Ask Lemmy
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, toxicity and dog-whistling are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !uspolitics@lemmy.world
7) No Hit-and-Run questions.
Please don't delete your post for no apparent reason. If you plan on deleting a question later, say so in the post, or if you feel that you have a good reason to remove it, message a mod beforehand. It's not fair to the ones who took their time to answer, and it's not in the spirit of the community.
8) No Bots.
Posts or comments from bots, LLM's, AIs, Neural Networks, Transformers, or Marvin the Paranoid Android are not welcome in AskLemmy. Real humans only please.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
view the rest of the comments
If you don't want ridiculous amount of goddamn perfume in it, you pretty much need to.
IDK if these manufacturers don't have olfactory senses in their QC departments, but it's getting stupid how much more scent is being added. I had a Costco brick of Irish Spring soaps I'd been whittling away at and bought another one recently. I couldn't even stand having the new one in the house, I tossed it because it stank so much, even through the door of the bathroom cabinet. I still have a couple left from the old brick and they're manageable but now I'm going to have to find something else.
Maybe I need to look into making it, too.
For what it's worth, my intuition tells me the soap market in my country is currently heavily geared towards women and even more towards a niche within the general population of women that go into the extreme girly style.
Most soaps are incredibly sweet scented, heavy on flowers and fruits. This leaves men's soap, my case, to become a very narrow market. Men's market is currently covered by the big brands - Axe, Old Spice, etc -through their "active/sports/urban" lines of body wash that usually smell like cars or floor disinfectant covered with a layer of cheap, strong, short lasting perfume.
Not my thing.
You can buy glycerin soap for soap crafters and just use it without adding in the perfumes.
Dial, Dove, and Ivory all sell unscented varieties of bar soap.
I'm not a Costco shopper, but the Costco website suggests they carry only an extremely limited variety of bath soaps. Way more choices at your average grocery store, drug store, etc.