Livin’ Soap Free and Lovin’ It!
Not me. Ever, if I can help it. If the apocalypse comes and there’s no more soap, I can promise you that my cleansing ritual will include the daily removal of at least one layer of skin using a handful of sand or some tree bark. Seriously, I have to be clean. I adore chlorinated water not only for the lap-swimming perfection the lane lines afford me, but also for the life-crushing qualities of chlorine. You would be surprised what chlorine can annihilate. It makes me feel safe.
Sean Bonner has gone eighteen months without soap or shampoo. Good for him. He’s one up on the rest of us if Mad Max rides into town with the four horsemen of the apocalypse. And think of the money he’s saving! One more item on the list of stuff college students don’t have to pay for. Textbooks, beer, or soap…one of them has to go.
Posted by Alexa Harrington
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Homo Sap has gotten along for most of our existence without soap. But not needing soap is also pretty tightly connected with living a very primitive hunter-gatherer lifestyle with few to no clothes. If someone wants to live that way, and can find a place where they can do so, then go it. But as for me, I prefer to live in civilization, wear clothes, have indoor plumbing, …, and use soap. I do use Castile soap but that is because of being an ORF and needing to keep my skin for flaking off. Speaking as a physicist I would offer that soap very closely follows beer on the list of most important technological developments of humans.
Why wouldn’t we choose beer to go… It is possible to live without it, but impossible without soap!