I would have bet that I had blogged about this before, and yet if I did, I can't find it, so here goes. It's not a profound story or anything, but it is a story. Or a journey. Something like that.
Way back in 2016, I was washing my hands in a restaurant bathroom and thought, Hmm, this soap actually smells good. Unexpected, right? I looked at the dispenser, and it had a Safeguard logo on it. Safeguard is the bar soap my mother bought when I was a kid, so the smell of it apparently imprinted in me as a "this is what clean smells like" scent. IIRC (ten years later), I had been buying Safeguard liquid soap at some point, but they stopped making it.
So when I got home that day, I did some internet searching to see if it was available again. The answer was a qualified yes: it was on Amazon, but in quantities that were more suited for commercial use than your average home. That's silly, I'm not buying a year's supply of it, I told myself.
Except I kept thinking about it. Finally I told myself, "Why not? No, you don't need two gallons of hand soap. But can you afford the thirty-five bucks right now? Then why not, if it will make you happy?" Little pleasures, right?
BTW, I just noticed that the container has an expiration date. Apparently I've been using expired soap, is that a thing? Because it has seemed to clean my hands as well as ever, these last nine+ years.
*It seems Safeguard now has a bunch of other, fancier hand soap options, in pretty bottles, but I'm going to stick with the classic. It smells like clean.
I love this so much. I did this, too, though only one gallon and it didn't last quite that long. Years, though. Different brand, same idea.
ReplyDeleteThat's a lot of soap! You use it and enjoy it, so it's worth it. I get a variety of scented soaps from Bath and Body Works; it's strange how certain ones make me happier and feel cleaner than others. I go for the citrus or fresh smelling smells, not the musky or floral ones. I never realized how powerful the tie between smell and emotion.
ReplyDeleteThe brain makes the funniest connections to scent, doesn't it? For some reason, fresh-cut grass makes me think of visiting my grandparents, even though we had a lawn when I was a kid and I would have smelled the grass at home all the time.
DeleteLol, you have to buy soap every decade! I don't know what this soap is or what it smells like - is it one of those cherry almond scents? I love those. Our soaps do not last that long for sure, I am impressed. I didn't know there would be an expiry date. And think - you lived through a global pandemic with expired soap! Obviously it doesn't matter!
ReplyDeleteClearly it worked well enough, right? I have noticed in the last few months that it doesn't suds up as much as before, so I'm curious how the new one will compare. Still finishing up the last bit of the old!
Delete