Soap scam exposed!!!!

I was taking my daily shower this morning, interested as I am in maintaining proper personal hygiene. I've noticed for some time that a bar of soap doesn't seem to last as long as it used to. Unwrapping a new bar of soap, I was annoyed again by something I've tolerated for many years, but now, as the resident curmudgeon of this board, wish to expose for all its despicable cunning.

Visualize, if you will, the senior management of a multi-billion-dollar soap company sitting around their board table, drinking latte coffee and nibbling on bear claw pastries brought in by their underlings.

"Joe," says one, addressing the president of the company, "I think we need to make more money on our 6-ounce soap bars."

"Fred," the retort from the president went, "I agree. But our customers won't tolerate the constant price increases we've been hammering them with over the past 25 years."

"Joe, you pay me a lot of money to come up with brilliant ideas as the Vice President of Chicanery. Instead of charging our customers more for a bar of our soap, Let's just cut the size of the soap, make it smaller, and charge them the same."

The Vice President of Production and Packaging chimed in. "Great idea, Fred, but the customers will immediately notice the reduced size of the bar, and they'll be hacked off. Why not keep the packaging the same, shave the soap in the center, and they'll never notice, since the outside dimensions will be the same, and we can use the same packaging! I figure we can get away with packing a 4 ounce bar into the same outer dimensions as the old 6 ounce bar, and no one will notice at the store. Sure, we'll have to put the weight figure on the bars, but who reads the fine print? It will be the perfect way to scam our customers!"

The president rose from his chair, applauding. "You two guys have really earned your pay today. Also, the customers will have to buy more soap, since it won't last as long! I want to make an example of you to the others on this board, and effective immediately, I'm raising your pay by 1/3 and giving you both a million dollar bonus. Let's vote! All in favor of re-shaping the 6-ounce bar into a 4-ounce bar and keeping its external dimensions raise their hands and say:I want to keep my job!"

And so it was done.

Here's the evidence, shown as exhibits A, B, C, and D.

The prosecution rests.

John

Exhibit A:



Exhibit B:



Exhibit C:



Exhibit D:

Arent you glad you use dial? Dont you wish everyone did?

We anxiously await the report on candy bars . . .

I use shampoo or a cheaper body wash as I'm for sure gonna use shampoo anyway. Regular soap of any manufacture, unless you get the high dollar female foo-foo, dries out the skin. If I need to save shampoo, I get a haircut. That's how I beat the corporate non-sense.

I use to work for the aforementioned company. That idea was proposed and implemented more than 25 years ago. I wasn't the one who proposed the skinnying of the bar, but I know her name. As she put it, the bar will be put on a diet and lose some weight around the mid section.

Class III

They shaved the middle so you can hold on to it better!!




Yeah right!!


BW

I read somewhere that the guy who came up with "Lather, Rinse, Repeat" got a huge bonus, too.

I still use Ivory because it's 99 44/100% pure - let's just call it 99 1/2% - a 4.5 oz bar is about 50 cents - about right for soap IMO.

You could always go back to the pig fat and lye Gramma used to make.....

BW64 said:

They shaved the middle so you can hold on to it better!!

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Exactly.
Those are "Prison Bars" accidentally sold through retail.
You don't wanna be droppin tha soap!

I do notice that soap doesn't seem to last as long, per bar.

I use Palmolive or Ivory.

And I notice that the foam and residue from Soft Soap is excessive. I have to clean the bathroom sink more when I use it.

If you look around, this has been done to most products, they just charge more, or they do both.

You are so right Counsellor and before you can blink an eye, they will transform into a 3.5 oz. or a 3 oz. bar.
It's like when coffee suppliers (Fog and Max) went from 3 pound cans to 34.5 to 39 oz, cans, they claimed they did a survey and customers "preferred" the downsized cans. HOGWASH, I say!

Yep, corporations have been doing that for years. Keep the packaging the same size with less product.
I noticed the soap about 1 1/2 years ago.
M&Ms did this 20 years ago when they used a crimped seam down the sides on the individual serving packages. Same outer dimentions, less space inside.
Ice cream used to be in a 1 gallon carton. Know its .75 gal.

Take a look at the width of a roll of toilet paper on the hanger in your bathroom. It's been reduced durn near half.

I mentioned in the outhouse thread about the old Sears and Roebuck catalog.........Hmmmmm????

Actually S&W does the same thing. Take a beautiful 29/629, shave off a bunch of weight and call it a 329…………..which just like the soap, you can no longer hold on to.

Oh my gawd !!! You guys have given me too many things to do tonight when I get home !

Oh yeah, I just recalled a commercial for Herseys Kisses. Now they are injecting air bubble iin the chocolate. ***?
Same size, less chocolate.

As far as I am concerned, the very best the market has to offer, been using it for about 1 year. Very similar to the old Lava soap but much less grainy.

Bar Soap for Men | Dove Men+Care Deep Clean Body & Face Bar

Something you might want to think about if soap going away too fast bothers you.

Soap is packaged damp. Because of this, as you wash with it, it washes away from the bar faster. The bar dissolves faster.

If you buy several bars at at time, and take them out of their little hermetically sealed wrapper, and put them on the closet shelf, and allow them to dry out, once you do start to bathe with them they last quite a bit longer.

As for the hollow in the dial - when the bar gets so little it is impossible to hold onto, and I get a new bar, I used to throw the sliver away. Now, after using the new bar the first time, while it is still damp, I set the sliver in the hollow. As the bar dries the sliver melds into the bar. I don't throw soap away any more. No waste.