Zest – Toronja & Albahaca

“Subtle Clues”

You don’t have to spend much money to get fairly exotic soap—I got this at the Cermak grocery store, in Milwaukee, for the price of grocery store soap. It’s Zest, but it’s Mexican Zest—ingredients in Spanish, but I don’t know what most of them are, anyway. It’s a translucent pink glycerin soap, and it smells really good. The “Toronja” in the name is grapefruit, and since the package shows a big, sliced grapefruit, no mystery there. That’s also, partially, what it smells like. There are some other flavors going on as well. The Albahaca is a little more mysterious—and there’s a green leaf, on the package, next to the grapefruit, and it looks like albahaca. I’ve got to ask the Big Brain about that one—so what I think it is, is a medicinal plant, similar to basil, that has more uses than gin on Sunday. This is a fun soap that’ll wake you up and leave you refreshed. It also has that weird shape that I’ve seen before (maybe a previous Zest?) that reminds me of a 1960s telephone. Or something like that—anyway, you can’t call collect—use it as a soap!

Soap Review No. 211