I can’t stand having a slimy soap dish in the shower or at the sink. Dr Bronners peppermint Castile soap with a 5:1 water to soap mixture in a foaming type pump bottle is amazing. Been using the stuff for over 20 years.

My wife and I use either Dove go Fresh Body Bar or the Ivory Original Body Soap. She wants the least number of added oils and these two have it; especially the Ivory Original. We have never had a problem with skin dryness, but we do not live in a desert like area.

I grew up in a house with no AC, so during the summer months we would go to the river every evening for a bath. Ivory soap floats, so that’s what we used.
My wife now buys Lever2000 and it’s pretty good, but I still prefer Ivory when I’m doing the shopping.

Dove is good but lately I've been using Yardley Oatmeal soap. And also some high end soap I picked up in Taiwan - mugwort herb infused. It's pretty good but expensive and can't seem to find it here.

I can find packages of Dove and Irish Spring at the Flea Market. My favorite is Caress. Yeah I know, its for ladies but I dig that scent and I can burn through over 1/2 bar in 1 shower.

When I lived in the Upper Midwest, Alaska, and Alberta, I used to be a Dove bar soap guy, then Dove liquid soap guy, and then Dove for Men liquid guy.

After 7 years of living in Alaska and Alberta, my employer in its infinite wisdom moved me to Houston right before the 4th of July (i.e. just when the humidity gets real nasty and stays that way for until late September). I kept using the Dove for Men liquid and let's just leave it at in a humid environment the area covered by underwear is much better off if soap uses its volume for cleaning agents rather than moisturizers.

Switched to an Amazon best-selling body wash w/ tea tree and all is well. I just use Amazon Subscribe & Save and discounted bottles arrive every month. In first 18 months, Amazon dropped 3 brands from the subscribe & save program but so far the 4th brand, TheraTree, has remained in the subscribe & save program the last 18 months.

If you like Dove you should try making your own. I made a couple batches of soaps out of curiousity a few months back. I’m amazed. My skin has improved drastically and it wasn’t really terrible to begin with. They don’t smell as nice, which is unfortunate but they sure clean well and my skin is much healthier. It’s almost too soft!

Lave or Simple Green for me

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Grew up using Octagon ,then procter and gamble moved to mexico with this brand.Mexico screwed it up and it stinks like an outhouse.
I sure miss it and have to use home made soaps from venders that use lye in their blends.
Octagon really worked great while hunting,no smell and I have had Deer walk right up on me ,so close I close spit my red man on them.

Dial or Irish Spring for me. Dove leaves me with a greasy feeling.

Duke Cannon Big Ass Beer Soap. Somebody gave it to me as a joke, but I like it.

Irish Spring for my hair/head and Dove Shea butter for my old and dry body.

Manly men use Lava bar soap.

My dermatologist highly recommends dove. I have plaque psoriasis and the dove soap is the best one for my skin.

The regular dove works much better for me than the men's dove.

Mike

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Originally posted by berto:
I use the Costco knockoff.

Yessir. It hardly has a scent to it

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Originally posted by SgtGold:
Dial or Irish Spring for me. Dove leaves me with a greasy feeling.

Same with me. My wife uses Dove, and the times I have used it, just leaves me with an oily feeling as well. I have been a Dial user for decades. Especially in my new home, I like the feeling of soap, not a moisturizer.

Kirk's Castile or handmade Amish soap.

Kirks Castille is nifty. My favorite was this sheeps milk soap in Austria, with hay in it. Only one that didn't dry my hands.

Dove works well for softening pine tar. Nothing else worked as well, including Lava. (In the long, long ago I competed in Strongman. Pine Tar Tacky was used on stones.)

It used to be Irish Spring for me until the dermatologist recommended Dove after I got eczema during a winter about 9 years ago. It did take me a while to get used to that oily feeling after taking a shower. I now rotate between Dove for Men and the Costco brand one. I may be wrong but I don't think the one for men is a creamy as the regular Dove.