Shower Gel

Milton Brown and Inis with cheap stuff to clean my feet. I have plans to purchase L’Occitane after buying soap for my daughter and hiding it in my bedside drawer where I can still smell it occasionally.

Milton grrr

oh darn it, you know what I mean?

I'm on my second 400ml bottle of Maja which I love as an all over shower gel including my hair. So fresh with that reminder of Spain when I also used it there on holiday.

The only one I use, since I’m more of a soap person, is the Badedas 3 in 1 - shower gel, shampoo and conditioner, which I do really like. It’s very handy if I’m going away for a couple of nights. (Though not lately, obviously.)

Whatever is on offer ?
Usually a moisturising one

I love Molton Brown, and people know I love Molton Brown. Consequently I have enough to open a shop! Rosa Absolute is my favourite, with Vetiver and Grapefruit and Fiery Pink Peppercorn following closely. I used to really like Ginseng and Ginger but they don’t seem to do it anymore.

I can only use Nivea or Johnsons baby gel.

I used to buy Molton Brown which is so nice, and the little freebie bottles are great for guests.

During lockdown there arn’t guests and I have decided to use only soap in shower and handbasins, to reduce plastic. Dove soap is nice and I think is more moisturising than shower gel.

I used to use anything at all but over the last year have been using a Dove shower gel, it lasts ages, and is quite moisturizing, which is all I ask tbh. I use a natural sponge, which makes it go even further.

Using Molten Brown Bizarre Brandy at the moment.
Like Greyduster all my family buy it for me as they know I love it.
The shampoo and conditioner is also very good.
I also like Original Source Lime which is more refreshing after a hot summer day.

I used to love the Molton Brown ginseng too, but I’m now using Coastal cypress which has turned into a new favourite. I really like Jo Malone lime basil but it’s a bit pricey so drop hints to my daughters when it’s my birthday

I've ordered some L'Occitane verbena for myself, thought it might be invigorating and wake me up a bit.

However, I haven't opened it yet as I started using soap when I ran out.

SOAP! I hear you cry?
It's a very large tablet of Goat's Milk soap from some company in Somerset and it's lovely.

Like PollyDolly I use less plastic and buy bars of soap. My current favourite is good old Pears which is soothing and gives a great lather. Just lately I suffer from itchy skin/scalp and this doesn't upset it.

Soap for me. I don’t understand how you get properly clean with shower gel, which just seems to skate over the top of my skin.

I use bar soap as well. At the moment boring Palmolive. I was once given some L'Occitane, but it soon lost it’s fragrance and became very hard. I think bar soap is better with soft/ened water.

I’m another vote for soap. French natural Marseille soap. Really cheap, lasts for ages and so many fragrances.
“Fanny” anyone? (no really, it’s an option) Or unicorn. The organic donkey-milk is fab for your face. The company I get mine from sends them with no plastic whatsoever! Even the tape on the box is biodegradable paper tape.

I tend to use Dove shea butter shower gel and Opium shower gel when I want to indulge myself. I find Dove very thick and clings very well to my skin, I have to be very thorough rinsing it off otherwise it still clings to me when I get out of the shower and have to rinse my legs off again.

We used to have a huge block of Marseille olive oil soap - one of a few bought by a BiL when apparently the factory was about to close down. We cut it into ordinary size bars.
Lovely soap, nice lather, but alas all gone now.
Dh recently found some Greek pure olive oil soap online, so we now have a store of that.

I have one tablet of Cretan soap left, for some reason I had a soap buying spree well over 12 months ago before we were told to Wash our Hands

#FelicityForesight

I used to love Molton brown and started using it about 10 years ago. Family bought it for me for birthdays and Christmas, but not any more it’s recently gone down hill, it seems very watered down. Dil and sil both said the same.

St Kitt’s Herbery Rosemary and Bergamot shower gel.
It’s lovely.
I visit the Herbery each summer to stock up, when we are on holiday. It’s their best selling fragrance and I’ve found it in many bathrooms in Farmhouse B&B’s, cottages and hotels in Cornwall.

I use a Lidl moisturising gel for the shower - avocado I think it is. But I also use a scrunchy thing on a long handle to apply it which helps work it up into a nice long-lasting lather and the added bonus is that I can reach all my back and my feet with a lot less effort and groaning!

I shower with a puff thing and always used soap up until September last year. We were away in our caravan (yes we were lucky) and I had a sample shower gel in my washing bag. I decided to try and was surprised how soft it made my skin compared to the Dove soap I usually used. Since then I've been trying out just the gels
you can buy in the supermarket and I'm using a Radox one at the moment and like the smell. Also you can see when it is running down.

Mogsmaw, have you got a link for your soap? It sounds lovely!