Soap is unaffordable now apparently…

[Squaredy]

29 minutes ago, Dan Maynard said:

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

And what you have to remember is the amount of space given to a product in a supermarket is directly calculated by sales.  So if you see loads of space given to expensive handwash, then that is because lots of it gets sold.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

1 hour ago, Steve Bullman said:

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

Cornwall is full of these jokers with their so-called niche start ups funded from excess property sales profit and a re-location to Rock or Padstein with their rabbit bumble and Logan berry infused gin at £65/bottle and their 'speciality' honey from endangered mountain bees which have been 're-homed' (which is more likely supermarket mass produced then re bottled) and sold at a eye watering profit to other chinless wonders that have more money than sense, clogging up the country lanes in their massively over priced VW T5 with their little darlings Jemima and Tarquin...

 

Cnuts all of them!

 

My mate had a right laugh at a Cothele House Christmas jamboree a couple of years back.  We'd been smashing down Mont pines nearby and he spent ½ hour hoovering up over sized pine cone in chicken feed bags. Filled his transit with them.  We all took the piss but he had the last laugh selling them at a pound a piece as "Victorian Christmas decorations" or £5 a small bag as "traditional firelighters."  He cleared up that day - sold the lot, could have sold it all twice, three times over!  

 

 

[openspaceman]

8 hours ago, Stere said:

 

 

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

 

 

No this is marketed for women

 

 

I had to raid my Xmas present stash for this shot

[difflock]

45 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

No this is marketed for women

 

 

I had to raid my Xmas present stash for this "money" shot.

"wanker"

 

[GarethM]

Is that like Gwyneth Paltrow's candle, for lack of a better word, the smell of the her inside ?.

 

Bit unsure if I'd want a sniff of an old French lady

Edited October 27, 2022 by GarethM

[openspaceman]

41 minutes ago, difflock said:

 

Go to the naughty step Marcus but don't talk to Kevin.

[daveatdave]

15 hours ago, Stubby said:

I saw that the " dirtiest man in the world " died recently . I wonder how much money he saved over the years ,

i saw that, had his first bath in 60 years and died shortly after 

[trigger_andy]

18 hours ago, Dan Maynard said:

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.

Theres loads of different bars of soap in the supermarket shelves though? 

 

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=soap

 

My weapon of choice is the Wrights Traditional.

 

The cheapest one in the link is the Tescos value at 15p a bar.

[Billhook]

Still not worth picking it up after you have dropped it in a communal shower!

[John Skinner]

5 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

My weapon of choice is the Wrights Traditional.

 

 

Ah yes. Can't go wrong with Wrights Coal Tar soap. Also the old Life Buoy red bar, or the original Dettol / Vaseline soap bars. Just add water 🤣

Edited October 28, 2022 by John Skinner