At a recent family dinner I brought up the following topic and was completely surprised when I learned that my assumption was wrong. Well, you know what they say about assuming...but anyway, I was under the impression that the only person in the entire world that still uses bar soap is my father. Apparently, I'm just the only weirdo that thought bar soap had become obsolete.
Bar soap. That's right, that is today's topic. I'm a big time fan of body wash, and I was pretty sure that once the clock stuck midnight and the millennium was official rung in, people ran through the streets cheering and throwing away their bars of soap. I guess that didn't happen though, because bar soap is still in existence.
Why am I so intrigued by bar soap? I'll tell you. For those of you who know me, CVS is my favorite store in the entire world. I can go in there for eye makeup remover and come out with $75.00 worth of products. In a recent trip to my favorite store I was browsing the soap aisle for my usual Oil Of Olay Body Ribbons Body Wash (the best!) when I glanced across the aisle and noticed that were shelves upon shelves filled with bar soap. I was baffled. I don't know if I am just blind to bar soap or what, but I seriously thought that the world had converted to Body Wash. Who doesn't love a loofa?
I decided to poll (ok, I didn't really do a poll I just asked around) some people I know to find out of they are stuck in the 70s using bar soap or if they've embraced the current times and made the move to body wash. And, like I said, people are still using bar soap! I'm sorry, I just think it's really weird. With a good body wash and loofa you can lather every part of your body, including every major crevice (thanks for the line Kevin McCalister). With a regular bar of soap, I don't even feel clean. Ugh, and when you drop it in the tub and have to pick it up out of the soap water, just not for me.
So dad (and the rest of the weirdos that continue to bar it up), I apologize that I made fun of you, but I still think bar soap is gross. It's 2010, convert to body wash, you can do it.
