I fear kitchen predators. I also put everything else mentioned in the fridge.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

I put nearly everything that would benefit from a controlled temperature/humidity in the fridge because I'm a single dude and regularly leave food around for weeks. Additionally, I have zero bars of soap in my apartment -- it's all liquid.

Exactly. I'd rather not put bread and other things in the fridge, but it's better than throwing out half-used condiments and rotten fruit all the time.

Bar soap sucks.

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

tabasco sauce - fridge or no fridge?

it gets browner outside the fridge but i think this may be a benefit

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

tobasco = no fridge

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

Not in the US where federal law requires the washing of eggs before sale, thus removing the membrane that protects them from going over at room temp, thus making them no longer shelf stable, thus requiring refrigeration.

Oh I see, that explains the whole 'three days' thing.

― braveclub, Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

As for liquid soap and wasteful plastics, I just keep refilling the same dispenser with DILUTE DILUTE Dr. Bronners. Cheap, convenient, and environmentally friendly!

― Jenny, Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

everyone in my family puts bread in the freezer. it makes for some soggy sandwiches. only thing worse - microwaved bread.

i LOVE foaming antibacterial liquid soap. fuck a cake.

― sunny successor, Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

I sometimes freeze unopened bread for later use but I never put it in the fridge when it's open. I rarely eat bread unless I have cheese these days, anyhow.

Eggs go in the fridge too, 'cause we don't use them often enough, otherwise. I sometimes make soft-boiled eggs for b'fast but only with newly bought ones. Otherwise, they're mostly for baking.

The only liquid soap I have is dishwashing liquid in a little glass dispenser on the counter next to the sink. I just don't like liquid soap that much.

Most fruit (berries being the exception) have a bowl on the counter to ripen in along with tomatoes. All other veg in the fridge.

― Michael White, Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

haha i totally forgot about that diagram until now!

― ken c, Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

Actually some baking calls for room-temp eggs in order to get certain effects from other ingredients but I never remember to put them out early! You can apparently nuke an egg VERY CAREFULLY for like 6 seconds or something to warm it up but I've never tried (and I don't remember the exact directions).

― Laurel, Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

I always take eggs out early when cooking.

― Michael White, Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

It blobs out, fattily, in lugs of stewart. Rub it in my friend, smear it. CLean yourself.

― Latham Green, Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

No place to put a bar in the toilet room, plus Dr Bronner's tea tree infused liquid soap is nicely aromatic after a disgusting ken c-styled toilet incident.

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Friday, 3 April 2009 14:56 (sixteen years ago)

thumbs up for liquid soap, but i prefer a bar in the shower

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Friday, 3 April 2009 15:07 (sixteen years ago)

Thus began my love affair with ILX.

― Hard like armour, Friday, 3 April 2009 15:08 (sixteen years ago)

"toilet incident" WTF?!
Anyway, anti-bacterial liquid soap is excellent. OTOH we have a bar of this weird French stuff in the bathroom that smells of sherbet.

― snoball, Friday, 3 April 2009 15:11 (sixteen years ago)

hate bar soap in public restrooms. especially when other peoples hairs stick to 'em.

― light turns red *hardy neanderthal guffaw* (latebloomer), Friday, 3 April 2009 15:52 (sixteen years ago)

i hate bars of soap just in general. Liquid soap is a gift from the Gods.

― Blackout Crew are the Beatles of donk (jim), Friday, 3 April 2009 15:54 (sixteen years ago)

Like the way the skin on your hands feels all tight and filmy after washing with a soap bar :S

― Blackout Crew are the Beatles of donk (jim), Friday, 3 April 2009 15:54 (sixteen years ago)

After years of liquid soap I'm sort of getting back into bars. Some are really really nice. Not like the soaps back then, oh no.

― commons hack spat (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 3 April 2009 16:05 (sixteen years ago)

This is one of the all time great ILE threads.

I still don't get the ketchup-in-fridge thing. Surely you could leave it out in the sun all day and then let it cool down and it wouldn't make much difference?

― Matt DC, Friday, 3 April 2009 16:10 (sixteen years ago)

I'm with NTII - back to bars. They are much cheaper and generate less trash. It's cheaper to buy bar soap even if I buy fancy pants smelly soaps.

― Dan Seals Memorial Nickname (Jenny), Friday, 3 April 2009 16:24 (sixteen years ago)

a lot of the chemicals in anti-bacterial soap do not rapidly breakdown, so they can do some damage when they get into the environment.

― ian, Friday, 3 April 2009 16:43 (sixteen years ago)

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/4184/imageuploadimagen.jpg

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Friday, 3 April 2009 16:49 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.callalillie.com/archives/0104/bacteria-stomachache.jpg

― guys i need to eliminate this business associate and im really nervous (Laurel), Friday, 3 April 2009 16:51 (sixteen years ago)

Helping u out 'cause it's so cute!

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/7425/imageuploadimage.jpg

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Friday, 3 April 2009 16:53 (sixteen years ago)

I think that if all germs were that cute I'd have to surrender in the war on germs.

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Friday, 3 April 2009 16:54 (sixteen years ago)

i like liquid soap, nice bright colours.

― krakow, Friday, 3 April 2009 21:21 (sixteen years ago)

Liquid soap yes
bread in fridge yes

I don't know why I put my ketchup in the fridge, but I don't know where else I would put it. Same for soy sauce, which most certainly does not need refrigeration. Just a convenient place for it.

― pullapartgirl (Jesse), Friday, 3 April 2009 21:25 (sixteen years ago)

Liquid soap in public bathrooms is a good thing, but why would anyone want it at home. Handling a nice slippery good-smelling bar of soap is one of life's little sensual pleasures. Life is TOO FULL OF PAIN to pass up little pleasures!

― Beth Parker, Saturday, 4 April 2009 01:06 (sixteen years ago)

I love this thread.

At the risk of opening up a WHOLE NEW CAN O'WORMS, I have recently discovered Waitrose's Cucumber & Basil washing-up liquid. It's for washing dishes so I don't use it to wash my hands, and neither do I keep in in the fridge. It smells gorgeous though.

― C J, Monday, 6 April 2009 11:07 (sixteen years ago)

Same for soy sauce, which most certainly does not need refrigeration. Just a convenient place for it.

wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong, although it depends how quickly you get through Soy Sauce. It will be fine if you get through it in a month, but have you tasted Soy Sauce which has been out for 6 months after opening? That shit is vile.

― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 6 April 2009 13:10 (sixteen years ago)

wtf soy sauce tastes better after a few months actually.

what brand do you use?

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Monday, 6 April 2009 13:41 (sixteen years ago)

i put as little stuff in the fridge as i can get away with

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 6 April 2009 13:42 (sixteen years ago)

bit worried about the Reggae Reggae Sauce mind you

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 6 April 2009 13:43 (sixteen years ago)

i love liquid soap

― Surmounter, Monday, 6 April 2009 13:43 (sixteen years ago)

i wish it was easier to buy refills

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 6 April 2009 13:45 (sixteen years ago)

we buy the big storebrand refills. but i make ryan refill it cuz i'm not good with that

― Surmounter, Monday, 6 April 2009 13:46 (sixteen years ago)

i have actually bought a 5L petrol can style of soy sauce that is probably going to last 2 years..

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Monday, 6 April 2009 13:48 (sixteen years ago)

Ketchup does dark if you leave it out of the fridge. It probably is still fine though.

It will come as no surprise to regular readers that I use the aforementioned giant hunks of olive oil soap from Marseilles, 3 quid a pop and they last for about four months.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 6 April 2009 14:01 (sixteen years ago)

GOES dark

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 6 April 2009 14:01 (sixteen years ago)

I've been leaving soy sauce out of the fridge for many years now, and I've never noticed a change in the taste.

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:10 (sixteen years ago)

http://flutterbyearomatics.com/soaps/olive_oil_soap3.jpg

mmm

― Surmounter, Monday, 6 April 2009 17:14 (sixteen years ago)

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