I’ve been a loyal user of Coast Original Soap since the late 70′s. It was a shock to me when the Dial Corp took it off the shelves and replaced it with their new Coast Pacific Force scent. I gobbled up every bit of the Original that I could find and basically tapped out all of the availability at internet retailers.
I now go to great lengths to find it and pray that my now 250+ bar stash will never run out.
What’s great about the Internet is that it enables people like me to find others in the same boat.
Thank you John Grove for reading my post on ABestWeb and hooking me up with 50 more bars!
And so I ask… Is Coast your guilty pleasure and what lengths do you go through to get it?
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they did the same thing with Irish Spring soap. except now they claim they make the original in body wash form – it’s different, and the body wash of the regular smells different from the regular bar soap. these companies drive us crazy!
I’ve never used the original coast, but I just bought some Pacific Force. I guess it’s because I don’t know the original, but I think this version smells okay.
I remember using Coast after 2000 when I was young.
We bought some between then, and it broke me out in skin rash like I’d been scrubbed with steel-wool.
I bought some “Coast Throwback” at Bi-Lo last week… I loved it. It doesn’t break me out, and it took me back to early 2000
I’m 16, and I want my childhood back!!
I love coast, and it is my favorite soap, but I don’t understand why they did away with th sunspray from back in the 80′s. That used to be all I would buy and then one day I noticed it was dissapearing from the shelves and I have never seen it again. It is dissapointing.
I just bought 2 of the 8 bar packs at Mars Grocery Store for $4.59/ea.
I must have lived in a test area because I remember using this in 1967. Probably not possible but I know I had my grandmother sending me Coast when I was in Viet Nam in 1970. Anyway, I’d suggest that you go to http://www.coastsoap.com/ and go to the contact us button (on the bottom) and send them a message that you want them to keep making this. I already did.
Plz,
Bring back the real Coast…not that imitation…
Darn i boycott Wal-Mart….anywhere else?
Hey Missy,
Just found something at Rite Aid which seems to suggest that Dial is trying to bring back Coast the Eye Opener it is THROWBACK celebrating 35 years newly packaged in 2011. I bought the one pack that was available not sure if you still look for them.
Yes I just saw some of this at Wal Mart….is this the original stuff? I came to this site expecting a flurry of activity….
YUP! WalMart. Has the throwback limited supply. I just bought 20 8 bar packs. As soon as they stock it I will get more! 2.97 for 8 bars! IT IS THE SMELL I REMEMBER! I showered twice tonight!
Someone alot more computter smart then me should start a cause thing on facebook. Let the people pick witch coast they want. lol i would but not that smart on computer.
Hey Robert,
Great idea — I just started a Facebook Fan Page called “Bring Back Coast Original Soap” here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bring-Back-Coast-Original-Soap/144979265585469?v=wall Feel free to “Like” the page and share your story!
I was surprized that so many people feel the way I do. My husband used the eyeopener blue marbled Coast soap for years. I have allergies to most smells and this soap doesn’t bother me. Because our jobs keep us away from each other for weeks at a time, when I want to feel close to him, I use the soap because its light clean and fresh smell reminds me of him. We have been hunting all over Texas to get the original soap bar.
Hello everyone I live Michigan and I cant find the sun spray coast soap anywhere. I’ve looked and looked and its like it never existed. I would like to contact the manufacturer to see if I could purchase directly from them but theres no contact information to go to. If some one know where I can purchases a few bars from please email me
Thank- you
Lola, SunSpray Coast has been discontinued since the 90′s.
There is a spot at the bottom of the “Throwback Coast” page where you can contact the manufacturer. I left an impassioned plea to bring back the original scent…the throwback isn’t the original scent, just the original shape (in my opinion). Everyone who wants the original back should leave them messages, maybe someone will listen. I told them I would buy in a lifetime supply if the original comes back!
Hey all,
Don’t fall for the Coast Throwback version. Great old packaging — same lousy new version of soap.
Waaaaah!
to late, bought 4 packs of the throw back packs thinking finnally real soap again. Only to find while i was showering it has a oily feel. was thinking maybe maybe it was just me. Now that i found this page i see the back of my mind has came forth, and its not just me. Could you send me the link to where i can cry to the dail company too. it really suck they pulled that.
I just found out that the original coast is gone… a sad day for me, no wonder I could never find it. Hopefully Dial see’s that bringing back a original can be profitable if marketed properly like Coco Cola Classic….
Coast was always my favorite bar soap from the late 70′s up thru the mid-90′s. Then I started using that shower gel crap. I’ve been back to bar soaps for several years and I am not a fan of the new Coast reformulation at all.
I do have some old sealed Coast in my possession that I cherish but I will never use, including: three bars of SunSpray Scent from the 80′s and a bar of original Coast that is complete with a mailer box and brochure from 1974. It was when Coast was introduced and it was mailed out. 
I have been a coast fan,for a long time,but i always didn’t buy,this wonderful smelling soap,of course with shower gel being so popular,i got sucked into switching from bar soap,to shower gel,but i went back to bar soap,and when i made the switch,i didn’t have to think twice about what brand i was going to be using.The problem where i live,which is in Canada,i can only find Coast,,The eye opener at one location,shoppers drug mart stores,i cannot find it anywhere else! so im stocking up,just in case it can’t be found anymore, Whats with the small bars???? i remember coast being a perfect rectangle blue/white marble looking bar! Does anyone know where in Canada you can find the old bars?? or are they a thing of the past,seeing as though Dial bought coast,back in 2006 i think…Ps i have tried the shower gels and i dont find the eye opener shower gel smells anything like the bar soap,and the break away coast sucks! it made my skin turn red and it became itchy and sore!….. Coast,,,,The eye opener!….. the best soap that was ever made!
OMG I didn’t know this many people cared for or love Coast (original of course) like I do too. I’ve been a “Coaster” sine 84 or so and I thought this pacific force stuff was a $1 store brand in Walgreens or something, I googled Coast and found u guys! We should protest, or throw a FPF party! Holla…
WERE CAN I GET THE ORIGINAL COAST SOAP IN THE LARGE BARS, INSTEAD OF THE SMALL 4 OZ. BARS? THEY WERE PROBABLY 6 OR 8 OZ BARS. WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THIS COMPANY?
VG
Do you really have the yellow coast soap? I would pay a pretty penny for a bar or too, please email me and let me know if you can let one or two go and how much!!! PLEASE! thanks
I can’t find original coast anywhere in NJ I wish I could just get a couple of bars if any ideas let me know also anyone remember the sunspray scent that wasn’t carried that long
I work for the company who owns dial, Henkel, I can try and go straight to the top and ask the gentleman why Dial no longer makes the coast soap, it was my soap for years too. Will get back ..
al
btw- can someone please send me some of the orignal coast ( blue)..I miss it so much..thanks!
AL I BEG you to ask you if they can bring back the yellow sunspray coast. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!
Wow,It’s funny to see so many people feeling the same way I do,I have used coast soap since the 70′s,and I have watched the bar’s get smaller and smaller,and the change in the smell and lather,it’s all about the bottom line.one would hope this company see’s they are loosing more and more business every day.come on,bring the old coast back.I guess I’m going to be forced to start using something else…………Mike Mullins
I too have been using Coast since the mid 70′s. It’s amazing to me that the “new shape” is basically the old shape with big chunks cut out of it… more profit I would suppose. I am lucky to get 2-3 showers before it breaks in half. I went to their website to let them know they are about to loose me after 30+ years of loyalty, but the site contains no contact information, customer service, etc. How dissapointing.
They can keep the new coast, but give us a chance to buy the original coast at least. It’s only fair. This new scent is not cutting it at all, it does not smell like the original coast.
Now i know why i can’t find any. Should start a boycott of dail soap. Until they bring back the coast original.
Try Nature’s Provender’s soap. You can find it at TJMaxx, if there’s one in your area (I’m in IL). I use the Oatmeal Honey bar and it’s incredible. So good I went to all the local TJmaxx stores and brought 8 bars.
They are extra large bars, at $3.99 per bar. It only takes a few rubs in a wash cloth to lather up. So much lather you could wash n rinse twice. You feel clean and you don’t get that dried out feeling you get with most in-store soaps. The scent gives you a reason to wake up in the morning. Highly recommended. I only have 2 bars left of original coast. Had to find a replacement.
Does anyone remember the gold coast soap from back in the 80s and 90s? I really loved that soap and when i called the company, they don’t even have a history of it. I remember it was my mom’s favorite soap for us in the summer because of the clean, fresh scent that wasn’t too overbearing.
I remember the yellow stuff. I still liked the original best. I don’t think they had the yellow very long though
I have been using coast pacific force for years now and finally found the arctic brand. I am desperate to find the original in the atlanta area anyone know where i can find it?????
can someone please tell me where i can buy the old coast soap @ ?
I`d enjoyed using liquid Coast Pacific Force for more than 10 years, until last week when I bought three new bottles thinking it was the original only to discover it had this horrible loud scent [some would say it smelled like an "old French whore"]. I immediately threw them in the trash can and will never buy Coast again. Maybe I`ll try Ocean Fresh if I can find it.
Hal
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