@Sarah977
I know what you are saying Sarah but.....soap is a personal thing. Would you want to use someone elses soap?? If I left a used cake of soap out for the next guest I would be crucified for it......and rightly so. This is why the hotel/motel industry supplies mini-cakes, soap is something you only share with family members, and even in our house Ade has her soap and I have mine! Although that is not a hygiene thing, we just prefer different smells, textures! Ade likes hers with chunks of outmeal in it! It sort of feels like scrubbing yourself with a sanding block to me, but she likes it!
Sarah, I guess we all have a different perceptions. In this country we have been fortunate enough to avoid major disasters and our social security system is such that there are very few who have to actually scrounge their way through life. Sure we have our homeless, but their numbers are very minimal and they are well supported by aid agencies...Red Cross, St Vincent De Paul, Salvation Army, Foodbank, the Smith Family....and a number of other private aid providers. The requirement to give a used cake of soap to someone else, in reality doesn't exist here....it would be seen (and in general) taken as an insult!
If I offered one of our Meals on Wheels clients a cake of used soap they would probably tell me not to call with a meal again!
It's not like shop fruit or bakery products or packaged goods that have hit the best before date, soap is something that someone else has used on their body, and to us...that is the way it is best left!
Cheers......Rob
