Importing to DreamWidth

The last few times LiveJournal have changed things, I've been giving serious consideration to moving to DreamWidth; and this time I might actually do it (particularly as my yearly paid time at LiveJournal is coming up for renewal soon).

However, a quick goosey-goosey at DreamWidth shows that a free account on DW provides most of the functionality of a paid account on LiveJournal; and DW charge almost twice the amount for a paid account that LiveJournal do. Whilst I'd be willing to pay to help DW succeed, I'm not sure I'd be willing to pay twice the price for the benefit of (a) being able to have as many icons on DW as on LJ (though this would be a necessity to import my blog from LJ without losing all of the iconage), and (b) being able to post polls. There's other functionality available for paid accounts, but nothing which I would gain any advantage from, in terms of what I use my blog for.

Can any of the DWers amongst you give me better reasons to part with my cash and get a paid account at DW?

A question for the DreamWidth users amongst you

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Liquid soap?

When I was growing up in the seventies and eighties, we didn't have liquid soap. I don't know whether this was because it was less available or popular then, or just reflective of my mother's preference, but I was raised with an association that soap formed solid bars.

Nowadays I go to other people's houses and I see an assortment of bottles of glistening ooze, and need to carefully check the labels before using any to make sure I'm applying something capable of lysing bacteria to my hand, and not just moisturiser. And to make things worse, liquid soap bottles are never labelled "soap"; they've always got a convoluted and indirect description instead. "Handwash" is about the simplest they ever get. What's wrong with just "soap"?

Not only that, but liquid soap is inherently delivered in an environmentally unfriendly manner: whilst soap bars are packaged in waxed paper wrappers, or at worst a thin plastic film, liquid soap requires a thick plastic bottle. All being well, the bottle can be recycled, but wouldn't it be better not to require packaging made from fossil fuels in the first place?

Bah; liquid soap? I wash my hands of it!