...over the years having tried various shower gels I’m getting bored of the Doves,lynx, nivias etc once tried Ted Baker gel which was overpriced lynx.
What do you recommend? One that stays smelling nice on your skin for at least a few hours ???
£5- £15 budget
Thanks in advance
15 quid shower gel ? Does it come in a 20l drum ?
Bar soap at home here.
Original Source Mint + Tea Tree
Don't think I've ever spent more than £2 on shower gel!
Original Source Mint + Tea Tree
+1
You're chasing a dream from the 70s and 80s when perfumes contained lots of lovely stuff like synthetic musks, which made them substantive on the skin. Nowadays all the good raw materials have been outlawed by various 'elf 'n safety bods, most notably IFRA and RIFM, meaning well-loved smells like Brut, Imperial Leather and so on have been emasculated. Have you tried Imperial leather soap recently? It's a shadow of its former smell.
If we could go back to the pre-paranoia days and smell old classics like Miss Dior as they were when first launched our noses would be blown apart because we simply aren't accustomed to smelling those lovely molecules in our environment any more. Why do you think perfumes nowadays are so wishy-washy and vaguely fruity?
Enjoy this voyage of discovery...
Lynx Coconut & Black Pepper. About 99p in Lidl. £5-£15! WTF are you on!? 😆
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ever since we put a softener in a few years ago, I can do soap again. Feels so much better to me.
Currently using this https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00L373R7W for that old school smokey "kill everything" vibe.
Big bars. Last ages.
i do have some mancave cedarwood stuff, but it's just not as good as soap
Have to admit when I was younger (before kids, mortgage and retirement planning) I used to spend a fortune on stuff like this - Terre De Hermes being the day to day shower gel and Creed for nights out.
What a waste of money! Mrs W laughs about it how I'm now looking at the £1 offers shower gels and 10 years ago I thought nothing about spending £80 on a bottle.
Now, what ever Source or Lynx shower gels are on offer.
Found you this one on ebay - should do the job, but it's a few quid over your budget. Wanting a whole shower for 15 quid is a shade ambitious. 🙂
Original sauce mint as above
Original sauce mint
With redcurrant jelly conditioner.
Ask Tomhoward what he uses. Someone who spends £6579.50 on brakes should be in the know 😉
I've given up gel because of the plastic, gone back to soap. But OS Mint + Tea Tree was the favourite - now only £1 in Sainsbury's, so well within budget.
Don’t think I’ve ever spent more than £2 on shower gel!
Poundland is your friend - if you are lucky, you can get the bottles that are '100% free' too.
johndoh encouraging shoplifting there 🤔
Original source lemon for me
Original Source Mint + Tea Tree
Bought in bulk from amazon
15 quid shower gel ? Does it come in a 20l drum ?
5 quid shower gel. Does it come in a 20l drum? 😳
Get your hedge cut.
okay okay - I'm well out of touch here i was thinking the expensive brands did their own stuff like boss, calvin Klein etc and would have that everlasting smell,
I take back the amount then, so recommendations are good
Don't like
Lynx
tea tree stuff
Don’t like
Lynx
They do about 30 different ones, you can't've tried them all 😉
How about 'Artisan crafted soaps and skincare. Always palm oil and preservative free' from here: Blue lemon
£15 for shower gel? Perhaps that's why some folk can't afford big houses 🙂
Lynx Coconut & Black Pepper
As a starter or a dessert? Where do you get farmed lynx in this country anyway?
In the spirit of reducing the amount of plastic we use, we now have a bar of soap in the shower. It works perfectly, you know, like it always did, before we all (and I include myself) were convinced by excellent marketing that shower gel was a thing.
Yes, shower gel gets washed down the drain unless you use it on a sponge. You can't beat a good lather with a proper bar of soap.
we now have a bar of soap in the shower. It works perfectly, you know, like it always did
I remember 3 soaps from BG (Before gel) - Lifebouy (stank), Imperial Leather (stanks worse) and Dove (hmm, was ok I think). I much prefer shower gel to any of those! Oh and novelty soap-on-a-rope at Christmas - Sort of flesh-pink coloured, totally dried your skin out. Yeuch.
Fake Original Source style from Aldi. 80p. Lime, mint, mango, lemon, whatever.
£5 for a shower gel? Money down the drain.
Sex Panther.
It has real panther in it.
Lordy - if it's over a £1 I think I've been robbed! 🙂
As above, soap for us. Just finishing off some Sandalwood soap Soap. The three bars of soap have lasted months
It has real panther in it.
Perchy, what have you done in this shower gel? Yeeeeuch.
Wash & Go £1 a bottle
Not strictly a gel but shampoo + conditioner and all you'll ever need
By the way I read somewhere, might have been on here, that the brands make 2/3 of their profit on the plazzy bottle and 1/3 on the content.
Perchy, what have you done in this shower gel? Yeeeeuch.
He's spreading the love.
Fairy liquid gives excellent results and really helps remove 'stubborn deposits'. Cheaper than Lynx too.
Pomegranate and honeysuckle though, not original. I'm not a total heathen.
at nearly £5 this is almost in-budget..
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009P2745I/ref=oh_aui_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I just use it on pits (original sauce elsewhere) - I can't really figure out if it helps stop me being stinky, but maybe it does
Shower gel is a massive waste of plastic.
When I realised this I bought a soap dish and am trying out lots of soaps to find one I like.
sorry what do you get for 15 quid shower gel.
I’ve given up gel because of the plastic, gone back to soap
Which arrives wrapped in non reusable, non recyclable plastic film and or plastic coated paper?
OP, the other source gels are pretty good in terms of range, the scents of the coconut and raspberry flavours do last a while which is slightly annoying as I rather like the smell, just not smelling of them.
Smelling of not-dainty things really tends to suggest you've squaddie showered, and are covering over a dirty smell instead. Shower gel should smell nice when you use it and dissipate quickly leaving you smelling clean. For a lasting smell use unfragranced soap which smells soapy and clean.
Serious recommendation:
Uproar
Start up business from my brother in law, available on Asos. Posh shower gels and other gents toiletries, sold in metal bottles!
shower gel gets washed down the drain unless you use it on a sponge
I disagree. I rub shower gel on my body, I don't squirt it down the plug hole.
available on Asos. <-- autocorrect, I presume
A bit over your budget but it comes with "utensils" for cleaning out cracks and crevices and i imagine the two pronged brush thingy would work wonders on stubborn clag nuts
Original Source Mint + Tea Tree
Yep, works for me - £1 a bottle if you pick your moment when it is reduced (or buy it in home bargains)
£15 on Shower Gel - does it have little flakes of gold in it like Goldschlager?
Uproar - sold in metal bottles...
...with a non recyclable plastic pump! 🙂
Dove soap. Cheap and does what it’s supposed to.
Honey I Washed the Kids from Lush for holidays or when feeling extravagant.
Mancave Cedarwood stuff is £2 at Tesco.
It's nice.
I have gone the soap route too. It last much longer than shower gel and less waste.
I got some stuff from a soap shop in Whitby last year and it smells amazing. Shame I cannot remember either the shop name or what the soap was. Thats a pretty good recommendation....
I tried this and liked it, for a fiver - https://www.marksandspencer.com/hair-and-body-wash-200ml/p/p22500760
But I like the idea of nice, modern soaps that can arrive with no/little packaging?
Bulldog do a good range of shower gel, 1/2 litre for £4.50.
https://www.bulldogskincare.com/shop/bodycare/filter/shower_gel/
I like the ones you get with aftershave sets at Christmas.
They smell really nice and are usually the same price as it would be if you just bought the aftershave on its own. As its 'going out Friday night' I'm currently soaping my bits with Dior Savage.
Day to day though... whatever's a quid.
You can buy soaps without packaging, for example:
https://www.dolphinfitness.co.uk/en/faith-in-nature-coconut-soap-pack-of-18/140897
Right hand side of page are more varieties, you need to scroll through.
Alternatively buy 5 litres of body wash:
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I'm game for a move to soap.
I like the old body shop fragrance in brown packaging that was quite woody/smoky, but I can't remember the name.
Suggest me a nice soap.
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Soap.
soap...quite woody/smoky,
have a look at the birch soap I suggested on the other page. That's smokey!
If you must Clinique for men shower gel is nice it used to be about £18 a (small) bottle. No 7 for men is about £8 and it pretty much the same.
But it's all bollox, I use Sanex which cheap and doesn't smell anything.
I use Hydromol, it sells faintly of a sort of oily plastic and blocks drains. It’s not great unless your skin is shit.
The only time ive ever bought shower gel that was in that budget it came on prescription!
And I object to paying £8.80 for a piddly 120ml bottle that lasts about 4 washes as it has to be put on dry 20min before a shower. Tried to source the same stuff from the vets.......
Cheapest soap without colouring or fragrances added, which just irritate your skin.
I work away and stay in hotels a lot so just 'borrow' whatever from their bathrooms, had quite a few nice smelling ones over the years but couldn't tell you what they were, they also cost between £50-185 for a very small single wash bottle so well above your budget
These days more hotels are also moving to dispensers bolted to the bathroom wall rather than giving away small plastic bottles which I guess is good for the environment and cheaper for them but it's really screwing up my morning schedule when I have to mess around decanting them into my own bottle with a combination of funnels and straws
My recommendation is therefore to steal the little bars of soap instead
Those mini hotel bottles really annoy me, especially as they probably bin them whether they've been used or not.
60p over budget but this is what the wife buys me because she likes the smell (I would buy Original Source Mint and Tea Tree myself)
Couple of things
£80 for a bottle of shower gel! Did everyone see that.
Hotel bottles - what hotel are you staying in where the mini - one use bottle of shower gel costs between £50 and £185?
I call (clean) troll, surely...
Hotel bottles – what hotel are you staying in where the mini – one use bottle of shower gel costs between £50 and £185?
Did you not figure out this was the room price?
I see. I think it must be a ‘clever’ gag - he’s saying you’d have to pay the cost of the hotel to get the bottle of gel.
I use Molton Brown which at £15 or so for 300ml might sound a bit over the top.
But - it’s such a good liquid soap - quite thick (I shave with it as well) that only a tiny amount is required for each shower. A bottle will easily last 4-5 months in which time I’d have spent more on runny equivalents like radox - and generated more plastic waste as a result.
Alternatively buy 5 litres of body wash:
This - we buy our shampoo and shower gel in 5l from faith in nature and just refill glass bottles in bathroom. Also doesn't have nasty stuff in it.
I see. I think it must be a ‘clever’ gag – he’s saying you’d have to pay the cost of the hotel to get the bottle of gel.
He’s saying his work pays for the hotel, and he walks out with free to him shower gel.
This – we buy our shampoo and shower gel in 5l from faith in nature and just refill glass bottles in bathroom. Also doesn’t have nasty stuff in it.
kerley - excellent! Out of interest, once it's been opened is there a time limit on when it should be used by and does it deteriorate at all? How long does 5 litres last you? Thanks!
Currently converted to a bar of Wright's coal tar soap 😁
kerley – excellent! Out of interest, once it’s been opened is there a time limit on when it should be used by and does it deteriorate at all? How long does 5 litres last you? Thanks!
Don't know if there is a recommended time limit but it lasts well over a year stored in a cupboard in the garage and seems as good as when new. We buy shampoo, conditioner and shower gel in 5L.
Cheap unscented or soap. Followed by a squirt of joe malone orange blossom for smell. Great stuff and a bottle lasts months.
Pure Castile soap with essential oils at a reasonable price
The blurb on the bottle says you can use it to wash skin, hair, clothes, dishes.
They claim you can brush your teeth with the peppermint soap, I tried it, it’s rank 😁
Superdrug's fruity ones smell very strong and are about 50p. I love them. Apart from the fact the gel slides off your hand as soon as it touches it so you have to use loads.
Don’t know if there is a recommended time limit but it lasts well over a year stored in a cupboard in the garage and seems as good as when new. We buy shampoo, conditioner and shower gel in 5L.
Thank you kerley and definitely sounds worth considering especially if it can be stored in a garage.
Pure Castile soap with essential oils at a reasonable price
I love Dr Bronner's products and they're cheaper to buy from Dolphinfitness, linked to on one of my earlier posts. Loads of handy tips including usage cheat sheets from a member of the Bronner family: