CycleChat investigates - Soap

[Oldhippy]

We get ecologically sound stuff.

 

[Cycleops]

You can buy large blocks of soap which you then chop up and melt down before adding whatever you fancy.Put into moulds and add a fancy wrapper and the profit margin is whatever you think you can get away with. Been there done that.
Got the base soap from some bunch in Cornwall who had difficulty with proper invoicing so we fell out and I abandoned that enterprise.

That's what happened when Anita Roddick got hold of it years ago.

 

[Blue Hills]

Pears for me, makes adding old sliver to new bar as easy as possible, so no waste.

I have a dim memory that you used to be able to buy things for forming bits of soap into new bars. Was it a fevered dream?

 

[Blue Hills]

We all use the local black soap:

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Main ingredient honey?

 

[Vantage]

Fairy liquid Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face

My face currently being rough as a hedgehogs arse.

 

[Cycleops]

Main ingredient honey?

I'm sure it's not, I can't even smell any. First time I've bothered to read the ingredients so just as surprised. It's very soft and quite pleasant to use.

 

[Blue Hills]

I'm sure it's not, I can't even smell any. First time I've bothered to read the ingredients so just as surprised. It's very soft and quite pleasant to use.

Cripes, you're brave - it's called black soap and you've never looked at the ingredients? I check everything out. If it's not honey, and it's the main ingredient (as it's first in the list?) And you can't smell anything, what the hell is it?
The forum demands a taste test.

 

[MichaelW2]

I find Swargega perfectly adequate for all of my hygiene needs.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Fairy liquid Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face

There was an excellent joke knocking around in the 80s about two brothers working in a kitchen and both being too squeamish to dispatch a sea creature for the pot. The punchline was "Hans that does dishes can be soft as Hugh Fez, with my old green hairy-lipped squid."

Anyway, soap.... I can't use soap on my face, it dries my skin out terribly. I use squirty soap on my hands.

 

[Blue Hills]

That's what happened when Anita Roddick got hold of it years ago.

Someone who used to work for bodyshop told me that two of the differently named, and priced, things sold by the sainted one were precisely the same holy gunk.

 

[DCBassman]

I have a dim memory that you used to be able to buy things for forming bits of soap into new bars. Was it a fevered dream?

No, your memory is sound!
I've never stooped to it, but it was a sort of press where you saved slivers then reformed them into another bar.
Used to turn up regularly in "penny-pincher" type things, along with a larger version to turn old newspapers into fire logs.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Where's the option for a handful of sand and a dab of washing up liquid? The common man's swarfega.

Ah the traditional gravel wash 🧼 for which you need a gravel bike.

 

[Sharky]

When I was a boy, I always wanted to try this out ....

..... On my brother

 

[welsh dragon]

What was that horrible rock hard green soap called, the one that it would have taken you till the end of time to get it to lather.

And you forgot dove soap. That's the best.

 

[PeteXXX]

I have a dim memory that you used to be able to buy things for forming bits of soap into new bars. Was it a fevered dream?

I bet that it was 'Bronco' that sold them.. 🤔