The "Shit I just bought" thread

Fogel · 2025-04-11T21:14:24-0400

TJT said:
Not sure where to put this.

I usually just buy whatever body wash the supermarket sells. Old Spice Fiji was fine as its readily available, affordable, and smells good. However, I was out of soap and ended up unpacking some old boxes from when I moved a few years ago. In that box was a 4 year old bottle of the same Old Spice Fiji I never used in the confusion of my move. I went to the shower to use that as I was out and put some on my arm.

Expired Old Spice chemically burned my fucking arm.

It was a minor burn but in my mind this is just goddamn soap. How can this happen? I will never, ever be touching that shit again. I was absolutely stunned by this. What is in our fucking household stuff man?

I had shifted to fully natural salt based deodorant 15 years ago due to allergies but this guarantees I will never touch supermarket soap again.

sleevedraw Help a brotha out here with your racial trait in skincare knowledge.

I went and bought some natural hippy soap already. But that is just the starting point.

Expired soap will separate, causing certain parts to have a higher pH, so you basically got hit with a high dose of alkalinity. When performing sanitation at the plant, some of the soap we use will fuck me up way more than any acid ever will, especially the caustics for the fryer, we're talking 13-14 pH.

Deathwing · 2025-04-12T00:22:05-0400

TJT tried to start an underground boxing ring and is just passing it off as "old soap".

moonarchia · 2025-04-12T04:19:36-0400

Fogel said:
Expired soap will separate, causing certain parts to have a higher pH, so you basically got hit with a high dose of alkalinity. When performing sanitation at the plant, some of the soap we use will fuck me up way more than any acid ever will, especially the caustics for the fryer, we're talking 13-14 pH.

That was my first thought. Soaps use the opposite of acids to do their job in removing the guck and grime. Any burning would indicate some sort of chemical change in the product over time. I have used industrial strength cleaning agents before that completely removed my fingerprints even though I was using rubber gloves and heavily diluting it.

Bald Brah · 2025-04-12T08:10:40-0400

Transalp 750 to keep my Concours 1400 company in the shed.

BrutulTM · 2025-04-12T10:20:46-0400

Fogel said:
Expired soap will separate, causing certain parts to have a higher pH, so you basically got hit with a high dose of alkalinity. When performing sanitation at the plant, some of the soap we use will fuck me up way more than any acid ever will, especially the caustics for the fryer, we're talking 13-14 pH.

Chanur · 2025-04-12T11:30:02-0400

TJT said:
Not sure where to put this.

I usually just buy whatever body wash the supermarket sells. Old Spice Fiji was fine as its readily available, affordable, and smells good. However, I was out of soap and ended up unpacking some old boxes from when I moved a few years ago. In that box was a 4 year old bottle of the same Old Spice Fiji I never used in the confusion of my move. I went to the shower to use that as I was out and put some on my arm.

Expired Old Spice chemically burned my fucking arm.

It was a minor burn but in my mind this is just goddamn soap. How can this happen? I will never, ever be touching that shit again. I was absolutely stunned by this. What is in our fucking household stuff man?

I had shifted to fully natural salt based deodorant 15 years ago due to allergies but this guarantees I will never touch supermarket soap again.

sleevedraw Help a brotha out here with your racial trait in skincare knowledge.

I went and bought some natural hippy soap already. But that is just the starting point.

I've never had issues with any kind of deodorant but old spice. It irritates the shit out of my skin. I use Dove Mens Sensitive aluminum free. Baxter of California has been nice stuff I've used in the past but it's also kind of pricey.

sleevedraw · 2025-04-12T13:21:32-0400

TJT said:
Not sure where to put this.

I usually just buy whatever body wash the supermarket sells. Old Spice Fiji was fine as its readily available, affordable, and smells good. However, I was out of soap and ended up unpacking some old boxes from when I moved a few years ago. In that box was a 4 year old bottle of the same Old Spice Fiji I never used in the confusion of my move. I went to the shower to use that as I was out and put some on my arm.

Expired Old Spice chemically burned my fucking arm.

It was a minor burn but in my mind this is just goddamn soap. How can this happen? I will never, ever be touching that shit again. I was absolutely stunned by this. What is in our fucking household stuff man?

I had shifted to fully natural salt based deodorant 15 years ago due to allergies but this guarantees I will never touch supermarket soap again.

sleevedraw Help a brotha out here with your racial trait in skincare knowledge.

I went and bought some natural hippy soap already. But that is just the starting point.

Basically echoing what Fogel said; liquid cleaning agents have a tendency to go "bad" over time as the ingredients separate. Liquid laundry detergent is the same way (even though it generally works better than powder); best to only buy what you can use in 1-2 years. Same with sunscreen.

I've gotten into fragrances, so I typically use unscented soap. I typically use Basis bars; it is an actual tallow soap, so expect some soap scum if you have hard water down in Austin. I personally don't mind it because I have an electric scrubber that I use to help clean. Dr. Bronner's also works well, though you'll run into the same issues with castile soap and hard water that you will with tallow.

If your skin gets dry, then you might consider a pH-neutral soap like pHact or Cetaphil.

For deodorant, I like Humble just because I like to avoid plastic when I can. Tom's used to be pretty good, but they reformulated. Schmidt's is also good, but some people have sensitivity issues with magnesium, and I try to avoid buying Unilever.

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