slo’s THURSDAY 6/13 poll - Scented Hand Soaps

[soccerdad72]

We have a few foamy soaps, but our new go to has been a local shop near our lake house that makes great smelling bar soaps. Our favorite right now is a honey biscotti soap they make.

 

[MIGrandma]

Love scented soaps. Use a lot of the Bath and Body Works foaming hand soaps. Also a big fan of Beekman 1802 scented soaps and lotions/body creams. Current favorites of theirs are Lilac Dream and Sunshine Lemon.

 

[lovin'fl]

I have Bath and Body Works foaming hand soaps always. In guest bath and kitchen.

 

[Tink-osophy]

I like the convenience of liquid hand soap, but I don't like the strong artificial fragrance of most of them. I do love more natural fragrances, but they're not so easy to find/more expensive.

Funnily enough, I am thinking of changing over to bar soaps, anyway.

 

[disneychrista]

I too am very scent sensitive. I can’t do anything floral. I can do limited fruity scents but generally try to do unscented for as much as possible.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I love good fragrances-I buy a bunch of the foaming hand soaps from Bath and Body when they're on sale, and use them in the upstairs bathroom I share with my cousin. I'm not choosy about the scents; I love most of them. There's a new B&BW opening up right next door to the supermarket I go to, so I could be in big trouble. I don't buy their candles, but I'm a big fan of their soaps and body sprays.

 

[KPeterso]

I like the scented soaps a lot but I have a serious skin allergy to certain scent enhancers and it is just safer for me to skip all of them. I don't need more rashes and hives all over my body or hands.

 

[1420Elexismc]

I use the softsoap(or generic version) of the milk and honey in our house. I don't think I've bought a different scent in at least 10 years

 

[unrequited23]

The best part of a scented soap is that you know if your kids washed their hands after using the bathroom. You just send them back in there to wash. No asking if they remembered and watching them decide how they should answer. It really adds to the moms seem to know everything mystique.

 

[Diznygrl]

I love them but can't use them on a regular basis. Not because of the smell, but because of my eczema. Most of the fun, nice smelling soaps like B&BW have all the other chemicals like sodium laurel sulfate that irritate my hands and can trigger a flare up if I use them too much, so mostly I have to stick to plain, all natural unscented soap. Hnng, boring! Fortunately B&BW has other products with the same scents so I can still get my smelly fix!

My favorites are the three "F"s...Fresh, Fruity, and Floral! Generally I don't care for the heavy dessert-like scents, and anything with vanilla is usually a big turnoff.

 

[AppleDumpling]

My favorite brand is Mrs. Meyer’s. I buy it in the large refill size, in a variety of scents.

 

[huggybuff]

Somehow I stumbled onto a company online, named Margot Elena. They make bar soaps, shower gels, hand cremes, etc. The scents are quite distinctive. Now I get the subscription box 4 times a year.

 

[tazdev3225]

I love Bath and Body Works Soaps and am always getting them. I have an outlet near me so I get whatever I can find and it really helps when I get a discount coupon from them. My husband likes the foaming scents too. I don't like bar soaps as it makes the sink too messy.

 

[fla4fun]

Well, I use whatever is on sale. If I run out before the next sale, I use bar soaps from my hotel stay stash. I usually go for unscented or lightly scented if I have the choice. At the kitchen sink I just use a little of the dishwashing liquid.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Amazing to see all the B&BW users here. We used to use the liquid hand soap, probably the Softsoap brand most of the time. It seemed good in its day but in more recent years always felt kind of slimy what with the foaming hand soaps becoming more prevalent in many public restrooms. At one visit to Vince's house, his wife asked me if I would like to have a B&BW foaming hand soap with a scent she did not like. I smelled it, liked it and took it home.

That was it. Have been getting them ever since, several years now, i wait for the best sales, go online and order 12-15/18 bottles, all different scents The soaps are great, the scents are always nice, different ones every couple weeks Amazing how many scents they have.

 

[huggybuff]

Call me Debbie Downer, but now that I've learned that Les Wexner founded B&BW, I just can't with them anymore. I had zero idea until I watched the Victoria's Secret documentary on Hulu what that guy was up to with Epstein back in the day.

 

[Tink-osophy]

Can you get Ecover products in the US? I find their liquid hand soaps gentle in terms of fragrance and on skin. They have 2 (that I have found) - orange and lavender.

 

[Skywalker3]

We usually just buy the huge refill for handsoap, but every once in a while. we'll splurge and get something scented, and I do enjoy them.
i'm trying to use up ALL these old bars of soap that have collected over many years, from traveling (we have way too many Disney soaps.....)

 

[mumto3girls]

I love scented soaps. I like Bath and Body Works, but use others too. I am particularly partial to lavender and generally like “clean” scents like clean cotton or linen along with some florals/herbs and trees (always some kind of evergreen at Christmas). I avoid the baked good scents—those just make me want to eat whatever I am smelling. No thanks.

 

[Toolulu22]

Another fan of the Bath and Body Works Foaming Hand Wash. Our favorite scents are out now - Pink Peach Blossom and Strawberry. They discontinued the strawberry we liked, so I’m hoping the new version “Strawberry Pound Cake” is more fruit than cake. Sales are on, I have to order! I also like the Gingham scent for Wallflowers. I have a few sinks in my science classroom and I always need extra soap, sanitizer, and room scent too.