So I was roaming the mall today and I found a store that sold nothing but fancy soap. Fucking soap.
How do you stay in business selling fucking soap?
Anyways I went in and strolled around a bit. There was a lot of styling people in there. But the soap was like 10 dollars. For fucking soap.
I opened one of the jars and it looked like someone just fapped performed fap sauce into it. They even had a picture of the person who made (sorry) I mean fapped out the soap.
I can understand perfume obviously, but does soapy perfumed jizz really stay on your body that long?
Srlsy I can't understand this...
:?
anything "organic" costs more :lulz:
Quote from: Yatto on December 30, 2009, 10:41:42 PM
anything "organic" costs more :lulz:
It occurs to me that *I* am organic, and I should charge more when I whore myself out to The Man.
I am a sucker for fancy soap but the fancy soap I like is made by people at home who sell it at, like gift fairs and shit.
You think that's bad, at least soap is always being sold. People get smelly regardless.
In St Andrews, they have a Christmas store. Open all year around.
Quote from: Cain on December 30, 2009, 10:48:45 PM
You think that's bad, at least soap is always being sold. People get smelly regardless.
In St Andrews, they have a Christmas store. Open all year around.
Open year round?!
that's fucking awesome.....
so during the off months (most of the year) i would assume they get shit for traffic and maintain just a skeleton staff?
get a big group of people together to slowly filter into the store until it is packed with "shoppers" and record the reaction of the clerk...
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on December 30, 2009, 10:40:10 PM
So I was roaming the mall today and I found a store that sold nothing but fancy soap. Fucking soap.
How do you stay in business selling fucking soap?
Anyways I went in and strolled around a bit. There was a lot of styling people in there. But the soap was like 10 dollars. For fucking soap.
I opened one of the jars and it looked like someone just fapped performed fap sauce into it. They even had a picture of the person who made (sorry) I mean fapped out the soap.
I can understand perfume obviously, but does soapy perfumed jizz really stay on your body that long?
Srlsy I can't understand this...
:?
Theres a market for appearance augmentation in many forms. Perfumed soap is just one of them.
Some people will go to extraordinary lengths to say, "I and my money are better than you".
The other possible reason is that some people really enjoy bathtime and smelling "fresh" or whatever.
In other words, WHY DO YOU HATE FREEDOM?
TI, i know you are canadian and dont understand bathing, but some of us like to smell good. DONT JUDGE
this reminds me...
i better get my pope soap ON A ROPE
before the Vatican orders them all destroyed
The OP answers itself.
How does a soap store stay in business?
The soap is ten dollars.
supplier must be tyler durden
Quote from: BAI on December 31, 2009, 11:28:21 AM
Theres a shop in Chester, UK that sells nothing but cheese. fucking great shop that. and one of those expensive organic hand made soap jobbies. Been there for years. You could not move in there during the run up to xmas.
Both the cheese shop and soap shop that is, as everyone's mam loves soap, and, usually is a fan of cheese. If not she can GTFO.
I could understand the fancy for expensive cheese, because ish tasty and it can go expensive like wine for its taste and crap.
But god, its not like $10 soap gonna make your skin sparkly like in the movies, or any more beautiful than a $3 one. I buy the "neutro" kind because its got less reactivity with the high calcium/oxides in the water here, so my skin doesnt clog up (ive heard of Calgon several times and have a vague idea of what it is, but i havent seen something to exist around here); and that one i use itself is about $1.5.
would be nice to open a showerhead store next door
At the supermarket the upper eschelon of cheese prices ive seen is $38/kg.
A cheese shop is nothing special or is it? I think we must have at least 2 or 3 in town. Not that I go there often, because the smelly cheese smell is slightly nauseating that I don't wanna browse too long.
And at the streetmarket there's a cheese-only stand some days of the week. I usually avoid it for the same reason :-P
Even though I really like cheese.
I like it better when it's wrapped in plastic :) [well, I suppose it's just a few exceptionally smelly ones contributing to most of the odour]
The soap-only shop ... while I can imagine such a thing existing ... I would rather have it did not. Because basically the entire cosmetics industry is a crapload of lies and crap. I just gave my gf a little test-packet of "male skin body cream" or whatever it was cause she needed some cream to put on her hands which were dry and we didnt have any other, and it said--get this--IT CONTAINED THE EQUIVALENT OF 5000 LITERS OF SPA WATER!! fuck shit damn what does that even mean? it was one milliliter of blueish cream. so that makes it a concentration of 5 million to one. it is just a blatant lie, because I'm 99.9% sure that there is nothing in that packet that cuold even remotely be construed as "equivalent to 5000 liters of spa water", sure you say, they could have evaporated all the water and put in the mineral residue. yes. they could have. but they didn't. I'm willing to bet the price of one medium-sized bottle of that crap on that the shit never even got fucking anywhere in the vicinity of 5000 liters of spa water, hell not even the stock footage of that splashy image except for writing it on the packet.
Sure it smells good. And it made my gf's hands less dry and that made her happy.
My brother studies industrial design school and he told me he got a guest class from a marketing guy one time. He said "in advertising, it's not strictly illegal to lie, however if you do so and your consumers find out they usually will not be very happy and this means bad things for the image of your product. The single exception to this general rule is the cosmetics industry".
Really. Just pay a smidgeon of attention for a little while. There is no commercial industry that so blatantly, in your face, insulting your intelligence, flat out LIES in whatever they advertize, sell and write on their packaging, as the cosmetics industry.
If you want a horrormirth sides-aching laugh. Go to your local Douglas or whatever the high end perfume cosmetic store is called, walk over to the skin creams and "care" products, pick some of the more expensive ones and read the fucking labels. Just read. Think about what they actually say. Sunlight in a can? Microlipides? Wait prism shaped silica gels? Holographic 3D shine powder?
Really, it's your modern day fairy dust.
Read it.
Maybe all the women on this board already know this, then it's a message for the males, if you don't go there usually, check it out.
Quote from: Triple Zero on December 31, 2009, 04:08:37 PM
If you want a horrormirth sides-aching laugh. Go to your local Douglas or whatever the high end perfume cosmetic store is called, walk over to the skin creams and "care" products, pick some of the more expensive ones and read the fucking labels. Just read. Think about what they actually say. Sunlight in a can? Microlipides? Wait prism shaped silica gels? Holographic 3D shine powder?
How much of it do you think is just yak ass?
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on December 30, 2009, 10:40:10 PM
So I was roaming the mall today and I found a store that sold nothing but fancy soap. Fucking soap.
How do you stay in business selling fucking soap?
Anyways I went in and strolled around a bit. There was a lot of styling people in there. But the soap was like 10 dollars. For fucking soap.
I opened one of the jars and it looked like someone just fapped performed fap sauce into it. They even had a picture of the person who made (sorry) I mean fapped out the soap.
I can understand perfume obviously, but does soapy perfumed jizz really stay on your body that long?
Srlsy I can't understand this...
:?
LUSH!
wow I also learned they are not tested on animals...
cause testing on people is way more fun!
Quote from: Suu on December 31, 2009, 05:38:37 PM
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on December 30, 2009, 10:40:10 PM
So I was roaming the mall today and I found a store that sold nothing but fancy soap. Fucking soap.
How do you stay in business selling fucking soap?
Anyways I went in and strolled around a bit. There was a lot of styling people in there. But the soap was like 10 dollars. For fucking soap.
I opened one of the jars and it looked like someone just fapped performed fap sauce into it. They even had a picture of the person who made (sorry) I mean fapped out the soap.
I can understand perfume obviously, but does soapy perfumed jizz really stay on your body that long?
Srlsy I can't understand this...
:?
LUSH!
SECONDED
I knew it was so the second I read the first post. lol
That said, DON'T H8 ON LUSH! Because their soap is pretty damn good, and their shampoo bars last for fucking 6months. So if you think about it from that perspective, you'd be spending at least as much on other shampoo that doesn't last nearly as long.
Although I must say this...their fucking soap tins are horrid because all they do is trap the damn thing in so you can't get it out. Then you're stuck trying to cut the fucking thing off the damn bar of soap, and end up mutilating the whole thing. :argh!:
I guess nice smelling soap is a good gift for people too cheap to buy perfume.
What I don't understand is those fancy soaps that look like cupcakes, they just seem rather impractical.
dove makes good chocolate and soap
eta: impractical soap is like impractical candles or flowers on a dining room table
worthless to some, but invaluable to others.