I just wanted to figure out what the best bar was.
The man got curious about which bar of soap was actually any good. The shower aisle is bigger than it needs to be and most of it underwhelms.
So the project is straightforward. Buy a bar. Use the bar. Score it across five axes (lather, scent, value, lasts, skin). Write up what survived. Move to the next one.
Each bar gets the same daily form, the same scoring, the same dry write-up. Same shower, same skin, same nose. The result is a single shelf of reviews that you can compare like for like.
A lot of bars come in multipacks. One bar is enough to score; the rest sit in the cupboard doing nothing. So the spare bars get donated. There's a running list of where they end up on the where bars go page.
The site has affiliate links to Amazon and one or two other places. The man gets a small cut; you pay the same. If you'd rather just throw some change in the dish, the donate panel is below. Money in goes straight back out on more soap, with a fund set aside for charity once the totals get serious.
No newsletter. No thank-you emails. Just soap, scored honestly, by one man in one shower.
If you'd like to help test the next batch, the squad is open. One man can only wash so much.
Honest aside: structure is the hard bit. For some people, the showering itself is the climb. If that's you, the squad might be worth a look. A daily prompt, one small thing to log, a few other people doing the same thing on the same morning. Nobody marking your card. Just a quiet ledger, decent soap, and company.
Your own lather year. Same five axes, same daily prompt, your own running record.
Bars the man hasn't met yet. Propose them. Score them. They join the main shelf.
The bar in the drawer you'll never use. Log it. It goes somewhere it's needed.
* ROUGH MATH: EACH BAR USED REPLACES ABOUT 1.4 PLASTIC SHOWER-GEL BOTTLES.