Do you use shower gel or soap?
By TriciaW
@TriciaW (2441)
United States
March 31, 2008 6:14am CST
My SO thinks that only soap can get you clean so he hates when I have my shower gel all over and he can't find his bar of soap. What do you think? What do you use?
14 responses
@momalisa65 (1971)
• United States
6 Apr 08
I have both in my shower. I use shower gel for most of my body but I have soap there for the 'really dirty parts', Lol! I have one of those mesh hanging things with pockets and it's full of shower gels and shampoos. Then I have a bar of soap on the soap holder. You could have both there too so you'd both be happy!
@JAY020582 (406)
• Philippines
6 Apr 08
I use soap eversince have no doubt that soap really make me feel clean...
@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
31 Mar 08
We use shower gel. My husband likes Irish Spring bar soap and I have to have that here for him or he has a fit.
@lordwarwizard (35747)
• Singapore
1 Apr 08
It would be the shower gel for me.
Long ago, it was soap but nowadays, I think it is so much easier to find gel than soap!
I also think it is more hygienic unless you have the soap all to yourself.
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@sunshine4 (8703)
• United States
31 Mar 08
I use soap to shower every day. If I decide to soak in the tub, I will use shower gel just for a special treat.
@luvstochat (6907)
• United States
31 Mar 08
I really like shower gel more than I do bar soap. I think shower gels have more of a scent that I like I buy one that smells liek cocounuts and it gets me clean and makes me smell good at the same time.
@barbiegirl13 (1588)
• United States
31 Mar 08
I use both soaps. I like to use bar soap to get clean and then I go over it with a body wash. Bar soap tends to dry my skin out and the body wash leaves my skin feeling moisturized.
@Phaedra_Scythe (3325)
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31 Mar 08
It's strange the way that people have their irrational preferences. Some soaps leave the skin dried out and tight and perhaps that's what your partner is mistaking for a feeling of "clean". My father is the same actually. Neither is better than the other though, cleanliness-wise.
I use both myself. I like soaps from Lush and Villainess because they don't dry out the skin and they smell amazing. I also use a lot of shower gel too. It depends on what the scents and companies are like rather than the form it comes in for me.
@SHAMRACK (8576)
• India
31 Mar 08
Dear Tricia,
I mostly use soaps and while travel I just use gel. But I feel mostly had a better bath if I use natural organic product made soaps. May be a soap without much chemicals and good smell would give a better satisfaction after using it.
@nilouette (632)
• Philippines
31 Mar 08
I use soap in luffa, I feel better after a clean rubdown...
@sutanhartanto (4122)
• Indonesia
31 Mar 08
i think both of them can get us clean. i personally prefer to use shower gel. however, there is always a bar of soap in my bathroom. we use it to clean our hand.
@bluebutterfly1234 (92)
• United States
31 Mar 08
I used to use shower gel all the time cause I could not find a bar soap that made me feel clean. I always seem to get a better lather out of the gel. But I decided to try caress bar recently and I really like caress. It makes my skin feel as good as shower gel did and cost alot less.
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