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Xarpho's Return

Xarpho's Return

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So I wanted to start this thread off by saying that until 2022 I was a lifelong user of Irish Spring ever since I graduated from the bubble bath, but then they changed their formula and I was forced to switch soaps, eventually (after Safeguard and Palmolive) to Coast, an acceptable alternative. It's deodorant soap like IS and smelled a bit like the soap my grandfather used to use.

However, I sometimes switch it up with other brands. When I get some Lava soap I use that. The grit feels great especially if I've been outside and have insect bites.

More recently I bought some Dr. Squatch (very expensive). Pine Tar wasn't as gritty as Lava but the pitch-black soap is...interesting.

I've also used beer soap but I don't like the old beer smell (I used to work in a brewery, briefly).
 
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I have had to switch soaps multiple times over the years. I was using Lever 2000 in the late 90's and early 2000's till they started putting vitamin E in it which is basically just oil. I am not a nigger, and I don't need my skin to be that oily. I used this other soap, but I can't remember the name. I used it for years after ditching Lever 2000. Around the mid to late 2000's I had to stop using it because they changed the stuff they put in the soap. They added this really powerful fragrance and put these weird blue particles in the soap. It ended giving me a pretty nasty rash on the back of my left leg, so I stopped using it. I switched over to Ivory and that's all I have used since.
 
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Xarpho's Return said:
So I wanted to start this thread off by saying that until 2022 I was a lifelong user of Irish Spring ever since I graduated from the bubble bath, but then they changed their formula and I was forced to switch soaps, eventually (after Safeguard and Palmolive) to Coast, an acceptable alternative. It's deodorant soap like IS and smelled a bit like the soap my grandfather used to use.
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What exactly about their formula did you not agree with?

Also… any opinions on body wash?
Is it a scam or is there a good moisturizing and smell-good answer to the BO-Q?
 
Day of the Cope said:
Personally, I prefer Dove Deep Moisture which you can often find at Costco in a three pack. I would avoid anything with scents and especially anything with "exfoliating beads" which are microplastics.
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I’ll keep my eye out; my skin gets all cracked and shit so this might be the thing
 
FailurePersonifiedV2 said:
Any recs?
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Dove is unironically probably the best drug store brand out there. You'd be hard pressed to find something better at the supermarket. If you're particularly sensitive, you can get the unscented, which I tend to get anyway. Outside of that, the only thing that might give you some issues is that most Dove products use sodium laureth sulfate, which, despite sulfates getting a bad name, isn't a problem unless you're specifically sensitive to it, which is rare. A lot of stuff is marketed as "sulfate free" which is a meme in 90% of cases, because the only products that you might actually want to remove SLS from is shampoos and conditioners, in body washes it doesn't cause any problems. In fact, for dry skin specifically, SLS will very likely help due to how emulsions work and other fuckery I can't be bothered to go into.
Day of the Cope said:
"exfoliating beads" which are microplastics.
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That stuff is banned now, fyi. As an aside, this is going to sound faggy, but the best exfoliating face wash I've found recently is some Burt's Bees shit which uses ground up peach pits for the grit.
 
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Within the last few years I took the same approach to soaps as my food. If the ingredient list is too long or full of obscure shit I don't think I need like petrol adjacent shit I avoid it. Right now I buy traditionally made unscented lye soaps. That squatch stuff looked okay ingredient wise but I don't care for the scents available in my local stores and the price is too high.
 
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This is by far the best soap I have ever used. It's not rough on my hands in the slightest and it's got a very nice spearmint scent to it.
It somehow manages to get all sorts of paint off of my hands without drying out or irritating my skin.
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I like the big bars from dollar tree. I can't remember the brand for the life of me, i believe its YARDLEY, but it comes in lemon, charcoal, and some other weird but decent scent. I have eczema on my shoulders and these really help it.


Also, I like using cinnamon Burmani, and rosemary oils on my beard and hair. The cinnamon burns like fucking hell after a hot shower, it wake me up better than coffee!!
 
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