Cracked soap.

I would move it from the bathroom sink but it is almost new, and my other ones are lavender, Raspberry and Chanel No 5.
Going to try scraping and soaking in warm water see if I can salvage it.
The Chanel one was moved when a male friend went back to work after a lunch here and got a lot of teasing from colleagues. Luckily his wife was also at the lunch !!!!

I watched programme quite recently in which a scientist, from somewhere in Oxford, said it's the water which causes bacteria to pop and die. Perhaps not the exact words she used, but that's what she meant. It doesn't have to be hot water either. Perhaps we use soap because it smells nice and softens the skin, but not absolutely necessary according to her.

Most of the soaps mentioned contained palm oil. Does no one care?

I gave up using soap in bathroom basin because it always cracked and got dirty looking. I now use liquid soap dispenser - even if less environmentally friendly. I use soap in shower, not bodywash in plastic bottles, most of which goes down the drain! Somehow that soap doesn't seem to crack - maybe because it's always in humid environment of shower.

yeh,,, the Nivea and Chanel may have palm oil the Lavandé and the Framboise do not.

Ginny24 soap doesn't kill bacteria. It works by loosening the germs from the skin and they then get washed off when you rinse your hands with water.

Yehbutnobut the palm oil issue isn't as simple as that. Palm oil is actually a very good crop. No other plant produces as much oil. The problem lies with whether or not it is sustainably grown, not the oil itself. There's a lot about it online.

I second using the liquid soap, I have a few soap dispensers in my bathroom.

Bars of soap harbour bacteria and soap in bottles providing tops are clean and is in date are safer from health infection protocols. As a district nurse I was not allowed to use bars of soap in patient's houses. If no hand gel was available we had small bottles of sanitising gel to use.