Yep!  Really, it's one of the few soaps that doesn't irritate my skin.

 

That's very ambitious!  The closest I come to something like that is when I take all my leftover soap chips and grate them and cook them with water to make cheap hand soaps!     Another obsession with my bar soaps is that I hate when the bar gets too small or too thin.  Heaven forbid!!   

 

Spicy,

 

While working with our budget person the other week (trying to get our division's books straight before end of year) I found out she makes her own bar soaps. She lives on a farmette, raises goats, and uses the goat's milk and natural oils and scents to make soaps. She's allergic to the scents and other chemicals in commercial soaps.

 

I'm a sucker for homemade, natural stuff, and my wife has skin problems too, so I ordered some and just picked it up the other day. I got one called Spring Rain that's just very delicately springy-scented, maybe mildly floral. But the texture just feels so nice and creamy I almost didn't give it to my wife. Also got a bar of what she calls Coffee Scrub, mostly unscented soap with coffee grounds in it, which is a more heavy-duty hand cleaner when you're really grubby.

 

The neat thing is, you can tell her almost any scent you'd like (within reason) and she can darn near match it with the oils she uses, but it doesn't affect the texture or quality of the soap.

 

She uses the same ingredients to make lip balms--got one called Orange Sherbet that smells good enough to eat, but again very delicately scented.

 

Oh yeah, your question...I use Target's store brand of moisturizing body wash now, mostly for convenience; before that I was a confirmed regular Zest user.

 

I probably should wash my own mouth out with soap for all the times I've used foul language since the last time I had to eat the Ivory.

 

Well, maybe I'll just go wash my fingertips with soap as punishment for typing foul words on my computer.  That should take care of the matter. 

 

 

 

"Aren't you glad you used DIAL?  Don't you wish EVERYBODY did?"      My Mom hates the smell of DIAL because she said she used to wash her dogs with it millions of years ago and she associates the perfume with wet dog fur. 

Thor - Ivory...bitter? Ahhhhh....think time may have fogged your memories; try again! Grab a bar, wiggle it around in the ol' mouth...take a big bite....mmmmmmmmmm!

 

Oh Pa...Ivory was so bitter!!  Then again, I have nothing to compare it to.  My mother used that stuff on my mouth because it was the cheapest soap in the house.  That's what I always assumed, anyway.

 

I once sprayed my mother's lemon-scented perfume in my mouth to see if it tasted like lemons.  Surprisingly, it did.