What's your favorit soap when showering?

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agnitrate

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Is anyone else confused when they see the Dove commercials for their soap? It looks EXACTLY like their commercial for chocolate ice cream bars except the soap is silky white instead of silky brown. I swear that when I see the commercial I feel more like eating the soap than washing with it.

Maybe it's just me :eek:

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Parrotheader

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Originally posted by: Mo0o
Originally posted by: Parrotheader
My wife's got me liking shower gel now. Yeah it's not as manly, but with those scrunchy things it lathers up quick and easy and the gels don't seem to dry out my skin quite as much. I typically use the Equate shower gel - the one that's kind of dark blue next to the other 'manly' shower gels. :eek:

do you have the pink lathehereruperthing? :D
No, mine's dark green *manly grunt* :D Although I will let my wife use her pink latherupperthing on me when we're in there together. At that point who cares right? ;)
 

KokomoGST

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Originally posted by: Parrotheader
Originally posted by: Mo0o
Originally posted by: Parrotheader
My wife's got me liking shower gel now. Yeah it's not as manly, but with those scrunchy things it lathers up quick and easy and the gels don't seem to dry out my skin quite as much. I typically use the Equate shower gel - the one that's kind of dark blue next to the other 'manly' shower gels. :eek:

do you have the pink lathehereruperthing? :D
No, mine's dark green *manly grunt* :D Although I will let my wife use her pink latherupperthing on me when we're in there together. At that point who cares right? ;)

I use a yellow scrub towel, because yellow means "fast"... it also means hazard, caution, taxi, and bus!! :p
Makes washing my back pretty easy... no contortionism (new word!!) needed.
 
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Lola

i love coast or irish spring, but Victoria secret has the best body wash. i use both in the shower!
 

Pepsei

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Originally posted by: LoneCowBoy
Originally posted by: Pepsei
I've been an Irish spring fan ever since it came out.... just the green kind....

It just smells good.

since it came out....or since you came out?

Since it came out...the original, which is 1972? :D
 

Zenmervolt

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Originally posted by: Mo0o
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Originally posted by: Pepsei
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Irish Spring? Dove?! Come on people. Use a man's soap. :p ;) I use Dial. The original gold Dial, the way God intended it.

ZV
That's funny, most of chicks in my office us Dial. I'd think that "lava" is more manly. :D
Oh come on. Dial is the original anti-bacterial soap, none of those weird scents or moistureizers. :p I prefer Boraxo to Lava myself.

ZV
i hear anti-bacteria is bad though. cuz you breed a race of super bacteria that establish a conquering empire on your skin leaving death and suffering in its wake. maybe thats the propaganda non anti-bacteria soaps i've been fed

Haha, that's the best reasoning behind not using Dial I've ever heard. LOL. :D :D It's deoderant too. If I run out of Right Guard, I can break my bar of dial in half and stick a piece into each armpit. :p

ZV
 

Zenmervolt

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Originally posted by: Parrotheader
Wasn't there a major report about a month or two ago about how all these soaps marketing themselves as 'anti-bacterial' really didn't offer any anti-bacterial benefit over other soaps who didn't claim/tout the 'anti-bacterial' angle?

Ahh yes. Answered my own question with a quick Google search.
Which brands? Are "anti-microbial" soaps (the kind tested in the article) the same as anti-bacterial? I ask because I seriously don't know.

ZV
 

CurtCold

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Old Spice High Endurance Soap, now that's a man's soap...well ok the Lava Soap with Sand sounds more macho, but can't go wrong with High Endurance soap.
 

Parrotheader

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Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Originally posted by: Parrotheader
Wasn't there a major report about a month or two ago about how all these soaps marketing themselves as 'anti-bacterial' really didn't offer any anti-bacterial benefit over other soaps who didn't claim/tout the 'anti-bacterial' angle?

Ahh yes. Answered my own question with a quick Google search.
Which brands? Are "anti-microbial" soaps (the kind tested in the article) the same as anti-bacterial? I ask because I seriously don't know.

ZV
I really have no idea. I just remember seeing this report on several different stations that day. The report did mention that those hand sanitizers (the ones you don't need water for) do work great though. I keep one of those right next to my desk to try and avoid sickness at the office.

 

Zenmervolt

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Originally posted by: Parrotheader
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Originally posted by: Parrotheader
Wasn't there a major report about a month or two ago about how all these soaps marketing themselves as 'anti-bacterial' really didn't offer any anti-bacterial benefit over other soaps who didn't claim/tout the 'anti-bacterial' angle?

Ahh yes. Answered my own question with a quick Google search.
Which brands? Are "anti-microbial" soaps (the kind tested in the article) the same as anti-bacterial? I ask because I seriously don't know.

ZV
I really have no idea. I just remember seeing this report on several different stations that day. The report did mention that those hand sanitizers (the ones you don't need water for) do work great though. I keep one of those right next to my desk to try and avoid sickness at the office.
Pure isopropyl alcohol would work better than the sanitizers though. Cheaper too. (Isopropyl alcohol is the active ingredient.) Nothing against the sanitizers, just pointing it out.

ZV
 

Pepsei

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Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
Irish Spring...dont know why u guys say it isnt manly...

Right, the soap itself is biodegradable... so you can take it to camping trips... and use it in the river. (manly type of camping trips)