Liril! – Lime Rush

“Grandfather Lime Misty”

This Liril! “Lime Rush” (note the exclamation point after the brand name, rather than Lime Rush!) was pretty inexpensive at an Indian grocery, and it does come from a big company (Unilever, who make like half the stuff in your home) and the ingredients are chemically, but I did enjoy this soap. The box is nice, too, and might cost more to make than the soap. The soap is spring-bud green, kind of a wedge shape, with flecks of darker translucent green to suggest, I guess, an organic element, or broken glass. The smell is definitely lime, pleasant, not overpowering—though, personally, I would have liked it to be more overpowering. The most odd thing about this soap is the color being kind of a flat, milky green, rather than deep or translucent like either a lime or a sliced lime. The only thing I could think to compare it to are those drinks at dairy bars where they mix slush and vanilla ice cream, with kind of a “Creamsicle” effect—I believe at Dairy Queen they're called “Mr. Misty Freeze”—but I can never remember for sure, so every time I go to a diary bar, DQ or otherwise, I have to describe what I want to the person young enough to be my great-granddaughter, and she looks at me like, “What kind of an asshole comes to a dairy bar and doesn't know exactly what they want, and by name?” I'm exactly that kind of asshole—that describes me perfectly.

Soap Review No. 92