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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 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.
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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.
 
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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.
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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.
 
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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.
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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 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.
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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.
 
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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 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.
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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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I bought Dr. Squatch because it sounded cool and I liked the ingredients. Not expensive either.

Already feels better than the Old Spice. Especially in my hair. I probably should have done this years ago. For those of you who are irritated by most store bought deodorants I moved to Crystal salt based years ago. They are unscented. Pretty much just a stick of mineral salt. I am not into cologne and have never touched it.

Anyway, I never use shampoo or conditioner or anything its just the soap. So this has already been an improvement. I will buy some of these basis bars though.
 
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sleevedraw said:
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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Care to explain the avoid plastic comment? I assume there's some ingredient I should be looking for because it looks like Humble has a plastic container.

I appreciate the Schmidt's recommendation - I just was using a Milk of Magnesia deodorant (Peppermint Jim's) that seemed to work well, but had to stop because I smelled like I was chewing gum everywhere I went.
 
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Kobayashi said:
Care to explain the avoid plastic comment? I assume there's some ingredient I should be looking for because it looks like Humble has a plastic container.

I appreciate the Schmidt's recommendation - I just was using a Milk of Magnesia deodorant (Peppermint Jim's) that seemed to work well, but had to stop because I smelled like I was chewing gum everywhere I went.
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I typically buy in bulk online - might be that only the plastic container version is available in stores?
 
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Our toddler likes to stand on the dishwasher door to help unload and hang off the top rack. It is what it is and I never liked the dishwasher that came with the house, and it made him happy.

Was looking for Memorial Day sales around town and instead found an open box display model Bosch 800 Series at Best Buy for $979. Has one scratch on the stainless front panel but we’ve got two kids and a third on the way so who cares. $420 off retail and 100% chance it picks up more dings in the future. I’ll be installing that tomorrow.
 
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Our toddler likes to stand on the dishwasher door to help unload and hang off the top rack. It is what it is and I never liked the dishwasher that came with the house, and it made him happy.

Was looking for Memorial Day sales around town and instead found an open box display model Bosch 800 Series at Best Buy for $979. Has one scratch on the stainless front panel but we’ve got two kids and a third on the way so who cares. $420 off retail and 100% chance it picks up more dings in the future. I’ll be installing that tomorrow.
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if you are really bothered by it, just find the "grain" and use sandpaper from 180 to 320, i did it for my previous house fridge that had a rough go, and came out fine

and if it's a "minor" ding, those cheap glue ding removers for cars work well too
 
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I love Minor Leage baseball hats (NewEra) and collect them. Here’s the ones I got this year. These are all alternates each team has every year, some new, some not. Two of these were extremely hard to get. I realize people probably won’t get the interest in this, but I love them.

The Wisconsin Frozen Pizzas
The Alabama White Sauce
The Jacksonville Prawn of the Dead
The Hartford Thunder Chickens
The Portland Bean Suppah!
The Springfield Cashew Chickens



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I love Minor Leage baseball hats (NewEra) and collect them. Here’s the ones I got this year. These are all alternates each team has every year, some new, some not. Two of these were extremely hard to get. I realize people probably won’t get the interest in this, but I love them.

The Wisconsin Frozen Pizzas
The Alabama White Sauce
The Jacksonville Prawn of the Dead
The Hartford Thunder Chickens
The Portland Bean Suppah!
The Springfield Cashew Chickens



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Jax had a 4-game rebrand to the Honeydrippers. Really random that I know that but if you like this stuff then I'm sure you'll appreciate it.

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Been tired of my Apple Watch and wanting to get back to more traditional watches. Going to mess with this Seiko SRPE53. Not really a bracelet person so have a few NATO and fabric straps with a sailcloth on the way. Have a leather strap for another watch but the lugs are 18mm instead of 20mm.

If I get time tonight am going to replace the crystal with a sapphire and the caseback with a slim closed version. Had no idea this Seiko modding stuff was so crazy, may be a fun side hobby.

Couldn't really get the blue to show up in my office light, it isn't a black face though, is a nice blue color.

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Tarrant said:
I love Minor Leage baseball hats (NewEra) and collect them. Here’s the ones I got this year. These are all alternates each team has every year, some new, some not. Two of these were extremely hard to get. I realize people probably won’t get the interest in this, but I love them.

The Wisconsin Frozen Pizzas
The Alabama White Sauce
The Jacksonville Prawn of the Dead
The Hartford Thunder Chickens
The Portland Bean Suppah!
The Springfield Cashew Chickens



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Alabama White Sauce is hilarious.
 
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I know we had the Montgomery Biscuits for a while down in, well, Montgomery. We went to Birmingham Barons games all the time, saw Michael Jordan play many games, but their logo and mascot wasn’t that interesting.

When I was at school in Huntsville we went to a ton of hockey games and one of the minor league hockey teams was the Macon Whoopee from Macon, Georgia. Huntsville was the Channelcats.
 
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