Your bathroom can have just as much personality as the other rooms in your home---you can even express yourself with the soap you use. Whether you like dainty animal sculptures, soap with a pick-me-up zing or even Barack Obama in your shower, you're sure to find a cool soap that fits your style.
Animal Soaps
Animal-shaped soaps are cute and quirky bathroom accessories. You can lather up with critters ranging from pigs to dinosaurs and everything in between. Gianna Rose Atelier makes a line of triple-milled soaps that come in beautifully detailed animal shapes. Le Chat Sophistique is a little white cat with a pink ribbon around its neck. It's fragranced with tulip and hyacinth. You can also find three little pigs and three monkeys, scented with white lychee. Dog-breed soaps include Westies, chocolate and yellow labs, pugs and poodles. A twist on this idea is soap with a toy animal embedded in it: Willow Farms makes soap with a toy horse figurine peeking out.
Caffeinated Soap
Caffeinated soap is a conversation piece for your shower or bath, and it also claims to wake you up. It contains caffeine anhydrous, which can be absorbed through your skin. Brands include Shower Shock, Xoxide and Bath Buzz. Shower Shock is a 4-oz. bar that will last 12 showers or baths; you'll absorb around 200 mg of caffeine during each wash. That's about the same as one 8-oz. cup of coffee.
Xoxide contains 250 mg of caffeine at 15 servings per bar. Shower Shock recommends you build up a good amount of lather to ensure maximum caffeine absorption. Both Xoxide and Shower Shock are mint-scented.
Realistic Food Soap
Soap that looks like food makes getting clean a bit more delicious. MollyCoddleSoap makes food-shaped soaps from avocado to jumbo shrimp. Have breakfast in your shower with a waffle and maple syrup. Bath time becomes dessert time when you wash up with a jelly donut or a chocolate brownie. They're scented like the food they represent---apart from the jumbo shrimp, which smell like chai tea.
Other almost-edible treats for purchase online include Gummi Bear soap, a sushi soap sampler (from Etsy seller BunnyBubbles), Oreo cookies, popcorn chicken, peanuts (from Etsy store LoveLee) and Jello shots.
Obama Soap
Now you can shower with Barack Obama. Honor the 44th president of the United States with this soap crafted in his likeness. This soap is made by David Chalat for Windy's Creations. It weighs 8 oz. and has a milk and honey or vanilla and almond fragrance. It's made of glycerin. You can also purchase an unscented version.
iPhone Soap
You don't have to worry about dropping these phones in the bath; in fact, they won't work unless you do. TwoEggplants makes soaps that look like iPhones, Palms, iPods and BlackBerries. The BlackBerry has all the right buttons on the keyboard, and is scented with---you guessed it---blackberry. (There's another version of this soap that smells like bourbon and coke.)
The iPhone soap is amaretto scented, and also contains skin-softening shea butter. It can be customized with a different fragrance, or made without shea butter. All TwoEggplants soaps are made with a vegan soap base and cosmetic-grade coloring.
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