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Hand Soap – $7.95
Are you looking for a punny gift that provides hours upon hours of good clean fun? You need the hand-shaped Hand Soap from the NeatoShop. This silly and sanitary gift is delightfully musk scented.
Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fantastic Bath & Body items!
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Hot Dog N Bun Soap | $10.95
Don’t eat that hot dog -no matter how tempted you are! Some dogs are made for grilling; others are made for washing up. This dog is really a bar of soap, complete with a soap bun and soap mustard, made with completely vegan ingredients. Get yours at the NeatoShop! The Hot Dog N Bun Soap is only one of a series of delightfully-shaped soaps that will bring a smile to the face of guests in your home. Check them all out at the NeatoShop. And order your hot dog today!
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Krispy Treat Soap - $3.95
Do you love krispy treats so much that you wish you could bathe in their sweet goodness? Well, now you can! Head on over to the NeatoShop and get yourself some Krispy Treat soap. This fabulous handmade soap looks and smells just like the real thing.
Be sure check out the NeatoShop for more Bath & Body fun!
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Nathalie Stämpfli designed this soap dispenser. It takes a solid bar and grates shavings into your hand. It’s like a gourmet Parmesan cheese grater, but with soap! Stämpfli writes:
Today, most of the soap we use is liquid soap, which contains a lot of water. Block soap instead is more concentrated and therefore has some ecological benefits: You don’t transport unnecessary water around. In place of plastic bottles you can simply use paper for packaging. The solid blocks can easily be piled and allow a greater space efficiency in a truck.
But what about the usage of soap bars? I don’t like the weird slippery feeling when I use them. It gives me goose bumps. And under the shower, it always slides out of your fingers. Hand soap also often gets dirty and accumulates bacteria when more than one person is using it.
Cupcake Soaps – $11.95 
Smell the buttercream flavor of this box of three cupcakes! But these sweet treats aren’t for dessert -they’re for bathing, or showing off in your guest bathroom. Cupcake Soaps come in a clear gift box for easy display. Newly available at the NeatoShop. Sweet!
Photo: Dave Hunt / Smithsonian Institution
We don’t usually post such a gruesome image on Neatorama, but bear with me. The story behind the corpse shown above is quite very intriguing.
When the corpse above was discovered in 1875 during the digging of a train depot foundation in Philadelphia, it has turned into soap (that’s why it’s called "Soapman" by the Smithsonian Institute). Water had seeped into the casket and brought alkaline soil with it, turning the fats in the man’s body through a type of hydrolysis called saponification.
Thanks Jessica Porter!
This looks like a lot of fun, but watching the video is a lot less messy than doing it yourself. Some of the bubbles this guy made are at least 15 feet across! Note the video is in slow-motion, on second look I don’t think it’s in slow motion, but you still get a good look at how giant bubbles collapse when they burst. I also have to wonder, at what point does a bubble become so big that it is no longer round? Link (embedded vimeo clip)
If you’re hunting for a gift for a women of a certain age who’s on top of her game, then look no further than this.
Behold, the "prize" winning, cedar and amber scented Cougar Soap from the NeatoShop. After all, a lady has got to keep herself clean before she goes wild: Link
Guys: how do you attract cougars? Why, with this Bacon Soap of course! More funny and strange soaps.
Psst! Want to know the secret to keeping your game geeks clean? You’re looking at it: game controller soaps by Etsy seller Digitalsoaps.
Nerd Approved has the descriptions: Link | Digitalsoap’s Etsy page
The following is an article from The Best of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader.
Some things we use all the time seem like they’ve been around forever. They haven’t. Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader looks at how a few items came to be parts of our world.
BAND-AIDS (1921)
In 1921, Earle Dickson, and employee of Johnson & Johnson, married a woman who kept injuring herself in the kitchen.
* As he repeatedly bandaged her cuts and burns with gauze and adhesive tape, he became frustrated; the clumsy bandages kept falling off. So he decide to create something “that would stay in place, be easily applied, and still retain its sterility.” He stuck some gauze in the center of a piece of adhesive tape, and covered the whole thing with crinoline to keep it sterile. It worked.
* He made up a batch for his wife and took a few in to show his co-workers. The company’s owner, James Johnson, heard about it and asked for a demonstration-which convinced him to begin manufacturing the product.
* By the ’80, over 100 billion Band-Aids had been sold. Dickson, who became an exec at J&J, was amply rewarded for his efforts.
IVORY SOAP (1879)
(Image credit: Flickr user Stewf)
Harley Procter and his cousin, chemist James Gammble, came up with a special new soap in 1878. It was smooth and fragrant and produced a consistant lather… but it wasn’t Ivory-it was called White Soap-and it didn’t float.
* One day in 1879, the man operating Procter & Gamble’s soap mixing machine forgot to turn it off when he went to lunch. On returning, he discovered that so much air had been whipped into the soap that it actually floated.
* For some reason, the batch wasn’t discarded-it was made into bars and shipped out with the other White Soap. Soon, to their surprise, P&G was getting letters demanding more of “that soap that floats.” So they started putting extra air into every bar.
* Now that they had a unique product, they needed a unique name. And they found it in the Bible. Procter was reading the 45th Psalm-which say: “All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces…”-when it hit him that ivory was just the word he was looking for.
* In October 1879, the first bar of Ivory Soap was sold.
VELCRO (1957)
A young Swiss inventor named George De Mestrel went for a hike one day in 1948. When he returned, he was annoyed to find burrs stuck to his clothes. But his annoyance turned to fascination. Why, he wondered, wouldn’t it be possible to create synthetic burrs that could be used as fasteners?
* Most people scoffed at the idea, but a French weaver took him seriously. Using a small loom, the weaver hand-wove two cotton strips that stuck together when they touched. The secret: one strip had hooks, the other had loops.
* But De Mestrel had to figure out how to mass-produce it… and he needed tougher material than cotton, which quickly wore out.
* Years passed; De Mestrel experimented constantly. Finally he found a suitable material-nylon, which, it turned out, became very hard when treated with infrared light.
* Now he knew how to make loops by machine-but he still couldn’;t figure out how to mass-produce the hooks.
* Finally a solution hit him. He bought a pair of barber’s clippers and took then to a weaver. With the clippers, he demonstrated his idea-a loom that snipped loops as it wove them, creating little nylon hooks. He worked onthe project for a year-and when it was finally completed, Velco (“Vel” for velvet, “cro” for crochet) was born. The product had taken a decade to perfect. Image credit: Flickr user Janice Yuvallos.
POP-UP ELECTRIC TOASTER
(Image source: The Cyber Toaster Museum)
The first electric toasters, which appeared around 1900, were primitively constructed heating coils that were terrible fire hazards. However, they were a luxury-it was the first time in history that people didn’t need to fire up a stove just to make a piece of toast.
* There was a built-in problem, though-the bread had to be constantly watched or it would burn to a crisp.
* In 1919, Charles Strite, a Minnesota factory worker, got sick of the burnt toast in the company cafeteria. So, in his spare time, he designed and patented the first pop-up toaster. Then he went into business manufacturing them. It took years to work out the bugs, but by 1926, Strite’s “Toastmasters” were relatively fireproof.
* A few years late, a New York businessman purchased Strite’s company and invested heavily in advertising-which proved to be the key ingredient in making the toaster a common household appliance. Every home “had to have one” …and now they do.
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The article above is reprinted with permission from The Best of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader.
Since 1988, the Bathroom Reader Institute had published a series of popular books containing irresistible bits of trivia and obscure yet fascinating facts.
If you like Neatorama, you’ll love the Bathroom Reader Institute’s books – go ahead and check ‘em out!
Remember Petri dish cookies? Now a clever artisan has come up with an interesting counterpart – Petri dish soap! The soap is home-made on a coconut oil base, then colored to match the streak patterns of various bacteria on different types of agar, and packaged in a Petri dish.
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"The odds are good, but the goods are odd" is the unofficial slogan of MIT. During finals time, however, it should also be noted that the goods are sometimes very, very stinky.
Apparently, the prestigious university’s student body has a little B.O. problem as students opt to spend their time studying rather than showering.
The situation has gotten so bad that the Student Senate is actually giving out soap and deodorant to try to solve the odor problem: Link (video clip)
May we suggest the bacon soap, guys?
You won’t find a better gift for a Star Wars geek than soap in the shape of Han Solo as he was encased in Carbonite in the movie The Empire Strikes Back. $6.50 from Luxury Lane Soap. Link -via The Daily What
Bacon Soap – $5.95 at the Neatorama Shop
Bacon – is there anything it can’t do? Well, thanks to modern technology, we’ve got bacon belt to prop your pants up, bacon wallet to keep your money safe, bacon watch to tell time … and now, we have bacon soap to get you clean!
Take a shower or wash your hands with the only soap that’s infused with the sweet aroma of bacon, and see just how attractive it’ll make you to the opposite sex! Well, maybe not, but at least you’ll be smelling like your favorite breakfast, lunch, and dinner food
Link | More Bacon stuff at the Neatorama Shop
If you like beer, but hate wimpy soaps, check this out: Beer Soap by etsy sellers Jamin and Zaidat. Sadly, the soap doesn’t actually smell like beer …
No longer can the eau de booze only be achieved by the partying set. The Beer Soap Company has turned an Etsy page into a one-stop shopping experience for those who prefer their bar soap to be made of a favorite brew. Of course, a little shea butter and sunflower oil make the soap slightly more palatable, but the opportunity still remains to literally say you doused yourself in a booze bath.
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