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This is the place for all the soap things that don't belong anywhere else but still deserve a page of their own.... movie quotes and pics, trivia and factoids. I'll add to it any time I run across something cool and worthy, so come back whenever ya feel like it (well, maybe more often). If you find something cool and worthy, by all means let me know - coolstuff@lather-soaps.com . Enjoy! ~ Kathleen

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The all-time classic discourse on subtle differences between brands of soap. By Ralphie. "Over the years I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap. My personal preference is Lux, but I found Palmolive had a nice, piquant after dinner flavor - heady, but with just a touch of mellow smoothness......... Lifebouy, on the other hand.... slyeccch!" "A Christmas Story", 1981. Peter Billingsley as Ralphie Parker. Thanks to Billy (brother, mine) for the great screen caps.

By far the most obscure item I've run across, to date… from the Internet Movie Database (www.ImdB.com), a reference to a film made over 100 years ago: 'Making Soap Bubbles' (1897) "A group of seven children gathered about a tub of soap suds, pushing and jostling for preference. This is an exterior scene, full of animation and free from artificiality. The figures are clearly defined, well in the foreground, and the group well composed. The familiar scene of children blowing soap bubbles from clay pipes is here shown under natural conditions." Summary written by Edison Catalog [a "plot writer" in the late 1890's] Color: Black and White

"You gotta respect the soap." - Brad Pitt Three points, here (Kathleen speaking now): first, since I use only plant oils in my soap, I clearly don't make it the same way they do in this movie... which leads me to point two: I cannot say anything to the story's character's claim of what the ingredients of soap also make... I'm not sure it's even true, and I only included it (the claim) as part of the quote. Point three: if you haven't seen this movie and it never occurred to you that you might want to, then, don't see it. Don't get me wrong - it's a great flick, but definitely not for everybody! (here endeth the disclaimers....!!) Fight Club. "Mischief. Mayhem. Soap." excerpt from Premiere magazine article/interview: "Brad Pitt & Edward Norton make 'Fight Club' ", August 1999 by Johanna Schneller. "[director] David Fincher is huddled over a camera in a tiny clearing in the center of a vast soundstage. He's shooting a bar of soap. Now, soap is pivotal to Fight Club. The hardcover book jacket features a pink bar of it on a black background. (Fincher wanted the image to be the movie's poster, too, but he lost that one - a $68 million Brad Pitt film without Brad Pitt on the poster?) Tyler Durden makes soap and sells it for $20 a bar. The ingredients that make soap, you see, also make bombs. For authenticity, Pitt and Norton even took soap-making classes from a woman called Auntie Godmother, who runs a boutique company. 'It's a real craft,' Norton says. 'There's all this room for creativity and invention around the basic formula.' 'We made a lovely mint glycerin soap,' Pitt says dreamily. 'You can burn yourself badly, though,' Norton adds. 'Yeah, you're handling lye,' Pitt says. 'You gotta respect the soap.' "

Didjaknow? The term "soap opera" originated early in the 20th century, when the first commercials ever broadcast were heard during serial radio programs sponsored by Proctor & Gamble, advertising bar soap.

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