Sunrise Showers – Bandits

“Tomb Raider”

I think this is the second variety from local soap company, Sunrise Showers, I have tried. On the packaging—along with the goat and the duck—there's a picture of a masked, Western “Bandit”—and I'm always amused by how bandits and pirates are considered romantic, even though they're criminals and terrorists. But what really got my attention is a fairly long (for a small soap wrapper) paragraph about how the essential oils in this soap are inspired by the secret formula used by the “4 Bandits” in the 15th Century for warding off the “decimating plague” that they might otherwise contract from corpses while robbing graves! That's just one of the weirder sales pitches I've heard in a while. Of course, the bottom line is the ingredients, among them: clove, cinnamon, eucalyptus, lemon, rosemary, madder root, and sea salt joining the oils of argan, avocado, castor, olive, and coconut, as well as colloidal oatmeal, shea butter, and goat milk. All of that someone has worked into a roughhewn, little bar—tan, with irregular streaks of reddish-brown. It's a fine soap, with good lather, and just the best fragrance. I wish... I wish... I wish I could have this one around all the time. (Sneak a bar of it into my coffin!) It reminds me somewhat of my bay rum aftershave, and also, you know, those grave robbers.

Soap Review No. 107