I realize this does not seem like a nursing-related question, but our personal hygiene routines before and after work/school can have repercussions for us professionally.
My skin has the tendency to be dry and itchy due to longstanding hypothyroidism, and the problem is heightened in the winter. So, I strictly use liquid body wash four months out of the year from early November until early March. St. Ives Oatmeal & Shea Butter body wash soothes and moisturizes my itchy, dry skin.
From March through late October I switch mostly to bar soaps because my skin is not as dry and itchy during warmer weather. However, I still use liquid body wash on occasion. I use Tone Bath Bars with cocoa butter for the moisturizing properties. I also like Caress Daily Silkening body wash (white peach & silky orange blossom scent).
I absolutely DO NOT use antibacterial soaps when at home. I strictly use plain bar soaps and body washes to minimize the potential of resistance to microbes.
My friend made me some soap that was homemade. The soap was in the shape of a rectangle and the color of it was a pink color. It also smelled really nice. I used it on my hands and I absolutely loved it. I thought that it was the very best. I always love homemade soap that is made with love.
Have enough soaps stashed away in the bathroom linen cupboard to stock a (vintage) general store.
1- Lifebuoy. The old carbolic red stuff. Tried one bar and could feel my skin tightening up so that was that. Smell wise someone commented it reminded him of his "Gran". Apparently carbolic soap was the stuff de jour for UK households back then.
2- Savon de Morificeille. French soap in huge cubes. Picked up a ton from a store going out of business sale. Great stuff for everything from showering, face washing, babies, and even washing fine linens.
2. Johnson's Castile Baby Soap (vintage). Got large box of it at an estate sale or something. Not at all mild and leaves my skin dry and itchy. Cannot imagine using it on a baby.
3. Grandpa's Tar Soap. Love this stuff! Great in the summer or hot weather, especially after being outdoors and or eaten up by mosquitoes.
4. Various white "floating" soaps. Armour's, Ivory, etc... After Ivory invented floating soap everyone and their mother began copying. Find Ivory and others at various estate sales so pick them up. Find the older Ivory not a drying as modern incarnation, plus the scent takes me back.
5. Dove. Well because it is "one quarter moisturizing cream; it simply cannot dry your skin the way soap does...." Hahaha
Every now and then go through a period of not wanting to use "chemicals" to wash my face, so switch to Dove for awhile. The white unscented seems pretty mild and doesn't dry out my skin.
6. Caress. This stuff came out in the 1980's and nothing leaves your skin smoother after a bath or shower. Pick up vintage NOS when can find.
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My friend made me some soap that was homemade. The soap was in the shape of a rectangle and the color of it was a pink color. It also smelled really nice. I used it on my hands and I absolutely loved it. I thought that it was the very best. I always love homemade soap that is made with love.