This Is Us
Bar Soap: A Love Story
To all the suds I’ve loved before
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5 min readMar 11, 2021
It is a season of sodium salts and stinging, cracking hands. When the pandemic broke out, I was in Mexico City, where the streets smell of pork frying and lemon Fabuloso. Restaurants and cafés started filling empty bottles of liquid hand soap with that neon yellow elixir: half water, half household cleaner, dementedly…
