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

[naraht]

Oh dear! Soap is tricky all round.

I bought some ridiculously expensive soap from Toast a few weeks back, and was storing it in my knitwear drawer. It made my knitwear smell lovely and, when I finally put it on the bathroom sink, it made the bathroom smell lovely too. All was well until my housemate said "is that new smelly soap yours?" His standard for scents is clearly different than mine. I took it away for a while as he had a cold, and it seemed unfair to add more olfactory provocation to that, but I've put it back now (as I ran out of my other soap) and am hoping that the scent diminishes a little now that it isn't fresh out of the packaging...

[ironed_orchid]

This is very close to the reason I stopped using the olive oil and Dead Sea mud soap from Palestine. It was great for my skin and I want to support the Palestinian olive growers, but I don't want muddy snot in my bathroom anymore.

[clanwilliam]

I've got one I keep in a box because the slime is exactly what I need for my chiropody sponges, which are the greatest foot exfoliators ever. You *have* to have a good wodge of soap on them if you want to actually have feet left after using them.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

Olive oil soap is very good for felting (when in solution), and also for hand washing delicates. However, this does mean that you either need to grate the drier portions into a pot, or keep it in tupperware for times of need...

[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.