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So I’ve been wondering why guests have been using a similar scent or body lotion during their visits. It’s been setting off my allergies and I find it off-putting.
So I took one of the partially used bars of soap and put it in my kitchen. Low and behold, it’s the Bergman Kelly products that I ordered from Amazon.
It’s supposed to be white tea and low scent. I can’t stand it.
Anyone have any thoughts on single use products that don’t smell floral? And don’t ask me to put in pumps - I have hand soap and lotion in big containers on the sink. I’m renovating the bathroom this year and then will put in those wall pumps.
I’ve ordered a honey chamomile soap and hope it’s nicer smelling.
I’m sorry I can’t offer a solution, as I only use re-fillable pump bottles.
But I had to laugh at “ guest perfume smells”, as I was in the same predicament and “blamed” one guest for a perfume smell that lasted weeks. Did all the appropriate things: washing and rewashing, vinegared walls & floors, burned sage between guest stays… drove me and my husband nuts. Although the guests who noticed it all politely said it was pleasant.
Long story short, my husband had dug out and replenished the empty detergent canister with a cheap detergent I had totally forgotten about, and that I’d stopped using…yep! - because of the lingering odor! One last wash - in our regular detergent - et voila! Smell gone.
As a person with a fragrance allergy you should look for products that are fragrance free (NOT unscented). I’m actually allergic to the most common scent they use in unscented products. (Balsam of Peru) it’s used to mask other scents.
Just go to Amazon and google fragrance free. There are a lot of products now available.
Must be the equivalent of out Poundland Stores that filled up the old Woolworth’s sites when they went bust.
Another cheapo over here is “SuperSavers”, where I buy all my cleaning supplies, but it so pisses me off when the one you are used to / pleased with suddenly get degraded. like shower glass daily spray cleaners for example. Then the same Co brings out a “Platinum” version at twice the price. Essentially it’s the same product as the old one before degradation.
I’m well-known as a soap snob since I make the stuff myself, and I advise you to look at the ingredients listing on the packaging. If you are actually allergic to the scent rather than sensitive you can check the very last things on the list which will say things like linalool, eugenol, citronellal etc. These are the most common allergens in essential and fragrance (synthetic) oils. The reason it’s difficult to find unscented soap is that soap itself has a smell which isn’t, quite honestly, very nice!
If you’d really like to wow your guests you could do what my boutique hotel clients do, find a local soapmaker who will make it to your specification and basically co their regular bars into 2 or 3 pieces to make guest soaps. Don’t have them wrapped but print your own paper band to go round them with your listing name and logo.
Sorry for the essay … never get me started talking about soap!
Baby soap is usually fragrance free and hypoallergenic. I found some travel-size bars of baby soap for about 30 cents each and that’s what I put out for guests.