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Does anyone know of a bar of soap that does not turn to mush before you get to the end of it.

Either there has been an EU ban of what was a common ingredient or the manufacturers have been crafty and found an ingredient to make them go to mush so as to increase their profits, we have tried lots of brands and the same happens with all of them!!

No longer are we left with a tiny shard of soap, for instance those transparent bars of Pears soap used to last for ages now you have to throw them away as soon as they break down.
 
Imperial Leather still seems to maintain the ability, or you could always get some old fashioned carbolic or coal tar blocks.
 
DemiLion said:
Imperial Leather still seems to maintain the ability, or you could always get some old fashioned carbolic or coal tar blocks.
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Yes - Imperial Leather is good in that respect, but don't leave it sitting in a wet soap dish.
 
arclight said:
Yes - Imperial Leather is good in that respect, but don't leave it sitting in a wet soap dish.
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Today's soap does not need to be sitting in a wet soap dish to disintegrate to mush it just needs the residual water after use.
 
Use the squirty stuff out of a tub ;) I haven't bought an actual bar of soap for years. Horrible messy stuff :p
 
Grendel said:
Use the squirty stuff out of a tub ;) I haven't bought an actual bar of soap for years. Horrible messy stuff :p
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:agree: and I have even added one of those hands-free dispensers for the kitchen sink.

Mind you, if I do need to use a soap bar at someone elses house [or for taking away, less likely to get damaged in transit than a bottle] I also prefer Imperial Leather for its general lack of a slimy squishiness so inherent with other makes :gag:
 
Yv said:
:agree: and I have even added one of those hands-free dispensers for the kitchen sink.

Mind you, if I do need to use a soap bar at someone elses house [or for taking away, less likely to get damaged in transit than a bottle] I also prefer Imperial Leather for its general lack of a slimy squishiness so inherent with other makes :gag:
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I really dont understand the hand-free things, you are about to wash your hands so why does it matter if you touch something?

Anyway, another vote for liquid soap...hate the bar stuff! Can't remember the last I used and if it stayed in bar form or went to mush :(
 
Grendel said:
Use the squirty stuff out of a tub ;) I haven't bought an actual bar of soap for years. Horrible messy stuff :p
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We do use tubs of Carex ;)but still like good old fashioned bars of soap:) maybe this is a ploy to get us all to ditch conventional bars of soap in favour of the more profitable tubs of liquid soap !
 
Jimmy_Lemon said:
I really dont understand the hand-free things, you are about to wash your hands so why does it matter if you touch something?

Anyway, another vote for liquid soap...hate the bar stuff! Can't remember the last I used and if it stayed in bar form or went to mush :(
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Laziness of course! Like you needed an explanation? Tch! :p
 
I'm happy to pay their profit margins to avoid that horrible slime all over my bathroom sink :) Palmolive do the best dispenser soap imo, although Carex is ideal for the kitchen :thumbs:
 
Didn't JML or someone like that do a gadget that would compress all the end bits into a new bar?
 
Store the soap in an airing cupboard before you use it.
 
Most "soap" that you see now is actually a soap/synthetic detergent mix - or entirely syndet - if you look on the ingredients list and there's guff like sodium laurel sulphate, terms like sulphonate - it's syndet and syndets tend to be a lot softer and more readily dissolvable than true soaps so they disintegrate into the aforementioned mush.

Sadly carbolic soap as it was (and Wright's Coal Tar) are both now outlawed by the EU - Wright's is now "Traditional Soap with Coal Tar Fragrance" and if you dig into the Carbolic it's something along the same lines.

Saponified fats & oils make soap - petroleum byproducts make syndets... your call - I'm a strictly soap man.
 
Personally I prefer Geo. F. Trumper's saddlecloth soap shavings for old gentlemen...





...although I might have some of those words the wrong way round.
 
gramps said:
Didn't JML or someone like that do a gadget that would compress all the end bits into a new bar?
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Gramps, the point I am making is you are not left with any "end bits" any more just mush half way through the bar.
 
hunnymonster said:
Most "soap" that you see now is actually a soap/synthetic detergent mix - or entirely syndet - if you look on the ingredients list and there's guff like sodium laurel sulphate, terms like sulphonate - it's syndet and syndets tend to be a lot softer and more readily dissolvable than true soaps so they disintegrate into the aforementioned mush.

Sadly carbolic soap as it was (and Wright's Coal Tar) are both now outlawed by the EU - Wright's is now "Traditional Soap with Coal Tar Fragrance" and if you dig into the Carbolic it's something along the same lines.

Saponified fats & oils make soap - petroleum byproducts make syndets... your call - I'm a strictly soap man.
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Cheers Jason:thumbs: the nail has been well and truly hit on the head with that explanation, and it would not surprise me if the EU have something to do with the change in ingredients.
 
Oh the move away from saponified lipids to syndet is more about accountants than the EU... and some bulldust about soap being drying to the skin (which it is - because it's a degreaser) but so is any detergent... in fact the syndets are often far more effective degreasers (and hence far more drying) than soap.
 
imperial leather is good but prison soap is the best it last for ages
 
We do have some diverse discussions on this here photography forum :D
 
Galaxy66 said:
We do have some diverse discussions on this here photography forum :D
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Well you started it :lol:
 
Galaxy66 said:
Today's soap does not need to be sitting in a wet soap dish to disintegrate to mush it just needs the residual water after use.
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Imperial leather stays firm (all the way down until the bar is almost finished) if you don't leave it in a wet soap dish.
 
arclight said:
Imperial leather stays firm (all the way down until the bar is almost finished) if you don't leave it in a wet soap dish.
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It's on the fridge door shopping list at this very moment :D
 
Jimmy_Lemon said:
I really dont understand the hand-free things, you are about to wash your hands so why does it matter if you touch something?
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I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks that every time the advert comes on.. I guess it's just something else to make the germ paranoid lot buy more expensive soap.
 
I hate the liquid soaps, they make mess of my skin and don't clean as well. Give me a proper block of real soap anyday.
 
Galaxy66 said:
It's on the fridge door shopping list at this very moment :D
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Do you remember Rob (Arkady). He asked for Imp. Leather to be sent to him in A/stan because it did not go to mush like the others.

Only thing that irritates me about is the little paper label. Try to pick it off with a finger nail and you get a piece of soap wedged under the nail.
 
I find that a tablespoon of Fairy Liquid poured under the running tap gives a good amount of bubbles and leaves me soft almost all over as well as removing most of the dirt. In reality, I bring back a few bars of Cretan Olive oil and honey soap after every holiday - cleans well, doesn't go to mush and leaves me smelling all sweet and lovely.
 
Olive soap, and a bar lasts for ages. Love the stuff
 
imperial leather always gets a layer of mush at the bottom, tried some very cheap soap before that splits and cracks its so dry
 
another vote for imperial leather here. i have very sensitive skin and find its the most gentle "bar" soap on the market that doesnt cost a fortune, my current bar is about 3cm long, time for a new one i think
 
I personally use Lush's "Honey I Washed the Kids" soap - I love the scent of honey and it stays decently together for a long time if you don't leave it standing in water!
 
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