Dial Soap, to the penalty box!
We’ve been using Dial soap in our household for years. I grew up using Dial soap. Sometime in the last not to distant past, Dial soap said, “We don’t care about our long time user PG”. It’s obvious. The formula hasn’t changed. Not that I can tell at least. But the shape of the bars. What the heck happened?
Somebody decided to go all wacky and make Dial soap look something like Jaromir Jagr’s hockey stick. The thing has a curve in it that just ain’t right.
In the NHL they have rules about such obscene bends. I think I need to call in the refs to check to see if Dial has really gone off the deep end. Break out the stick curve gauge guys….
” What’s the big deal”, you ask? “That looks good, contoured to for easy washing!”, you insist. Hooey!
The average lifespan for a bar of Dial seems to be down about 30% now. Looks to be a pure money grab by the ‘good folks’ at the Dial Corporation. With the bend in the soap you wind up working through the skinny middle and the soap breaks into two ends far sooner than it used to. Back in the good old days when Dial was just a big three dimensional rectangle you could usually work a bar down to nothingness. Now the bottom of my shower is littered with broken ends of Dial.
Dial, I beseech you, stop the insanity!
9 responses so far ↓
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Scott
// Mar 3, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I think I would be annoyed also if the soap we used started breaking in the middle, causing me to deal with two pieces of useless soap instead of the 1 piece we seem to wear down to microsopic levels.
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Wally
// Mar 3, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Boring as.
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Jerseygirl89
// Mar 3, 2008 at 3:53 pm
This is why I can’t use bar soap, it has to come out of a pump or tube so that I don’t slip on a small piece of bar soap and bruise my ass. Not that that’s ever happened.
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Russ
// Mar 3, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Not so PG, it is to make your life easier. Now when the soap breaks in the middle (as mine always seems to do) you have a spot to place the broken soap pieces. That is, if you do the soap meld thing. I’m cheap and do it, much to the dismay of my wife.
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Rick Astley
// Mar 3, 2008 at 5:09 pm
You should refuse to give another cent of your hard earned money to The Dial Corp.
You have to take a stand - I recommend you boycott all their products.
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Theo Epstein
// Mar 3, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Someone needs to speak to Mrs. Annoyingly Boring about adjusting your medication.
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Angie
// Mar 3, 2008 at 9:22 pm
It’s a total conspiracy at all soap makers! Brian says the same thing about Irish Spring and I have noticed it in Oil of Olay. Let’s stop using soap!
KEEP BELIEVING
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bryan
// Mar 3, 2008 at 9:36 pm
i agree with the boycott bandwagon! but even better than that, just stop using soap altogether! i have personally been shampoo-free for almost three months now…
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Sister Sassy
// Mar 4, 2008 at 8:02 am
Bastards! Same thing happened with my hummus! They made the container (convex? concave?-someone help me). But what it did was cheat me out of much more hummus since there was a nice mount of plastic in the middle of the container where Hummus should have been.
grrrrrr!
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