Fresh Thyme – Jasmine Gardenia Bar Soap

“Spanish Captain”

I love when some grocery stores have their own brand of “bulk” soap like this—huge piles of it, like it could be used as toy building blocks for kids who aren’t exclusive to the screen. Or maybe somewhere between “failed experiment on its way to the recycling” and “gold bars at Fort Knox”—and with this soap, I’ll go with the latter. You can put it in the little paper sleeves they offer, or you can just use no packaging whatsoever! I’d like to think they might give you a discount if you bought a box-load of it—though I wouldn’t do that, with my obsession with variety. At some point in the past, I had a gardenia scented soap that was one of my favorites, so I’m always looking for gardenia. (Though I also had one, different brand, that smelled kind of like poop, so you never know…) I’m not confident enough about the fragrance of jasmine and the fragrance of gardenia to know exactly what I’m smelling here, in which version, of each, and in what combination, but this soap is one of my favorites this year, for sure. It’s so lovely, I went right out and bought a second bar of it (and it was on sale and dirt cheap). Really, this is a good one. I think the ingredients are good, too—at any rate, it’s good on my skin. I can’t find anything about it online—which, in a way, makes me like it even more, Of course, there is a thoughtful, intelligent review of it—or at least there will be, as soon as I post this!

Soap Review No. 230