Bar soap vs liquid soap

"Also consider ditching the liquid soap, which now accounts for 70 percent of hand-and-body soap sales. Bar soap costs a lot less per wash than liquid soap and has a lighter environmental impact. Still, soap bar sales continue to slip. Among the main reasons for this depressing shift, which only began around 1980, is the belief that liquid soap is more hygienic. Not true, according to authorities such as the Mayo Clinic. It may be easier to handle liquid soap because the bottle doesn’t leap out of your hands or get gooey. If that’s an issue for you, try the recently invented SOAPSTANDLE, a nifty little plastic gadget that fits onto a soap bar. It elevates the bar just enough to prevent it from getting soggy, while also helping you maintain a firm grip on the soap. "

Liquid soap is referring to soap used in bath or shower and soft hand soap for the bathroom sink, I suppose. Since I use cheap, cheap shampoo as my hand soap, I doubt I spend more. Plus, I have been using the same pump for ten years or more, so I am not buying new plastic. 

I still stand by my frugal practice of using shampoo I do not like or  shampoo bought on a super cheap sale, often gotten for free. In the past I had a friend who gave me her shampoo she hated. It was good for hands.

As for the Soapstandle, I am still using the little pink soap "stand" I bought from TG&Y in 1966. It has little feet-like spines on both sides and the soap dries perfectly. I put the little pink thing in a flat soap dish that can be washed and drained if necessary. I also have a white one, too. I used one in the tub and one at the sink. People have suggested I get rid of one or both and get a new plastic dish that has a matching stand. Matching? Why?

Oh, my little and very old soap "stand" is hard enough to poke it into the soap, but I won't/ 

For the rest of the Sierra Club article Read here.

Have you abandoned bar soap? What do you have that is still useful and works just fine that is over 50 years old? Okay, how old is your oldest thing, something that can be replaced by something new and improved?