Say it ain't soap!

[nineveh_uk]

On cleaning the bathroom at the weekend, I decided that I couldn't be bothered to transfer the soap to another surface and then back to the sink having wiped it, because there wasn't much left, and transferred it straight to the bin instead. Inevitably I then discovered that the bathroom cabinet, while rich in shower gel, lacked replacement soap. But not quite! There was a bar of olive oil soap purchased on holiday because I am bad at purchasing non-edible souvenirs, and it was cheap. So I opened that instead, and am now remembering why after last time I had decided not to buy olive oil soap in future.

It's not that it doesn't work, because it does. It also smells pleasant. It is gentle on the hands. It's just that the texture is dissolving from the bottom up (i.e. the part that doesn't immediately dry out after use) into something hideously snot-like, or possibly the ichor secreted by the lesser tentacles of Cthulhu. I fear it has to go. The sink looks like the victim of a more than usually spectacular nose-blow, and I am fed up of having to keep wiping it. Soap is supposed to make things clean, not green. Adieu, olive oil soap! My lesson is thoroughly learned.

Comments

[helenajust.livejournal.com]

It is this tendency in soap bars that converted me to liquid soap, as well as the feeling that germs were left on the soap after use. Also, the containers don't make a mess on the basins the way soap bars do.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I prefer bars of soap in the bathroom for some reason (though not in the kitchen), but I tend to avoid the creamier ones because they're just messy, and green slime is not an improvement on remnants of Dove everywhere.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

What sort of soap dish do you use? I found that one with open bars on the bottom allowed air to circulate underneath and kept the lower regions of the soap from getting too squishy, unlike a saucer like dish which promotes gungyness.

[auntyros.livejournal.com]

I have a clever one from Muji which has a shaped bed of a stiff acrylic sponge to put the soap on, which allows for almost complete airing.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that I really hate soap dishes of all kinds, and because the sink is shaped to do the job itself, don't use one. And this normally works fine - but not in this case.