Wash your soap!
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
May 6, 2020 10:17am CST
The image was clipped from The Marlboro Democrat December 20, 1889
You can click the image to make it bigger.
If you read the article you'll find that the author remarks upon the importance of washing your soap off. It's important to place the soap in a tin dish that has holes so that the drainage from the soap has somewhere to go. In this way, you keep form jelly consistency soap.
She recommends that you should ensure each member of the family is doing this. Dish soap should be put in a sort of tin shaker so that only a bit at a time will be used. She also bemoans the fact that servants will leave the dishsoap in the water, resulting in the taste of soap in food dishes.
Hmm..
I'm leaving the clipping here so you can read it for yourself. I just thought it would provide a bit of amusement now..
How do you keep your dish and / or handsoap?
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 May 20
As do I. I have even used body wash mixed with water when I am running out of hand soap.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 May 20
@amitkokiladitya Yes, especially as so many people use it. I use bar soap in the shower more now, but I rinse it off before I use it for myself.
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@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
6 May 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum yes ..the bar is definitely contaminated.
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
6 May 20
We mostly have liquid soaps here . . . but in the shower we do have a dish for bar soap if anyone is inclined to use it (either goat's milk or charcoal soap). We had a soap dish in the main bathroom - but it seemed that no one was using it at all (the bar soap kinda shrunk), so I put that away - earlier in the year actually.
@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
6 May 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum A cream/whipped soap? Where have I been . . . how is that like?
Good point - I guess people would have used bar soap for dishes way back when. I can't remember if my mom did that when we were very young. They could have used Dove . . . to keep their dishes soft and young looking 
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.@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 May 20
@much2say The creamed soap is so good. I used to get one from a company that I am not sure makes it any more. The soap is so silky smooth, almost like applying lotion. You can find that kind of stuff on etsy, which is where I used to get a lot of my beauty products.
Dove would have also been better on their hands!
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 May 20
I used to do more liquid soap or cream / whipped type soap, but I've gone to bar soap for body washing as well.
Liquid for hand and dish soap. I doubt there are many who use barred soap for dishwashing anymore.
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@Aansh13 (11433)
• New Delhi, India
6 May 20
We usually go for hand wash, but I do keep soap in my kitchen area... and I have a dish which has pores to drain of water....
But washing soap concept is something nice... thanks for sharing this...
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 May 20
Yes, I have a porous type of soap pad in the shower that soaks up the residue from the soap. It can be washed after a few uses.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 May 20
@Aansh13 Yes, I think so atleast.
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@Aansh13 (11433)
• New Delhi, India
6 May 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum
This surely sounds better....
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@Pandy_ (800)
• Sydney, Australia
7 May 20
dear me even nowadays i dont think people are aware that wet bar soap sitting on sinks all day harbor bacteria i clean my soap dish daily that i have in my shower and i use hand soap at sink
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
7 May 20
I think people may be aware, but they aren't aware of how fast the bacteria can grow.
@Pandy_ (800)
• Sydney, Australia
7 May 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum this is true amber
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@Lavanya15 (12888)
• Chennai, India
6 May 20
Yes this information is very valuable for me.. I always keep my soap in dish which having hols..
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 May 20
We have an absorbent type of pad underneath our soap that can be cleaned from time to time. For the kitchen, we just use the liquid soap.
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@amadeo (111937)
• United States
6 May 20
I always do this after washing rinse off the soap.Makes a lot of sense.
@LindaOHio (222417)
• United States
6 May 20
More information about soap than I could ever use! The handsoap is always in a soap dish raised up with large holes under it.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 May 20
It was quite a lot of info, wasn't it?
We still have to the fancy looking dish soap trays here, but we used more liquid soap now.
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