Pacha Soap Co. – Lavender & Blue Tansy Bar Soap

“Mood Indigo”

The usual good-for-your-skin Pacha ingredients, plus Lavender and Blue Tansy essential oils, which are supposed to be calming. Which we can all use. It smells really good—to me, more like lavender than anything. And what is blue tansy, besides, yeah, the band, Blue Tansy? It’s a flower from which this magical oil is extracted. But get this—it’s yellow. And that’s where the weirdness starts. Well, the flower is yellow, but when it’s processed (extracted, heated, etc.) it turns deep blue in color. And of course, lavender is lavender. The real mystery to me is how they make soap with distinct color patterns. (I know, it’s probably easily explained in a YouTube video, but I don’t want to know, see? I like the mystery!) When I bought the roughhewn, rectangular bar, deep blue in color, there were two darkish yellow circles, which you can tell are probably cylinders running through. As I’ve used it, one the circles got to the edge and it’s even weirder—also, the blue part seems to erode a little faster than the yellow, which makes for an even more interesting progress. I love this soap! For no good reason, that just reminded me of the Fuzzy Wuzzy soap from my childhood—these animal shaped soaps that actually grew hair! Horrifying, unexplained, weirdness from childhood! And to this day, I’m overly fascinated with art (and that includes soap) that changes, physically, over time, like Liederkranz cheese, some sculptures, and yes, soap, and, of course, people.

Soap Review No. 241