Soap is unaffordable now apparently…

[John Skinner]

5 minutes ago, Squaredy said:

I read through to the end of the BBC article, and then there was confirmation that it was all made up.  Apparently a student was skipping lectures as he was unable to buy soap.

 

It's difficult to buy soap when all your money is going on iPhones, iPads, fancy oversized headphones, mobile data contracts, expensive trainers, beard grooming wax, hair gel, avocados, beer, kebabs, Freddy the frog chocolate and the like. It's very difficult for students these days 🙄 (sarcastic eye roll)

[GarethM]

Is this where we'll have a 1980s style homebrew resurgence but for making your own soap ?. These £500 ingredients to make 10p worth of hipster soap.

[Dan Maynard]

Soap is one of the things in the modern world that confuses me. When I was young we bought bars of unbranded green or white soap, they were really cheap. Now it has to be shower gel or pump soap in plastic bottles, whilst we need to cut single use plastic going to landfill.

 

The soap has gone off the supermarket shelves though, so clearly not enough people were buying it any more.

[GarethM]

Maybe it's those highbrow places you shop, but all the usual supermarkets have plenty at 2 bars for 85p. Not sure whatever happened to the old unbranded soaps that even the rats wouldn't eat, maybe b&m ?.

 

As even then a bar of dove last about 4 months, say 3 bars a year at 47p each.

Oh the poverty!.

[Squaredy]

18 minutes ago, Dan Maynard said:

The soap has gone off the supermarket shelves though

Plenty in the supermarkets near me.

[Logdaft]

Bar of carbolic soap & a wire brush .... sorted! 👍

[Stere]

 

 

Dove stuff seems extra soft, doesn't last as long as others aint it for/marketed at women?

 

Imperial leather etc lasts better.

Edited October 27, 2022 by Stere

[Steve Bullman]

19 minutes ago, GarethM said:

Maybe it's those highbrow places you shop, but all the usual supermarkets have plenty at 2 bars for 85p. Not sure whatever happened to the old unbranded soaps that even the rats wouldn't eat, maybe b&m ?.

 

As even then a bar of dove last about 4 months, say 3 bars a year at 47p each.

Oh the poverty!.

We went to a Christmas shopping fair last weekend. Some jokers were trying to charge £6 for a bar of vegan soap 

[Dan Maynard]

All right, not totally gone - but look how much space is taken up by shower gel and pump soap. Rows and rows of it.

[GarethM]

Shurrup you for calling out my choice of soap, give it a try and the Mrs might appreciate it ;). Unlike most soap and shower gel it doesn't leave any residue, so no need for big brushes and scouring pads.

 

I'm surprised they're not moaning about the cost of shaving, the fascination with expensive razors at what £3 a cartridge.

 

I DE shave for less than 6p a week, I'm still working through £10 worth of blade I bought a decade ago and have atleast another 15 years before I need more.

Edited October 27, 2022 by GarethM