Hygiene Tips

Why a Bar Soap is a Better Choice for You?

Unknown Facts About The Bar Soaps

Chaeyun Kim
ILLUMINATION
Published in
4 min readMay 15, 2020

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🎇“The Magic BAR Soap” illustrated art by Author ♥

Recently, everyone is concerned about how critical washing hands as it is one of the best ways to stay healthy and protect yourself and your family from getting COVID-19. So, this means the soap is one of the necessary things you may always have at home. The two main available soaps are the liquid and bar. Of course, the liquid one may be easier to use and provided with several fancy-scents to be selected. But you may change your mind. In this article, I would like to share why you should switch to use bar soaps instead of liquid ones.

It is Better for the Environment.

Illustration by Author

Usually, liquid soap always comes with a solid plastic bottle. On the other hands, the solid soap bar comes in a paper or thin cardboard box which is recyclable. If everyone helps to switch to use the soap bars, we can reduce a ton of plastic waste! According to a 2009 Swiss study, the carbon footprint of liquid soaps is 25 percent greater per wash than bar soaps. Liquid soaps require five times more energy to create and 20 times more energy to package in a plastic…

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Chaeyun Kim
ILLUMINATION

Hello I am a graphic designer & artist Chaeyun Kim. I draw comics that we can relate to and cool illustrations. An absolute art lover.