Coast or Irish spring?
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Posted by musicbook Apr 23rd, 2012 at 12:13AM
I use any soap that DOESN'T contain carcinogenic antiperspirant ingredients like potassium alum, triclosan or aluminum chlorhydrate or any aluminum-based ingredients.
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Posted by SpiritOfTheRabbit Apr 23rd, 2012 at 12:03AM
Irish Spring... it smells so good, when I smell it on someone I just want to wrap myself around them!
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Reply by peachfuzz68 Apr 23rd, 2012 at 12:18AM
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Posted by SweeterThenHoney Apr 22nd, 2012 at 11:58PM
I use oil of olay but mostly the homemade soaps my mom makes :)
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Posted by crowwoman Apr 25th, 2012 at 5:50AM
I would choose Coast. This is my choice, but actually I use Dial or Caress.
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Posted by Mindreader2 Apr 23rd, 2012 at 12:45AM
What an interesting question.
I recall sleeping through a lecture in marketing on this (type) of soap question.
In the States up through WWII, soap was just an undifferentiated product like, say, gasoline at the gas pump now. It was soap. Soap was soap. It was just sodium stearate that grease went into suspension in with water and down the drain.
At the turn of the 20th century there were laundry bar, crude soaps and the weird Ivory Soap (Procter & Gamble), discovered by accident, that floated.
WWI and WWII spread the English Lever Brothers Brand “Lifebuoy,” around the world – literally. US GIs came back with a knowledge and desire for “lifebuoy.”
For reasons unknown to me (because my thoughts in marketing class were on a brunette girl who was a little sister at our Fraternity House and not on my class work), Proctor & Gamble introduced “Zest,” into the market in late 1950s.
If I recall correctly (and I generally do not), Irish Spring (Colgate-Palmolive) as introduced to take market share away from Zest.
Coast (Dial) was introduced to take marketshare away from Lifebouy (Lever).
These were “male” soaps. And, notice how the companies fought for market share of the “male” audience.
There were tons of “women’s” soaps: calgon, camay, etc., but the male market share was untapped in the 1950s and 1960s and (I think) these soaps were an attempt of these huge companies, P&G,Lever, Dial, Colgate-Palmolive, to develop new markets or to hijack their competitors market share.
Or, so is my dim recollection from B-School.
My answer to your question. Irish Spring, but I have not a clue why.
Thanks for an interesting question.
[I did cheat and look up the brands again because I could not remember who manufacture what – except P&G]
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Reply by peachfuzz68 Apr 23rd, 2012 at 1:37AM
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Posted by sarasay38 Apr 23rd, 2012 at 12:16AM
coast
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Posted by Interdit Apr 23rd, 2012 at 12:02AM
Bath and Body Works all the way! They smell out of this world!
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Reply by peachfuzz68 Apr 23rd, 2012 at 12:16AM
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Reply by Interdit Apr 23rd, 2012 at 12:18AM
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Posted by Efour Apr 23rd, 2012 at 12:02AM
Zest
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Posted by Echinodermata Apr 22nd, 2012 at 11:59PM
Wait, they make Irish Spring for ladies?
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Reply by peachfuzz68 Apr 23rd, 2012 at 12:16AM
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Posted by revrndale Apr 22nd, 2012 at 11:59PM
Both of those dry my skin out .. I use DOVE For Men ... LOVE IT !!
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Posted by LadyBronte Apr 22nd, 2012 at 11:58PM
I like the smell of Coast - but really don't care like either of those two. :)
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Posted by Classicality7 Apr 22nd, 2012 at 11:57PM
Allergic to both, but I used to love Irish Spring.
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