pangur-and-grim:
pangur-and-grim:
always doing something annoying
can I be honest? I was so pissed off by friends and family criticizing my soap choice that, for half a year, I did an experiment where I washed one hand with Palmolive and one with handsoap, to prove that it didn’t make your skin any rougher. and do you know what the result is? it does make your skin rougher. and now I’m even more pissed off.
I love this. This is the beauty of the honest scientific process. You had an idea, you tested it and you still reported the results even though the results disproved your idea.
It’s ok to be mad at it, you’re an honest scientist.

ok to be mad. all scientists are mad scientists sometimes.

…also why the heck would you want soft hands. rough hands are obviously stronger

…also, none of the moisturizing soaps cut grease well enough, and a lot of the time when I wash my hands they are actually dirty. So yes I will use the soap that works. and if I feel like I need moisturizing afterwards that’s what lotion is for

However.

to me, the biggest reason to use dish soap for skin washing is because every brand of actual handwash and bodywash has fucking SCENTS and COLORS and shit, except the ones that cost eleventeen william dollars and/or require asking a pharmacist to special order them for you– but for some reason scent-free dye-free dish soap is approximately as cheap and easy to find as other kinds of dish soap

so the main thing that baffles me about this, is the choice of bright orange fruity-scented palmolive because to me that defeats a big part of the purpose

…but hey. different strokes. Live your own truth.