Handmade small-batch soaps look pretty and smell delicious,
especially when sold at farmer’s markets in blocks, which are sliced to order,
wrapped in tissue and sealed with a little sticker. You often find that the
soap has been studded with chunks of other soap for color or aroma. Perhaps an
opaque base of shea butter soap is married with some clear gelatin-based
concoction.
Here is a soap meant to impart a minty freshness to your
daily bathing routine. Serve it with lettuce and . . . wait . . . this isn’t
soap!
Salad Book, Better
Homes and Gardens, 1969
