
Can
I admit something here? I hate decorative soaps. I have a gallon-sized
plastic Ziplock bag in my bathroom that serves as a decorative soaps
graveyard, where those waxy, over-scented bars go to die. What exactly
do you do with decorative soaps? You can't shower with them (I learned
this the hard way after running out of normal soap and desperately
breaking into a package of French soaps shaped like those men in bowler
hats from Magritte's paintings). You can't put them in a soap dish next
to the sink (thus tricking your unsuspecting house guests into a fate
similar to the afore-mentiond showering experience). So what exactly is
their purpose?
Well, German designer Andreas Kraeftner might have
finally changed my mind about decorative soaps with his Ghetto Basics
decorative soap design:
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