To bar or to liquid? That is my question.

For as long as I can remember, I always used a bar of soap. Then it would get down to a little tiny piece. I would try to use the rest of it only to fail. The little piece would slip out of my hand or just break in half, running down the drain. What a waste. I thought, if all the little pieces of all my previous bar soaps came together, I’d have one whole bar soap. Probably.

Then a few years ago, the answer to my problems came in the form of liquid body wash! No more dropping my bar of soap. No more wasting what bit of soap I had left. I wouldn’t feel guilty about bar soap leftovers being unusable because now I could use the soap down to the very last drop. The soap god heard my prayers.

I have a problem now though with my new found friend, the plastic bottle of liquid soap. With the bar of soap, I only had to throw away the paper. I could have even burnt the paper if I wanted to then it would have gone into the air. With the liquid soap, there’s this big imposing plastic bottle. Of course, some liquid soap bottles are made from recyclable plastic. However, it doesn’t make me feel less guilty that I have killed enough plastic trees what with all the other plastic containers in the house.

Maybe if I revert back to the bar soap in it’s more environmentally friendly paper box, I could save one little plastic tree in my lifetime.