I've decided to write a little series of posts about items and inventions that are essential and/or dear to me.
My first item is soap.
Now, you hear a lot of raving about iPads or Lady Gaga tracks, and while I do see the allure of both, neither compares even remotely with soap.
I mean neither soap operas, nor the so-called soap lands they have in Japan, but real bathroom soap. The stuff you use to wash your hands, and body. If you are male you use it to wash your face, too. Females have a large selection of mysterious substances found within tubes and tubs for washing their faces, but in our all-male house-hold, all we got is bar soap.
But we are picky about the brand. It has to be Palmolive Naturals or Johnson's Pure Essentials. The other soap brands they have here either don't clean properly or leave some sort of slimey residue that only about a dozen rinses with ten barrels of water will get off.
If you have a world with plenty of iPads but no soap, what would your world be like? How would you get grease off your hands? How would you remove honey from your fingers after eating sandwiches? The smell of poop when you accidentally (or intentionally) touch it?
How would you get rid of those greases and secretions that humans produce in abundant supply? How would you procreate with your principals of hygiene intact?
Qirina returns 227 sites for "soap" and 1,199 for "ipad" which shows you how skewed society's appreciation is of what's important.
A world without soap would not be a world I would want to live in. For this reason alone, I scoff in disgust at people who romanticize the Middle Ages. Even in super-civilized Japan, all they had to clean themselves was rice husks which were used to scrub the skin, removing grime and dead cells.
I love the idea of eco-friendly green living and all that, but no way I am trading in my OceanFresh brand bath soap for rice husks.
How about you? Rice husks and iPad, or soap?
My first item is soap.
Now, you hear a lot of raving about iPads or Lady Gaga tracks, and while I do see the allure of both, neither compares even remotely with soap.
I mean neither soap operas, nor the so-called soap lands they have in Japan, but real bathroom soap. The stuff you use to wash your hands, and body. If you are male you use it to wash your face, too. Females have a large selection of mysterious substances found within tubes and tubs for washing their faces, but in our all-male house-hold, all we got is bar soap.
But we are picky about the brand. It has to be Palmolive Naturals or Johnson's Pure Essentials. The other soap brands they have here either don't clean properly or leave some sort of slimey residue that only about a dozen rinses with ten barrels of water will get off.
If you have a world with plenty of iPads but no soap, what would your world be like? How would you get grease off your hands? How would you remove honey from your fingers after eating sandwiches? The smell of poop when you accidentally (or intentionally) touch it?
How would you get rid of those greases and secretions that humans produce in abundant supply? How would you procreate with your principals of hygiene intact?
Qirina returns 227 sites for "soap" and 1,199 for "ipad" which shows you how skewed society's appreciation is of what's important.
A world without soap would not be a world I would want to live in. For this reason alone, I scoff in disgust at people who romanticize the Middle Ages. Even in super-civilized Japan, all they had to clean themselves was rice husks which were used to scrub the skin, removing grime and dead cells.
I love the idea of eco-friendly green living and all that, but no way I am trading in my OceanFresh brand bath soap for rice husks.
How about you? Rice husks and iPad, or soap?