I review soap

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Suggesting it cuz it's real nice and you also said you couldn't really afford fancy soaps. You can find Yardly at the dollar store! And it's still super nice!

My personal thoughts:super soft, smells good,v gets the job done, gentle on sensitive skin

so I do not have much experience with glycerin soaps, but I know that Zum has a grapefruit bar if he's willing to try a goatmilk soap. it's a little pricy for soap, but Zum makes a pretty good product

games shouldn't cost $70, and they especially shouldn't claim to only be 40 gigs of storage before suddenly becoming 150 gigs right before launch. I did not purchase nor play the 2022 MW2 game, and I will not play it

I've thought about this question a lot

I think it changes from person to person. some people don't give soap a lot of meaning, and that's fair! Soap is maybe just a normal part of routines, just used to shower quickly or wash hands and then they don't think about soap for the rest of the day. That's what soap was for me for a while

But I've also thought about soap differently. There's a ritual to cleaning, a stronger purpose to it. Washing away dirt and grime can have a distinct psychological benefit, it can really turn around your whole mood

In 2018 I went on a field study that had my camping a lot without access to showers. After the second week, I went to a hotel and finally got to shower and it was such an incredible experience to be able to wipe away all the sweat and filth from a very rainy two weeks. A true mood change.

I remember hearing about this soap first in a tumblr post years ago about some bizarre soap that could be used in a dozen different ways depending on how you use it. However, I only used it for one purpose: as shower soap.

While visiting my family for the holidays, my dad told me that he had gotten me an Airbnb nearby his apartment. That way, my girlfriend and I wouldn't be sharing the couch with two rambunctious dogs. My girlfriend and I are very grateful for this, as we appreciate having our own space like this.

When we arrived yesterday, I took a look in the bathroom and noticed that the hand soap, the shampoo, the conditioner, and the body wash are all the same brand: Public Goods.

(I'm only including the one picture, because it's all you really need. All the other bottles are basically the same, but instead of saying Hand Soap, they say Shampoo, Conditioner, or Body Wash.)

First things first, I have to admit that the graphic design of the bottle does nothing to endear me to the soap. I'm not a huge fan of minimalist design. I think it's boring. I like clutter. I like when there's a bunch of little stuff on bottles. I think bottle's should have word searches and crosswords goddammit. This bottle has the brand, the type of soap, the volume, the slogan "It's all good", and nothing else. Where's the pizazz? Where's the fun? It's gone.

Hand Soap

Anyway, onto the soap itself. Despite the first impression, the hand soap is actually pretty solid. I don't mean in terms of matter. It is a liquid, don't worry. I mean that it does the job well. It doesn't really lather well, which is disappointing, but it doesn't clump up at all, it spreads easily, and it wipes away grime. It works! A good sign for soap. Not much to say for the smell though. It's pretty inoffensive, subtle, standard soap stuff.

7/10

Shampoo

Not gonna lie. It was pretty disappointing. Felt like I was just using the hand soap on my hair. It didn't lather, which is like the one thing I expect shampoo to do? There's gotta be suds in there, otherwise it's no fun. I even went and grabbed an extra squirt to see if maybe I could rub more in, and all I got was disappointment. Anyway, it's fine otherwise. Smells pretty nice, but again not like anything in particular. That's it. Also it pretty effectively killed my curls, but that's normal for shampoo. It's why I only really shampoo once or twice a week.

5/10

Conditioner

I didn't use the conditioner. I have curly hair and use a specific conditioner for it, recommended to me by my sister who went to beauty school and knows these things. I didn't want to completely kill my curls, so I just used that.

?/10

Body Wash

At first, I was optimistic. It came out of the bottle thick, which is great for a body wash. Smelled nice. Was a different texture than the shampoo and hand soap. Fantastic. Pretty quickly though, I became disappointed. I don't know if it's the brand or if whoever owns the Airbnb did this, but it honest to god seemed whatever down. Just fell right off like sauce off of penne lisce, the worst pasta noodle. I guess I'm clean, so that worked, but it was genuinely disappointing.

4/10 (Again, it might've been the owners who watered down the soap though, so if Public Goods wants to send me fresh bottle, they can DM me and I'll update the review.)

Summary

Public Goods seems to me to be a decent company. They talk a lot about environmentalism and sustainable practices, which I hold to be a very important topic. I hope what they say is true. But what it says on the soap bottles does not seem to be.

"It's all good" the soap bottles say, right near the bottom, in tiny print. I would say it's more like "it's fine" or "it works" because those are technically true.