What is with the smelly hand soap in washrooms everywhere? Not everyone obviously, but some of us really are bothered by the raunchy perfume in it… Not just in the nose either, my hands get all raw and cracked from that shit… Do people ever actually want their hands to smell like tutti-fruity or mutant flowers? Clean is fresh enough, isn’t it?
—soap on a rope
This article appears in Mar 12-18, 2009.
Hey, bring your own soap if it’s that low quality, Purel is the way to go. I personally enjoy my hands having a tutti-frutti aroma…thank you very much.
There’s worse smells than “tutti-frutti or mutant flowers”. Can we have a red flag called “BORING PERFUME/COLOGNE BITCH” for the bitches about strong perfume and cologne?
Why is everyone so offended by little scent these days? Seriously, people, would you rather smell ass or rotten eggs? Things could be worse.
My hand soap at the office smells like raspberries. I kinda like it actually. Despite how subtle it is there’s that one person who’ll complain, and they have.
My hand soap smells like a bouquet of skunk anuses.
Sorry Selina, this is the first bitch I’ve heard about ‘Stinky Soap’. We’ve got a larger quota to fill if that’s gonna happen. Personally, my soap smells of lilac and ocean breeze. Where the hell did you get your soap TTFN?
I get raging headaches from perfumed products, I don’t think it’s too much to ask for at least public facilities to have less offensive smelling soap.
Cheap, petroleum based fragrances can cause cancer too…
Everything causes cancer, except cranberries, which actually reduce the risk. I recommend getting some cranberry scented non-petrolem based soap.
Like my best buddy often says: ‘Hey, ya gotta die of something’. Actually I believe it’s 50% genetics, 50% environment.
For me it’s 15% politics.
Okay, reword the red flag to “BORING STRONG SCENT BITCH”. I mean, it’s still just another bitch about strong scented products. Ypu have to agree that there’s too many of those as well.
I’m tempted to wear nose plugs and swimming goggles when I get on my office building’s elevator tomorrow. It reeks worse than a whorehouse on payday.
I haven’t seen many of those, but I’ll take yer word for it.
Bahahaw- whore house on payday. That’s a good one.
Don’t forget the earplugs too – wouldn’t want that stench burning up your brain matter.
I wonder what people did before modernization… all those God awful earthy smells of farm life… ooo my poor head. Bad cows! Bad chickens! Bad bees! Bad flowers… OMG… and the bloody pigs…
tutti-fruity not for you?
then yes,invest in purel….
and fyi, may want to avoid the scented purel.
Most of the soap I’ve encountered was not strong smelling at all. For me, the worst is the stuff that tries to smell like flowers. Even then, it’s better than the smell of piss/shit on my hands.
PDG: You SERIOUSLY need to improve your wiping/shaking skills if your hands smell like piss and/or shit after you’re done. 🙂
My folks have pretty acute allergies to strongly scented soaps and lotions, so whenever they go on a road trip or stay in a hotel, they make sure to bring their own soaps/lotions. Then there’s never any worry. The worst smelling soap I’ve encountered is at the coffee/trading post/gas station combo just outside of Truro. The hand soap in the coffee spot smells like a combination of rotting flowers and carbolic salve (I doubt many of you know what that is). Needless to say, this stuff smells aweful!