Busaholic
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Pears or Simple, Dove at a stretch. Would probably buy Lifeguard if I ever saw it around!
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Still very much available overseas. Saw it when I was home recently, though the scent isn't as strong as it used to be.
That's my problem with solid soap generally. My flatmate uses it and trying to keep the shower walls clean is a nightmare
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All the bars of soap I have used in recent years seem to swell (slowly) and then start to split.
Does anyone know a brand of soap that does not do this ?
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Pears doesn't split, in my experience.
birchesgreen
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You do? Quite easy to find at the supermarkets i go to.
py_megapixel
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I quite like Pears.
I also like the scent and the feeling of using 'Faith in Nature' soaps, except that they seem to exacerbate a problem I have where some of the skin on my hands becomes dried-out and sore, so I don't use them.
The best soap I've used came from a health-food shop in Germany and I've not been able to find it in the UK unfortunately. It was a bar soap containing olive oil - it didn't smell of much, but it did an effective job of cleaning my hands and also helped with the aforementioned dry skin (I've since discovered that just applying olive oil to said skin also works but it's more of a faff).
I also like the scent and the feeling of using 'Faith in Nature' soaps, except that they seem to exacerbate a problem I have where some of the skin on my hands becomes dried-out and sore, so I don't use them.
The best soap I've used came from a health-food shop in Germany and I've not been able to find it in the UK unfortunately. It was a bar soap containing olive oil - it didn't smell of much, but it did an effective job of cleaning my hands and also helped with the aforementioned dry skin (I've since discovered that just applying olive oil to said skin also works but it's more of a faff).
birchesgreen
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There are a number of olive oil based bars of soaps available like Korres, have you tried them?
py_megapixel
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I did try a couple but they weren't as good as the German one.
Never heard of Korres, but I'll give them a go if I can find somewhere to buy them!
birchesgreen
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Waitrose sell it i think
py_megapixel
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Thanks for the tip! I'll have a look in Waitrose next time I go in (though it might be a while as it's not all that close to where I am(
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I've never struggled to find soap. The supermarkets sell it, as do pound shops, places like B&M etc.
The only time I struggled was when the world went crazy in March 2020, when there was no soap of any kind available due to the panic buying. But it didn't last long and in my local supermarket bars of soap returned before the liquid soaps did.
I think you mean Lifebuoy!
It seems that a rare sight nowadays is a shaving soap stick (like Palmolive or Cussons). Presumably they had some ingredient that was deemed as destroying the planet so have been withdrawn as I haven't seen these available in supermarkets for a couple of years. Instead I bought an "essentials" aerosol can of shaving cream (hardly saving, nor shaving, the planet either) but have since settled for getting soap shaving sticks brand name ARKO (through Amazon) which are fine. Posh relatives look at my shaving paraphernalia in the bathroom and shake their heads at the sight of the shaving soap stick and then faint away completely that I use common BIC razors 
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As for regular soap I reverted to using bars during the COVID months, these being an antibacterial brand called CIDAL which is reassuring if nothing else.
.As for regular soap I reverted to using bars during the COVID months, these being an antibacterial brand called CIDAL which is reassuring if nothing else.
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It seems to be impossible to buy replacement razor blades cartridges that only have two blades: they all seem to have four or five. The disposable Bic razors only have two blades, so you are left with the choice of wasting either the plastic in the disposable or the metal in the excessive number of blades.
i also use Cidal soap, which has the advantage of being almost unscented.
i also use Cidal soap, which has the advantage of being almost unscented.
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An item I remember well from my childhood is an open bar electric fire.
I started piano lessons around the end of WWII and we lived in a typical 3 bed semi to the SW of Manchester. We lived in the kitchen & back room with an open coal fire; and the piano was in the front room, and the only heating there was a one bar electric fire, with a cylindrical reflector. The heater plugged in to a socket in the hallway outside, and there was nothing more than a stiff wire keeping dressing gowns etc. off the open electric bar. In the winter I frequently needed mittens to allow my fingers to do some of the piano exercises.
I started piano lessons around the end of WWII and we lived in a typical 3 bed semi to the SW of Manchester. We lived in the kitchen & back room with an open coal fire; and the piano was in the front room, and the only heating there was a one bar electric fire, with a cylindrical reflector. The heater plugged in to a socket in the hallway outside, and there was nothing more than a stiff wire keeping dressing gowns etc. off the open electric bar. In the winter I frequently needed mittens to allow my fingers to do some of the piano exercises.
Those were mentioned up-thread.
eMeS
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My apologies for not doing a search.
No worries.
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Whoops! Freudian slip?
TheSel
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Playing a piano in mittens? Some skill, that!
Gloster
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Which reminds me of something that you still see, but I wish we didn’t: ice on the inside of the window.
I converted to a double edged safety razor a year or so ago. much cheaper and a really comfortable shave.
Yes, and scraping it off with a thumbnail. Then rushing downstairs as a kid to see dad still trying to draw the coal fire by holding a sheet of newspaper in front of it.....
I used to love watching my dad drawing the fire when I was a boy.
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Talking of coal fires, we used to have an open fire which used Glowco (not sure of the spelling) My mum used to use crumpled newspaper to light the kindling wood to light the coke. Usually this was OK but about that time the newspapers started coloured pages, which, when removed from the bulk of the paper were 4 pages which were covered in ink and completely different from all the other sheets. The issue was, that for some reason, the coloured sheets just didn't burn the same way as the plain ones and caused issues starting the fire. Try is I might to explain to my mum that she shouldn't use the coloured sheets, it fell on deaf ears.
Not in my household it’s not!
I remember my grandparents having a wall-mounted can opener. I'm seriously considering getting one for myself as occasionally I can't manage a hand-held one.
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