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Lava soap... I haven't looked for it lately

but have some around that is not that old.

Lava soap is a pretty mildly abbrasive soap that is not bad for that whole skin-renewal business... don't know about the drying-out of the skin factor, but never noticed a problem with it in the past.

For real grungy-hand cleaning, I have always liked Boraxo--grainy enough it is almost like a hand-massage...

posted by Ciel on January 11, 2010 at 7:34 AM | link to this | reply

Two for one offers

lead the way for us every time!

posted by malcolm on January 8, 2010 at 10:16 AM | link to this | reply

Whacky

Your post got me curious Whacky, so I looked up 'Lava Soap' on eBay and a single bar was just sold in its original packaging for $13.00. Keep searching young lass. You could clean up - sorry.

posted by johnmacnab on January 7, 2010 at 2:02 PM | link to this | reply

The ad I really remember is from years ago, about toothpaste. "You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent." I can remember the jingle, too! How sad is that???

posted by Rockingrector_retd on January 7, 2010 at 9:59 AM | link to this | reply

I liked the dove ones. But due to asthma I need deodorant and smelly free, lol! sam

posted by sam444 on January 7, 2010 at 4:22 AM | link to this | reply

Hi Whacky!

It is scarey to think about but yes, what DO we use? Pure what? Oh well, Happy New Year, and keep up the pondering!

posted by KaBooM62 on January 6, 2010 at 12:36 AM | link to this | reply

Your whackiness...

Yes, they still make Lava, I have a bar on the utility sink and a liquid form in one of those dispenser jugs and if that doesn't do it, good old Go-Jo with pumice will peel your skin right off!

posted by food4thought on January 5, 2010 at 9:46 PM | link to this | reply

I am one of those that uses the bod washes

posted by Lanetay on January 5, 2010 at 9:36 PM | link to this | reply

Whackydotter & Bo

I like Irish Spring but Kabu gets us, uh, Dove I think. Blah

posted by WileyJohn on January 5, 2010 at 8:57 PM | link to this | reply

I used to love it when my mom would buy Lever 2000. I thought it smelled sooo good!

posted by Darson on January 5, 2010 at 8:24 PM | link to this | reply

' There’s a luncheonette in town that has a bottle of dish detergent in place of hand soap in the only restroom. They substitute paper towels with bath tissue. BC-A, Bill’s RLJst

posted by BC-A on January 5, 2010 at 5:31 PM | link to this | reply

I use Dove for sensitive skin...eveything else except the terribly

expensive Pharmacy ones just give me terrible rash and terrible hives. When things were rashioned after WW2 in Australia Mum could only get Lyle soap...harsh hard on the hands and body. Then she used pears much softer.

posted by Kabu on January 5, 2010 at 2:09 PM | link to this | reply

I remember those ads, Whacky! I love the dove moisture bars...only ones that don't dry me out!

posted by lovelyladymonk on January 5, 2010 at 2:04 PM | link to this | reply

If Ivory soap is 99.9% pure, LAVA is 100% pure LAVA SOAP, Silly!

Whacky,

I suspect that either soaps aren't profitable enough to advertise them very much now, or perhaps, other commodities are far more profitable, sells itself, needs only word of mouth advertising, (free) and so the savvy investors washed thier hands of the whole sudsy, soapy mess, and put their money into "Green," agricultural investments. Risky business!

I have been told that soap is a much safer investment, but it doesn't earn the nearly the same amount of profit. Guess there is always some kind of a trade-off, huh? Think that I'll just keep both my freedom and poverty, thank you.