Amelia Lester
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Body wash has come to dominate the personal hygiene market.
And this is in part because bath soap users skew old.
People over 55 love some bar soap, whereas 18 to 34-year-olds think that it's dirty and gross.
I need to play you a grab that I think is to blame for why young people think that soap is dirty and awful, and it comes from a show called Friends.
You may have heard of it.
And here is Joey spreading lies about bar soap to Chandler.
Chandler is exactly right.
Some scientists with too much time on their hands put some E. coli, some actual E. coli on soap.
to see whether it would get contaminated when people used it on their hands.
It didn't because soap is soap.
It is self-cleaning.
It can't grow because it's on soap.
It's like vaginas in ovens.
I don't need the history.
It was in Slate if anyone wants to read it.
Now hotels are apparently building in that kind of bolted on soap that makes me feel like I'm in a prison.