Archive for December, 2009

December 15th, 2009

Top Ten Soap Quotes

1. What is elegance? Soap and water!
-Cecil Beaton

2. I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.
-Mark Twain

3. Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
-William Osler

4. Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
- Bill Cosby

5. What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
-Yiddish Proverb

6. Anyone’s life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air and a happy contented spirit.
-Lillie Langtry

7. There are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water.
- Ivy Baker Priest

8. I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how much they know about sex and how little about soap.
- Billie Burke

9. The clear layer is glycerin. You can mix glycerin back in when you make soap. Or, you can skim the glycerin off. You can mix the glycerin with nitric acid to make nitroglycerin. You can mix nitroglycerin with sodium nitrate and sawdust to make dynamite. You can blow up bridges. You can mix nitroglycerin with more nitric acid and paraffin and make gelatin explosives. You can blow up a building easy. With enough soap, you can blow up the whole world.”
-Chuch Palahniuk

10. To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
- John Mason Brown

Other Notable Soap Quotes:
I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making of bread, butter, cheese, soap, to the incubation of eggs, &c. – Thomas Jefferson

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth. Only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. – C.S. Lewis

He made enemies as naturally as soap makes suds. -Traditional

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. -Mark Twain

December 13th, 2009

Top Ten Reasons to buy Handcrafted Soap

10. You will be supporting entrepreneurial artisans, and their small
business!

9. It smells amazing.

8. It’s got pretty colors and bits of stuff in it!

7. It really cleans, with gentle all-natural ingredients.

6. Two Words: No Synthetics.
Ok. Two more: No Detergents.

5. With child-like anticipation, you’ll await its delivery in the mail, which
will prove to be much more satisfying than buying mass-produced soap at
Walmart. (No disrespect meant to them- I mean, they’re great for camouflage
hunting gear and WonderBread… but handcrafted luxury soap???)

4. Guests will use it in your powder room, wish it was theirs and
overwhelm you with compliments about your good taste.

3. It’s an Affordable Luxury.

2. It nourishes your skin, and makes it feel special.

1. It nourishes your mind, and makes you feel special

December 11th, 2009

Tyler Durden said that soap was the yardstick of civilization.

Tyler Durden: Now, ancient people found their clothes got cleaner if they washed them at a certain spot in the river. You know why?
Narrator: No.
Tyler Durden: Human sacrifices were once made on the hills above this river. Bodies burnt, water speeded through the wood ashes to create lye.
[holds up a bottle]
Tyler Durden: This is lye – the crucial ingredient. The lye combined with the melted fat of the bodies, till a thick white soapy discharge crept into the river. May I see your hand, please?
[Tyler licks his lips until they're gleaming wet - he takes the Narrator's hand and kisses the back of it]
Narrator: What is this?
Tyler Durden: This…
[pours the lye on the Narrator's hand]
Tyler Durden: … is chemical burn.