Awesome Soap

Looking for some fresh new scents for your shower routine? Duke Cannon has four delightful new fragrances to help you keep clean and refreshed: Wayfinder (eucalyptus + desert sage), Superior (fresh water + neroli), High Country (birchwood + Tonka), and Sawtooth (alpine air + cedarwood). All four are available in THICK Body Wash and Big Ass Bricks of Soap.

Scrub away the day’s sweat and grime with this exfoliating black bar of soap on a rope from Byrd. The bar combines activated charcoal and jojoba beads to remove impurities and exfoliate dead and dry skin, while shea butter helps smooth and moisturize. Gentle on all skin types.

Clean up your act with this manly hand and body soap from Fury Bros. Combining rich aromas of campfire and tobacco with a pumice scrub, it’s sure to conjure memories of warm summer nights every time you wash up. Made from vegan-friendly ingredients. Sold in a 16 oz. bottle.

Upstate Stock enlisted the help of SallyeAnder Soap to create the perfect bar of soap for washing up while camping. It has a Castile base combined with neroli and eucalyptus oils and bits of balsam fir tree for an invigorating fragrance and a cleansing texture. Each jumbo-size bar weighs over 8 oz, about double your typical bar of store-bought soap.

Keep soap bars from getting slimy and gross with Brix Soap Cases. These sturdy ABS plastic cases hold soap bars in place so they won’t slip out of your hand in the shower. A magnetic lid holds in place securely, keeping bars from making a mess when traveling or heading to the gym. Available in two sizes to hold square, round, or rectangular soaps.

These awesome smelling handmade soaps come in Wild West-inspired fragrances like Blazing Saddles (leather, gunpowder, sagebrush, sandalwood), Home on the Range (blackberries, sun-dried laundry, fresh-cut grass), and Hair of the Dog (whiskey, tobacco, coffee). They also make body wash, candles, lotions, and more.

Small batch soap company Soap Distillery puts us in a wintry mood with their collection of holiday-themed scents. With yummy aromas like Peppermint Hot Cocoa, Hot Toddy, and Glögg, you might be tempted to bite into one instead of using them to wash up. We don’t recommend that. They also make an egg nog lip balm.

Hailing from Hyvinkää, Finland, Taija Taika is a magician and an expert soap bubble artist. If we knew that could be a profession, we might have chosen a different career path. Here, she shows off her unique skill by blowing a smoke-filled bubble, then using a bubble wand to bounce it like a tennis racket.

The idea of a beer and cigarette soap sounds pretty awful on paper. But rest assured, the fragrances in Soap Distillery’s manly soap bar are surprisingly pleasing, swirling together scents of tobacco, lavender, and hops, into a moisturizing and cleansing mix of coconut, olive, and sunflower oils, lager beer, and black clay.

Swag Brewery’s fragrant soaps are derived from real spirits, but we promise you won’t smell like you spilled booze on yourself. They’re actually quite pleasant, with a peppery and oaky Kentucky bourbon scent, a sweet and jammy Merlot scent, and a spicy and grassy IPA scent to choose from. The price shown is for a 3-bar gift set.

Most soap dishes are made from plastic, ceramic, or wood. But we dig the more substantial look of Lukas Alberts’ soap dishes, which are machined from metal with strategically-placed ridges to keep soap bars from getting soggy. They come in solid aluminum or copper, both of which will oxidize and patina over time.

Photographer Jens Heidler spent more than 30 hours standing in frigid temperatures to shoot this amazing macro imagery of ice crystals as they formed on soap bubbles. Once the bubbles are encased in ice, their texture works like tiny prisms, revealing a rainbow of colors. He also shared some tips and tricks for shooting your own.

Duke Cannon adds Buffalo Trace Distillery’s Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey to their Big American Bourbon Soap and the result is pure genius. It’s a hefty 10 oz, made with ground corn bits to exfoliate rough patches and a rich scent that’ll send you over the edge to whisky heaven.

“You can wash Canada! Nope, it’s already clean.” Humorist and musician Bill Wurtz presents a brief but somehow still jam-packed clip about the many wonderful things you didn’t know a simple bar of soap was good for.

Bring an alien invasion into your bathroom or kitchen with one of these fun soap pumps from designer Duncan Shotton. Each one features a tiny U.F.O. that uses its tractor beam to slurp up an innocent human, piggy, or cow from your countertop.

Drink in the whiskey and coffee aroma of Outlaw Soaps’ Hair of the Dog soap and whiskey shaving soap, and fix dry hands and lips with lotion in a stick and whiskey cola lip balm. Includes a shaving brush, enamelware mug, nail brush, and soap tray.

Get nostalgic for the halcyon days of youth whenever you’re in the bathroom with Athletes Brand’s Baseball Glove Scented Soap. Now all you need are dirt-scented shampoo and chain link fence-scented candles.

Made from organic coconut and olive oils, Cheifs’ big and burly soaps will have you smelling great, while at the same time destroying dirt and grime grime with its exfoliating scrubby bits. Choose from pine, lime or sweet tobacco scents.

With macho aromas like Beer and Log Cabin, Adam Anderson’s handcrafted Mansoaps are an easy gift. We’re patiently waiting for Post Football Practice and Dirty Socks to be added to the repertoire.

…or as we like to call ’em, Soap Barrrrs. This soap set made by Etsy seller KcSoapsNmore is perfect for swashbuckling pirates, undead warriors and stinky humans. Guaranteed to contain no poison.

Etsy seller Howard’s Home makes unbelievably realistic soaps made to look and smell like various pastries and other snacks, including doughnuts, cinnamon buns, popcorn and gummy worms.

Move bishop to bathroom and checkmate dirt with these awesome set of soaps made to look like life-size chess pieces. You can customize the colors and scent of the set. Soap chessboard not included.

Made with “electrolytes, caffeine, and punching”, this officially licensed soap is based on original assets from this organization that doesn’t exist and which we’re not even talking about.