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    Just wondering what ya'll are putting in your washrooms as hand soap? Liquid? Bar? Which brand? All natural? I just bought Dr. Bronner's liquid hand soap but I don't like how watery it is nor the brown color. So I will be returning it tomorrow. Shame as the ingredients seemed good.
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    I'm using the Dr. Bronner's liquid castile soap (multiple scents-all are good) for the hands and for the face. It is concentrated so I cut it 50/50 with water. Yea, it has a thin watery consistency but it lathers like a champ just the same. This stuff is very kind to the skin.
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    I got that liquid stuff they sell at Lowe's in the bags for the dispenser in the employee bathroom at work. It's a decent antibacterial soap and I like the Sea Salt one personally, a damn sight nicer than the generic stuff that comes in a bag in the rest of the bathrooms. At home I am currently using a bar of Pre De Provence Sage soap, it smells great and the sage bits in it make it a little exfoliating to boot.
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    Softsoap liquid soap

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    I use a bar soap in the bath room at home. Currently I have a L'Occitane soap and a Santa Maria Novella. Both were gifts. When those are finished up, it will be a couple of artisan soaps. One was a gift and one my wife bought at the farmer's market. Before B&B I just used liquid hand soap, but I happened to have these sitting around in the closet never getting used.

    In the kitchen, I use Dr Bronner's. (Also, when I go to the gym, I just a tiny bottle of Dr Bronner's for everything: hair, face, body.)
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    I use a big bar of L'Occitane soap. I've tried lots of different makes and they're my favourite.

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    I use Yardley English Lavender bar soap. I paid full price, $1.49, it smells great and lasts a long time. You can find them on sale for about a buck as well.

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    Did you buy the Bronners classic liquid castile soap or the shikakai soap? Unless the formula has changed, I recall the shikakai soap being pretty thick.

    Lately I've been using L'Occitane Lavender with Shea hand soap. It smells wonderful and leaves my hands feeling great.

    I recently picked up a bottle of Seventh Generation Lavender hand wash at Target for the guest bathroom. It too smells very nice.
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    I like to use Mama Bear's bath soaps, switching out the fragrance with each bar. Otherwise it's Soft Soap hand pumps.
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    Quote Originally Posted by xillion View Post
    Did you buy the Bronners classic liquid castile soap or the shikakai soap? Unless the formula has changed, I recall the shikakai soap being pretty thick.

    Lately I've been using L'Occitane Lavender with Shea hand soap. It smells wonderful and leaves my hands feeling great.

    I recently picked up a bottle of Seventh Generation Lavender hand wash at Target for the guest bathroom. It too smells very nice.
    I bought the shikaki soap and found it to be very thin.
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    I usually get a bunch of the scented hand soaps from B&BW when they are on sale. I really like their variety and they clean well. When they are not on sale and I run out, I buy softsoap from the supermarket
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    L'occitane Verbena liquid soap with Shea extract is by far the best one iīve used. I donīt use anything else here at home.

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    Lava soap or Dawn dish detergent

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    Ivory Bar soap the regular scent and I`m glad I bought a lot of the 4.5 oz size Ivory because they`ve shrunk it to 4 oz size now.

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    cheap glycerine soap i buy by the box in the caribbean. It also helps make uber lather so I always have a bar by my sink. it's brown, simple ingredients, cleans. jabon (soap) de cuaba

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    i never use anything with Triclosan. So that's all the anti-bacterial soaps. Two reasons...bacteria resistance and apparently it's outlawed in some countries because it produces chloraform????

    I like the Ivory natural liquid hand soap.

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    We have used liquid soaps at all of the sinks at our house partly because the kitchen and laundry room sinks have built in dispensers. We use it at the other sinks because it is not as messy looking. We like a variety of scents depending on the season. I am fond of Yardley lavender and other lavender scents.

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    I usually use a puck of Williams or Ivory.
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    Just picked up a 4.25 oz bar of Yardley London Lavender from Dollarama. Amazing scent and great price. Seems like a winner with it's minimal list of ingredients. Just to confirm these bars are made in the USA correct?
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