Liquid soap?
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lethargic_manWhen 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!
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!
