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.
Nathalie Stämpfli designed two soap dispensers that make use of bars instead of the liquid kind, grating the bars into flakes, keeping them dry and longer lasting.
We can’t seem to find the pin on this bar of soap, cast from an actual WWII steel grenade. We’d advise against traveling with this in your luggage, unless you want “special” treatment from the TSA.
The ladies will surely spot you when you use this soap. It will leave you sneaky squeaky clean. And if they’re into gaming, you’ll earn bonus points when you show them the box that it comes in.
This concept lets you break off tiny slivers of soap so you can wash your hands without ever defiling a shared block of soap with your germs. You could just use pump soap, but this looks way cooler.
Clean up your act with element number 92, Uranium. This periodic table-inspired soap bar not only teaches you a science lesson, but it emits a “radioactive” glow when the lights go down.
