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Soap or body wash
  • PurpleFlowersPurpleFlowers
    Posts: 5,629Member
    Do you use soap or body wash? Do you have a favorite brand or scent?
    I was using Dove soap forever and I just switched to Suave body wash in a fruity smell. I like it :)
    Stay away from my chocolate and nobody gets hurt!

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  • MaryPoppins25
    Posts: 1,686Member
    Soap on the sensitive or dirty parts, so feet, pits, and lady junk get soap and body wash everywhere else. I am using this one I got a shoppers and it smells just like chocolate. I top that with the matching body lotion and I'm as yummy as a hot chocolate on a cold winter night c:
  • unforgivenunforgiven
    Posts: 12,700Confessional Manager
    I use body wash wash.. I used the white Caress for a long time but I can't find it anymore so I started using the pink one but then I saw Suave Ocean Breeze and that's pretty nice. I like the oceany type stuff but sometimes I get something else just to shake things up a bit.  :D

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    What sounds like thunder is a comforting voice
    When what is beautiful looks broken and crushed
    And I say I don't know you
    But you say it's finished"
  • chaosmomchaosmom
    Posts: 3,846Member
    I use Body Essence Tea Tree Oil body wash everywhere but my lady bits. For that, I use Vagisil PH Balance wash. Neither have a "smell" except just smelling clean. I have really sensitive skin so I have to be very careful about the scents.
  • shadylaneshadylane
    Posts: 3,037Member
    I usually use body wash but I do like dove soap. Right now I have suave eternal sunshine, it smells so good. The olay body washes are really good, super moisturizing. I like the mineral shimmer ribbons one. I like vs and bath & body but I only get those for christmas
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  • jezebeldelilahjezebeldelilah
    Posts: 337Member
    I use body wash. Dr.Bronners all over lavender wash. Also their pure castille soap in peppermint is amazing. With the lotions to match.
  • MegsueMegsue
    Posts: 1,848Member
    I use body wash. Right now it's Caress Thai something-something. I have no brand or scent loyalty. When I need a new bottle I sniff all the ones that are on sale and pick my favorite.
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  • deviltwinsmommadeviltwinsmomma
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    i use both soap first then body wash. dove soap then nieva happiness i think that what its called. it's fucking hot in texas so BO is on the rise, so i double up on soap, body wash, and secert deodorant. I always zombied in the morning. its a fucking miracle i dont hurt myself showering in the morning.
    my mother used to sing me a song. It went like this: "Life is short, life is shit, and soon it will be over.
  • sunnymommasunnymomma
    Posts: 2,243Member
    body wash, what ever I happen to have in the house. My Nana buys me some for christmas and my birthday, I usually have to buy one bottle a year.
    “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
    ― John Lennon
  • BeachyBeachy
    Posts: 3,915Member
    I love the cucumber scented Dove soap. Smells so good! I use that and the Aveeno face wash. But @mammateeroll can you share your face scrub recipe? Thanks doll.
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  • regpregp
    Posts: 1,018Member
    Bath & Body Works - Japanese Cherry Blossom. Best scent ever.
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  • Charlotte_SometimesCharlotte_Sometimes
    Posts: 1,756Member
    I am using Dr Bronner's lavender castile soap, diluted, as a body wash.  I did it once when out of our usual and it works well so I kept using it.  It is one of the few things in this world that doesn't make DS14 feel like he's pouring acid on his skin when he bathes.  He has skin issues, I have very sensitive skin (everything itches me) and the Dr Bronner's has been great.

    thanks @MammaTeeRoll   I usually use just honey, sugar, and maybe some vanilla but I will try the other ingredients for DS14's acne.
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    In order to be learned"

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  • chaosmomchaosmom
    Posts: 3,846Member
    @mamateeroll, does the tea tree oil replace the olive oil? And the green tea & chammomile...does that go in a scrub also or just by itself or what? I have to help ds13 get a handle on his acne.
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  • DemandaDemanda
    Posts: 4,470Member
    I am a body wash whore.  My current rotation consists of La Vanila Coconut and some almond kind from Italy.  I don't dig bar soap, but in the summer when I shower a few times a day I usually use a tea tree oil bar for one of them.
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  • episcopal
    Posts: 1,402Member
    Definitely soap.  In an effort to get everywhere, I always feel like I'm using WAY too much body wash.
  • Charlotte_SometimesCharlotte_Sometimes
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    episcopal said:

    Definitely soap.  In an effort to get everywhere, I always feel like I'm using WAY too much body wash.



    You have to use a scrubby / bath pouf thing.  My DW always confuses terms and calls them "squeegees" and cracks me the hell up.  But yeah, with one of these and you only need a dollop of body wash because then it creates a ton of lathery goodness:

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    And NOT one of these ;)

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    In order to be learned"

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  • nessamommynessamommy
    Posts: 671Member
    I Use body wash. Currently I'm stuck on Caress I believe it's honey and almond.

    I'm that weird lady smelling all of the body washes in the aisle. Dh usually takes off to the electronics bc I take like 1/2 hour in that aisle. Longer in bath and body works!
    If life gives you lemons, squirt lemon juice in life's eye!
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  • LoveLove
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    Oil of Olay Silk Whimsy body wash. This is only thing I am adamant about buying name brand. I love almond oil!!!

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  • meandmy243meandmy243
    Posts: 6,333Member
    i use olay quench.. super dry skin... except my face i use olay clean something or another.. its in a blue bottle...
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  • episcopal
    Posts: 1,402Member
    Thanks, @Charlotte_Sometimes!  That was hilarious. 
  • OxiMOMOxiMOM
    Posts: 3,028Member
    We use body wash.  DH was a Bar soap man  Irish spring when he moved in  I promptly put a stop to that.   Bar soap doubles the amount of soap scum left in the shower !!!  When I moved in my shower/tub was CAKED with soap scum/hard water residue.   It honestly took me  a  MONTH of scrubbing weekly with CLR to cut through it all  I could literally  scrape chunks off the tub...  I assume the people before me never cleaned the tub/shower (um eww)  I clean it once every two weeks now  but  i refuse to have bar soap in my house  because i have soap scum nightmares.   I use whatever body wash i can find cheap that i like the smell of.... DH every once in a blue moon buys me bath and body works  and i use that  when i have it  moonlit path or something like that is my favorite. 
  • AutumnAutumn
    Posts: 898Member

    I always have Bath and Body Works body wash & lotion, but it's because that's all I get for my birthday, Valentine's Day, Christmas, etc..  I think Sweet Pea will always be my favorite scent, but lately I am in love with Forever Sunshine.  And as @Charlotte_Sometimes said, you have to have a loofah!  :)

    @OxiMOM I hear you on the soap scum!  DF decided to switch to Dove bars because he goes through body wash so quickly, but now there's soap scum all over the tub that I have to clean off before I give Bubby his bath.

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