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I have a thing about smells. Especially when it's me. Ever since I received that first bottle of Avon cologne in 6th grade from my Grandma Thompson, I've been all over smelling good. In fact, my dresser is a hall of fame of men's cologne. A little dab'll do ya. Right? But then there's the soap factor. I like a good soap that won't ex foliate every layer of skin in one use; usually bar soap. The problem with bar soap is that after two weeks or so, it becomes the size of an oblong penny. Much like the penny crunchers at the mall that you can grind flat or that piece of silly putty that gets hard after sitting out on the table all night. |
| I try to use that bar to the very end. And then it cracks in half and I have to fuse them back together to get a good lather on the washcloth. It's like a hard taco shell that breaks right down the middle. It's a button for me; a nerve-ending connected directly to the irritation gland in the middle of my head. Broken soap and cracked tacos are small stuff that I seem to sweat. The other morning, that little remnant was completely unusable, and I had a choice to make. To use Lara's girly-soap or not to. It's that girly liquid soap in a pink squeezable bottle that smells like mangos and tulips on the kitchen window sill in spring time. The other day, I decided that desperate times required desperate measures... So I used the girly-soap. I was out of my man-soap and had to smell like a girl all day. The good news is that I didn't have tacos for dinner. | |
I would like to thank you for the brief glimpse into the psyche that is Dan. We all have these thoughts but few if any can bring them to life like Dan Thompson.
I will never look at the smelly liquid soap of my wife the same way again. I would also like to ask why so much water gets on the floor when you only get out of the shower for a second to get another bar of soap?
One of lifes many mysteries!!
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Pauly:
I call that the "floor saturation factor" or FSF for short. I believe it's directly proportional to the water pressure plus the distance of the bathroom cabinet from the shower divided by the density of the man-soap...
I can't tell you how many times I've practically done the splits trying to keep one foot in the shower and one on the tile floor in an effort to minimize the FSF.
The mystery continues ...
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Dan, I want to encourage you to look into the manly scented liquid soaps. I for one enjoy the old spice liquid soap with the "coushy thing" I do not feel like any less of a man for using it. I also have had to "cross over" to the pink soap a time or two. I must admit I do feel a little funny during the fresh flower soaping, but always seem to get some nice compliments later on that day. Good luck, I hope they come out with the Drakkar Noir scent, I will be all over it.
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Man-soap in liquid form is something I tried last year. The problem was the Coushy Thing! My skin was always raw! I went to work looking like I had been in the sun all day I was so red!
Drakkar. I have an old bottle of that stuff too.
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That "Girly" soap is going to put my kids through college. Why don't you go all the way and use a plastic mesh 'scrubbie' to give yourself a good scouring. Go back to your Avon roots and get a little Wild Country or Hisstory gel soap. That's what I use.
Clif Hickok - Manager, Avon Products INC
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