Awesome 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.

Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce, bathroom orders don’t upset us. These playful bars from Snows Cut Soaps look just like a real burger, stacking a not-all-beef patty, lettuce, and tomato between sesame seed buns, and finishing them off with a pickle. They don’t smell the part, though, instead packing a pleasant honey almond scent.

From Duke Cannon’s Big Ass Brick of Soap line comes a set of three manly bars that smell like the great outdoors. Scents include a crackling campfire, leaf and leather, and the delightful aroma of fresh cut pine. Each bar weighs in at 10 ounces, so it’ll last a good long time. We highly recommend Duke’s tactical scrubby pouch.

Was somebody on your list naughty this year? Insist that they clean up their act with Duke Cannon’s 10oz. bar of black soap. It’s formulated with activated charcoal for its cleansing properties and scented with black pepper and bergamot. We suggest pairing it with the Tactical Scrubber to really scour away misbehaviour.

Add a little extra weird factor to your guest bathroom with these handmade alien soaps from Cindy’s Bath Creations. Each vegan soap bar features a glow-in-the-dark space creature in your choice of color and scent, with 75 available fragrances ranging from grape soda to glazed donut.

Don’t you hate when the bar of soap slips out of your hand and onto the shower floor? Tetra Soap fixes that with a unique shape that fits securely in your hand. Its sculptural tetrapod shape won’t slip out of your grip, and each one is handmade from natural ingredients. Available in myrrh and frankincense formulas.

While some hotels are moving to larger, bottled bath products to reduce waste, there are still many who provide individually packaged soaps and toiletries. Tech Insider introduces us to Clean the World, a socially-responsible enterprise that takes these items, sanitizes, recycles, and donates them to populations in need.

Etsy store Silly Soap Shop’s detailed soaps of Star Wars characters and spaceships. You can choose from six designs: Darth Vader, R2-D2, Han Solo in carbonite, Death Star, Millennium Falcon and Chewbacca. You can customize the scent and color of your order.

Veteran-owned and operated K Bar Soap Company’s products are as tough as they come, with each of their grenade-shaped bar exploding with bold scents like whiskey, tea tree oil, peppermint, coffee, and citrus. They also make unscented bars – ideal for hunters.

What the Shape offers handmade candles that look like Nike and Jordan sneakers, including the Air More Uptempo, the Air Jordan 1 and the Air Jordan IV. Each candle is about 5″ long. The designs are also available as soaps and fridge magnets.

Latika Body Essentials has a silly holiday gift for folks who’ve been naughty or literally dirty. Its Lump of Coal soaps are partly made of activated charcoal and smells like smoked wood. Each bag contains three pieces of soap.

Redbeard’s handmade soaps include a hint of beer and other natural scents to keep you clean and smelling great. This 3-pack includes Pumpkin Ale, Woodsman IP and Winter Fir IPA. Save an extra 10% with promo code newawesomershop through 11/1/15.

Need an extra spring in your step when waking up? These Pacific Shaving Co.’s products contain naturally-derived caffeine to add a little zing to your shave routine. Fortified with aloe and spearmint, you’ll get a great close shave and feel invigorated.

Etsy seller Yvonne Kai sells plant-based glycerin soaps with tiny vinyl or silicone sneaker replicas inside. Most of the current stock have Jordans, but there are a few soaps with Adidas and other Nike shoes as well.

A more affordable and realistic-looking alternative to the Abby Normal brain soap. Each soap weighs 1.1oz and is made from glycerin with buttercream and snickerdoodle fragrance. Also available in larger packs.

This Bespoke Post box is all about casual living. The comfy woven elastic Beltology has no pesky holes, The Jack + Mulligan flask keeps your booze in style, and the Redbeard Brew Bar gets you clean with just a hint of hefeweizen.

A bundle containing three 4.25oz glow-in-the-dark soaps. The Uranium soap glows green, the Plutonium soap glows blue and the Fallout Shelter sign soap glows white. They come in a gift-ready packaging.

Luscious and lathery soaps made with real craft beers, accented by spices and textures like walnut shells, crushed oats and honey. The fragrant Belgian Witbier with orange peel is our personal fave, but they’re all great.

Naturists and naturalists alike can keep it wild and free (and friends close) by destinkifying with all natural soaps from Sasquatch. Outdoorsy scents include Pine Tar and Cedar Citrus. Use them on your mighty beard, too. (Thanks Paul!)

Geeksoap’s fragrant replica of the OUTATIME DeLorean license plate from Back to the Future has a whopping 1.21 gigawash of cleaning power. It’ll take you back to a time when you weren’t smelly and dirty.

Convince your materialistic loved ones to take a bath with this silly soap by WoodWick Candles. It contains a random US dollar bill that you can extract and spend once you’ve used up the soap. The bill can be $1, $5, $10, $20 or $50.

Owen & Fred’s natural soap is great for washing away the day’s filth. The cedarwood calms and relieves stress, while the peru balsam revitalizes skin, and the activated charcoal cleanses. It might attract rottweilers though.