I once had a bar of Greek olive soap that left a very slight oil-like residue on my skin after use, and I totally loved how that felt. I'm not quite sure why the soap was that way; maybe the oil hadn't saponified completely or something. The bar looked perfectly normal though, dark green with maybe a slight transparent quality to it (it was long ago, my memory may be slightly incorrect). I have never found such a soa…
Chances are it'll be Papoutsanis soap. These are available in many places with Greek stuff, especially tourist places. For a more hand made one check this one too: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Greek-Traditional-Pure-Olive-Oil-So...
I think I tried that one already, but no luck. Maybe it was just a one-off production error. :( Thanks for the suggestion though.
I'll speak for the silent majority here who loves body wash. Unlike soap, it moisturizes your skin and makes you feel really clean.
It's only america that has theis strange obsession with bar soap. Go to a hotel anywhere else in the world and you get bottles of gel.
That's not true at all. I've traveled to most corners of the world, and the vast majority are little blocks of bar soap. Shampoo and Conditioner are usually the only in liquid form.
It's only america that has theis strange obsession with bar soap. Go to a hotel anywhere else in the world and you get bottles of gel.
That's not true at all. I've traveled to most corners of the world, and the vast majority are little blocks of bar soap. Shampoo and Conditioner are usually the only in liquid form.
The only time I've encountered soap rather than shampoo has been in the US (not even Canada) and Gaza (for some odd reason, but I always stay in the same hotel there)
Hotels from Brazil to Kenya, from New Zealand to China, from Pakistan to Denmark, have always had liquid soap for the shower.
Yeah, I don't understand this at all. We went like 200,000 years without soap, and as soon as we discovered soap, we were like where have you been all my life!? And now people think they don't need soap, and I wonder if they really don't smell, or if like our ancestors, learned to tune out the reek?
I'm kind of glad someone brought this up. I've known a handful of people who went soap-free (I used to live in a much more granola part of the country) and they insisted they had no odor. That was actually true for one of them. The other four or five (including a significant other, who I eventually split up from for a variety of reasons, and this was a small one) definitely had a musky odor that would grow increasing…
How we smell depends a lot on our activities. It's really the bacteria that cause sweat to smell bad, so it depends a lot on a physical activity and how long it's been sitting on the body. When a person sweats a lot, like during sports, sweat contains much more water and less food for bacterias, so the smell is less intensive. In high-school I used to spend whole summer on the beach playing sports, sweating like a pig, but also going in and out of water every few hours, and never smelled sweaty although I often would shower just once a day, before going to bed, and often with no soap at all. On the contrary nowadays after a day of 10h sitting in front of the screen I smell horrible even 10 minutes after just having a bath with soap and douche gels and everything.
Chances are it'll be Papoutsanis soap. These are available in many places with Greek stuff, especially tourist places. For a more hand made one check this one too: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Greek-Traditional-Pure-Olive-Oil-So...
I think I tried that one already, but no luck. Maybe it was just a one-off production error. :( Thanks for the suggestion though.
Note that i recommend two "brands" in my comment above, the link isn't to Papoutsanis soap but some smaller one :-). It is very easy to find Papoutsanis soap with a Google search so i didn't link to it.
I hope you either still use soap when washing your hands, or work from home and don't go out to eat. I work with a bunch of nastyass people that take huge noisy dumps and then just walk right out of the bathroom without washing. No wonder I get sick several times a year now.
When I see colleagues just leave the bathroom without washing their hands I always have an urge to say something but never do. The bad thing is that they leave before me as I wash my hands, but then like a minute later I need to use the same door they used to enter our office. :(
I always grab a paper towel on the way out to open doors with.
Do you mean you are just using water nowadays, or did you switch to using detergent or otherkind of cleaning formula?
Just water. My hair is short so I can get away with washing my hair water-only as well, but it becomes a pain for people with long hair (it can become quite unmanageable).
No. I had hair below my chest for 3 years without using shampoo or conditioner and it worked out great. Brushing was way easier and I always got compliments by my lady friends for how great my hair looked. There is also an entire subreddit dedicated to this: /r/nopoo
I stopped washing with soap 6 years ago and never looked back. For the first month, my skin was so greasy all the time that it felt like I'd been wearing the same clothes for a week, just an hour after putting them on, but then my skin finally adjusted to the new normal. My skin is soft - much too soft for a man of my age, according to my wife. I have no body odor, even after a heavy workout where I'm still covered i…
According to Burkhart, 20/20 patients in their pilot study answered affirmatively that eliminating soap bathing helped their atopic dermatitis (eczema). They mention that this is already a routine recommendation in some countries such as China.
Just water. My hair is short so I can get away with washing my hair water-only as well, but it becomes a pain for people with long hair (it can become quite unmanageable).
As I understand it, it's the opposite. I recently grew out my hair, and all the women insist that I've been doing horrible things by shampooing every day. Washing out the oils that protect my hair and keep it from drying out. I've been washing my hair with just water, and it works better than I expected. In the past, if I didn't wash my scalp before bed I'd feel itchy and sleep badly, but water seems to do a sufficie…
This completely depend on your hair type and skin type. Some of us end up with limp oily clumps of hair if we don't wash it every 1-2 days.
It's quite remarkable how successful the marketing campaign against bar soap has been such that it's somehow thought of as unclean. All to get us to switch to far, far more wasteful liquid soap.
somehow thought of as unclean To be fair: if your hands are dirty like from gardening or working on a bicycle then some of that dirt will stick to the soap and stay there until after a couple of 'clean' uses. But in my mind that doesn't mean the soap is unclean. After all, the visible dirt is normally a lot less to worry about than the stuff which you don't perceive with your bare eyes. Of which I actually don't know…
Just rinse off the bar of soap under the running water as you finish washing your hand, and problem solved.