Fifteen years later, a supposed adult used the real thing and sued · 4:21pm Oct 15th, 2020
We all have our little indulgences. On those rare occasions when I find myself at a craft fair, I often drop four dollars on a bar of handcrafted soap.
...it may be a good thing that I don't get to visit craft fairs very much. Actually, with coronavirus, there haven't really been any --
-- anyway, soap is one of life's necessities. It is also, in the bulk store form, fundamentally boring. You have a bar. It has a single uniform unnatural hue. There may be corners which dig into skin. Sophisticated versions might round off the edges. There is the option for a scent, and there is very little chance you will enjoy it.
Craft fair soap comes in a little more variety for color, scent, and actually putting some effort into the process. It makes washing into something I can look forward to for more than hot water and ten minutes of privacy. (The privacy requires waiting for 2 a.m. It's not a guarantee: just a chance.) So I understand the desire to make soap a little more exciting -- especially for kids, who often see baths as punishment and soap as that which removes proof of fun. That's why bubble bath exists, and neon foam colors, and everything else.
It is also now why Emoji Soap exists.
It's really not at the craft level of manufacture, especially as the packages I saw were in the bulk department. Sold individually, so you can get your emoji of choice -- but solidly mass-produced. Normal soap, in a different mold, with a little more attention paid to color and shape. Maybe that'll make bathtime somewhat more enjoyable. Or, for those who are somewhat older, ironic.
I'm choosing to see this as a fad, and one which is arriving at a bad time: it's not as if they can hope for a boost from the movie tie-in. But for now, it's selling. In fact, of the multiple styles offered from the package dispenser (which shows the consumer all of what's available), there seems to be a clear favorite. The one which is almost sold out from the box. The emoji which all the kids want to wash up with, for a given value of 'all'. It's easy to track what the bestseller is, and that's why I can show that special soap to you now.
It's just that... their choice feels sort of...
...counterproductive.
Well, at least it isn't scented.
Please tell me it isn't scented.
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I wouldn't put it past them!
You have a preferred scent/style?
I *may* have tried to start making soap professionally once upon a time, and *may* still have gallons and gallons of oil that I haven't done anything with yet....
(Seriously, I could send you a frickin' *log* of homemade soap.)
Sir Patrick Stewart offical soap™
Years back, my ex bought a bar of soap that looked and smelled exactly like black forest cake. I asked her never to do that again, as 5 in the morning is not the time when I am necessarily able to parse that reality is lying, and what I'm holding is soap.
...Welp. Okay then, I guess... this exists now. A possibility that, for some reason, wasn't really something I recall ever before considering, but... life's full of surprises?
wow. someone REALLY didn't think that through.
When you said emoji , I knew the exact cliff we were headed to. Is there a Rule about. Just because it hasn’t been done before doesn’t mean it should be done.
I knew where this was going... but Georg beat me to it.
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Damn it, Georg
Have you tried a gel like body soap? I have been using a few different brands for a while now and I feel that I get more bang for my buck then with a bar. Plus I was once told about all the stuff that can live on a bar of soap and even though I am not a hypochondriac I switched real fast.
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At least we can say for sure that...
it was a sh**** bar of soap.
Ah. but you forget that to anybody 12 and under (physically or just mentally) poop is the height of humor, followed closely by butts.
I’m surprised it isn’t rainbow colored. There’s a candy store near here that sells ‘unicorn poop’ lollipops.
Why... just why... and in another 6 months or so someone, somewhere is bound to have the oh-so-bright idea to create an 100%-natural version... ewwww....
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Not sorry.
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You're forgetting about farts.
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Does that come in a cup?
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Heck, I'm an adult (sort of) and I think it's funny too.
The minute I looked at the title and read the word 'emoji', I knew what was coming...
In the end, it's not the kids but their parents that think it's funny. I've seen way to many adults who love the poop emoji and collect the merch like crazy (my older sister included, and I'm in my 40s).
I saw a construction toy based on that emoji for sale in a local shop a while ago,
Seriously, wtf?
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I have to hand to to the ladies and gentleman, not only is that one of those things that sounds like a good idea and seems very credible, but it shows an inventiveness - perhaps even genius - in marketing sadly lacking in the vast majority of advertisers these days.
(Save perhaps the "Who gives a Crap" recycled toliet paper Mum gets, which does such things, showing wisdom beyond that of humankind, as suggesting the box in comes in be recycled as spacecraft.)
I mean, that's not even the first time I've seen that advert and I still watched it through.
Heck, if I actually had the need, it'd be the sort of thing I might seriously consider or at least bear the knowledge of it in mind during the activity in question.
Emoji soap (poop or otherwise)? Not so much.
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Skip the gel, just get Dr. Bronner's. Dilute it. I mean it. Otherwise you will be Fresh in ways yet unheard of.
Works great though.
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I use Bronner's for basically all my hand/body soap needs. Also occasionally for general cleaning.
Just don't read the bottle. That way lies madness.