The smell is gone from Ivory soap!

My wife just bought a new package of Ivory bar soap, an 8 pack I think. Big bars, too, not the small ones.

I was using one of these new bars in the shower. Guess what? Good 'ol Ivory just changed the fragrance, (wait for it),

WATERMELLON!

I kid you not.

That was last season. It should be pumpkin now. 😃

Sadly, I just discovered the same thing. I am writing a strongly worded letter.

Lmao everything is pumpkin today.

I can just imagine the folks at Proctor & Gamble laughing about the enema freaks complaining about the odor of Ivory.

I wasn't a fan of the smell but I loved Ivory because it didn't have any perfume or leave any residue like the more common bath bars found now. Unfortunately, the warehouse clubs stopped carrying it in large packages and I refused to pay a premium to the supermarket for exactly the same stuff. Maybe they will start carrying it again. I still have bars of the original stuff left but they will run out eventually.

I remember as a young girl whenever I could smell Ivory soap in our house I knew someone was getting an enema, I love that smell, always have and if you are at my house and smell Ivory soap, you know that someone is getting an enema, it could be you..........

I just purchase a package of 8 new Ivory soap bars. Looked the same but just like Proctor & Gamble has done with a lot of their products lately, the bar size is actually smaller. It looks the same but the over all weight is less. Proctor & Gamble, (big business) is screwing with everything they make to get over on the consumer. I have NOT tried it out yet but I'm not a big fan of change that is unnecessary, and specially not noted to the consumer.

Like so many other products I'm sure they changed the formula to make it cheaper and it'll never be the same.

Yes, this is truly very SAD SAD news 😢

NO! i can't believe this. i live outside the the USA and make regular "shopping" trips home. i always buy a big supply of ivory soap for just one purpose. something will be missing for me after my last few bars are used up. the smell of ivory soap and a genuine rubber enema bag is one of the most atmospheric experiences i can think of.

I think the new 'fragrance' is watermelon.

We seem to be a vanishing demographic. Its a good basic soap and used in so many ways.

In the last 2 months I have purchased the 8 bar brick of bath bars they seem smaller not as wide. Did not notice a change in smell but the size baybe Wal Marts way of squezing the company to lower the price by cutting the size but still have 8 bars in the brick.

I am not sure about the loss of scent. Last weekend I purchased three bars of Ivory at the local supermarket and on Sunday decided that I really needed a good enema. After opening the package of one of the bars I was rewarded with that familiar scent so nothing seems lost that I can think of. Two quarts of warm water with that Ivory dissolved in it gave me a perfectly acceptable cleaning out. It worked like it always did and the scent of the Ivory has lingered in the bathroom for a couple of days.

Emom brought back memories of the days I would receive from my mother's red bag. If she did not have a bar of Ivory, sometimes she would substitute Ivory flakes.

Confirmed- It's why I've gone back to rotating between Dr Bronner's and Kirks or Conti.

Hehe- a great tease ad line- "Conti- great for washouts for continence Issues"

Maybe I got the last of the old supply. Picked up a six-pack at Rite Aid last week. Same thrilling and exciting and comforting smell.

Looks like I need to go back there and stock up before the 'new' supply comes in.

What about liquid ivory soap? i've never used it, but it would seem to be easier to use and if it had the same old scent it would do nicely. anyone have any info?

I have a vague memory of someone posting that using liquid Ivory was not a good idea. Perhaps because of additives. Someone else may have information on that.

For me, the shaving off of slices of the bar and soaking them in hot water sends up that familiar and erotic and terrifying and comforting fragrance.

I bought some bars recently at Stop & Shop and was discouraged to discover it was aloe scented Ivory! WTF! 😢

I get sort of week in the knees over the smell of old fashioned Ivory Soap.

The aloe stuff has worked OK so far. But how can you F-Up a SIMPLE product, like Ivory Bar Soap, that is supposed to be 99.99% pure! (Whatever that means!)

YES, to whomever: Liquid Ivory dish washing liquid and other liquid soaps are NOT the same as bar soap and may include chemicals, antibacterial things, perfumes, artificial colors and scents that are not good to use in enemas.

PS: I recently bought a generic brand of petroleum jelly at a discount store that was scented like baby talcum powder! Talk about weird sensations using that to lube up!

Good enough! A watermelon enema sounds delicious! Especially on a hot summer's day.

We recently scored a 10 pack on sale- and it was the original Ivory. Still brings back childhood memories... I hope that this is one thing that never changes.

Ivory is the traditional "enema" soap, but i think i received about as many or more with Dove soap and it still smells the same to me, but it seems that a lot of the original Ivory scent is gone. Even with the original Ivory bar soap it doesn't have as strong of a scent. I notice these things because the smells of enema preparation, i.e. the smell of rubber and soap are huge turn-ons for me.

Ivory soap for enemas? Always. We lived in a small two bedroom house and you could smell the odor of ivory soap through out the house when my mother had mixed up all those ivory soapsuds for our enemas. If I came in from outside and the ivory smell hit me at the door I knew that I was in for one of mom's soapsuds enema series. Many times I came home from school, or from playing outside, to be met at the back door by mom holding her bulging red enema bag ready to go. Those were the good old days I guess. I got lots of enemas, whether I thought that I needed them or not, and probably did need them because I felt much better afterwards.

Here it was predominately yellow "Sunlight" soap that was the brew of choice by many mothers and medical pratitioners throughout the heyday of enema administration.....We still have it here in Australia & the aroma is still pretty much the same, particularly when mixed in the big white enamel irrigator --not bad with the red rubber fountain syringe either......Kinda accentuates the smell of the warmed rubber too....Aaaaah ! that sexy.erotic aroma ..mmmmm ! bliss.........Of course I shouldn't leave out the "Simple" soap brand either ,which was also commonly used but not as potent if you follow my drift......I have both at hand & like both for different reasons.......However with that said, funnily enough they both produce the same outcome. . .The former being the kick arse concoction you treat with due respect --explosive one that. . .Play it safe folks

A few times when I was a kid my Mom ran out of Ivory soap and used a bar of yellow Sunlight laundry soap to mix up my enema. It caused stronger cramps and irritated my rectum much more than Ivory.

Now THAT'S disgusting!

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For Biritish consumers what is the equivalent?

Growing up I got every warm ss enema with Ivory soap. I loved the scent of the Ivory along with the scent of the red rubber enema bags used on me by mom and auntie, both RNs. Ivory soap was definitely the choice for enema soap by nurses back in the 50s & 60s