I've tried tons, I can't say one is better than another. Tried several body washes, face washes, bar soap, liquid soap, etc.
Sometimes I find one I like and works well, but eventually I feel as if my body starts rejecting it, almost as if it is not rinsing off properly, I can feel and smell the soap a few hours after drying off. more like my skin absorbs it and then slowly starts secreting it through the day, leaving that nasty soapy residue feel all over. This isn't an oily sweaty feel, I know that, it is distinctly soapy. I switch soap again and issue is usually resolved for a month or so. this is getting tiring as I usually have tons of excess soap left over at this point still.
I literally spend about 2 minutes washing, and 20 minutes rinsing.
Same goes for shampoo. shampoo designed for oily scalps leave my hair extremely dry. shampoo designed for dry or normal hair work fine for a few weeks and then start leaving it very oily and I have to keep switching. I don't want to end up like a female with a different bottle for every day of the week(or some of you old geezers with your pills for every hour of the day) hehe.
I use some flavor of Dial. (I buy dial for Men when I can find it, but use the brown/orange bars when that isn't available.) I used to use Coast, but changed to Dial for its (perceived) better antibacterial properties.
I use "Matrix Biolage - Normalizing formula" shampoo. It's pretty expensive, but I have oily hair even at my age. Shampoo that works for me without having to switch off every few days is kind of difficult to find.
That's an issue here, and creates a similar problem.
I use something in a gray bottle, with "hydrate" in the name. I follow the extremely scientific method of buying different types until my wife says "I like the way that one smells", and never buying anything else again ever.
Dove in the winter and Equate anti-dandruff shampoo since I have dry skin. You must have an incredible sense of smell. The good news is when you get older, your sense of smell diminishes. Actually, I wouldn't mind smelling like my soap "hours later."
How often should we bathe? I've read that we bathe more often than is healthy, When I was a kid we bathed once a week and since I was the second oldest I was the second one to use the bath water. I hated getting into a bath with soap scum floating on the surface, but we rinsed after bathing. That was 69 years ago and we also had a little house away from the house. We kept it even after we got an indoor toilet for the times that the one bathroom was busy. Edited to add: I'll take that extra soap off your hands. Soap is soap to me.
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Why do I click on links you post I will never know !
But I always do I must be a glutton for punishment.
I like that orange stuff with the grit in it for hand soap, rinse and repeat. now as far as you other guys and your links to strange soap types and shapes. You are very sick people and coming from me that says something.
Steve
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Dove in the winter and Equate anti-dandruff shampoo since I have dry skin. You must have an incredible sense of smell. The good news is when you get older, your sense of smell diminishes. Actually, I wouldn't mind smelling like my soap "hours later."
Maybe that's it I'm 73 and nearly all if not all my senses have diminished. Maybe I smell bad!
At home, I use whatever I pick up at the Dollar Tree store. She uses girly stuff that I can't even pronounce. At the lake house, the water comes from underground limestone caverns, so it carries a lot of minerals. In waterspeak, its hard. Kirks Castille soap is all natural, and is just about the only soap that will lather enough for a pretty good shave in the hard water. It cleans my butt pretty well, too.
Yes, this. I switched to a local handmade soap from Whole Foods and I love it! I use it as a soap and a shampoo. Glycerin soap does not dry out hair like "deodorant bars" (read somewhere that they are called that because they cannot be legally called "soap" without a certain glycerin content) do,
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Most soaps irritate my skin. Found the Dove exfoliating body wash with "nutrium" or some such moisturizers in it gets me clean and keeps me from getting dry/itchy/irritated skin. Years of dickign around with different kinds of soap/washes 'til I found this. Think this is the stuff:
Shampoo: usually some kind of dandruff stuff, prevents the same issues on my head.
I use Kirks Castile soap.. Its a very old brand, old style soap. I have very sensitive skin and this soap works great, and rinses off with no residue afterwards. We sell it at work for .99 a bar. It smells like coconut, but won't make you smell like coconut when you use it.
I used to use octagon, but they stopped making it a few years ago. You can still find it in some places, but its hard to get, and very expensive.. I think amazon still sells a 3 bar pack for like $150.. (yes really).. It was a great soap, a shame they stopped making it. But Kirks Castle is almost the same thing, only with a coconut scent. Neither soap has any detergents, dyes or fragrance, that can sometimes stick to your skin and irritate it. (Kirks smells like coconut cause its made from coconut)..
I have very dry skin on my hands, and it gets much worse during the winter months (my skin will dry right out and ill get cracks and bleeding splits on my hands) So during the winter i use Grandmas Lye soap for my hands. Its as old fashioned as you can get.. Just Water, Lard & Lye.. Works great. But its kinda pricy which is why i only use it during the winter. (its like $5 a bar)...
i do NOT want to know how or why you found those.
