Can I admit something here? I hate decorative soaps. I have a gallon-sized plastic Ziplock bag in my bathroom that serves as a decorative soaps graveyard, where those waxy, over-scented bars go to die. What exactly do you do with decorative soaps? You can't shower with them (I learned this the hard way after running out of normal soap and desperately breaking into a package of French soaps shaped like those men in bowler hats from Magritte's paintings). You can't put them in a soap dish next to the sink (thus tricking your unsuspecting house guests into a fate similar to the afore-mentiond showering experience). So what exactly is their purpose?
Well, German designer Andreas Kraeftner might have finally changed my mind about decorative soaps with his Ghetto Basics decorative soap design:
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