Okay here's a weird one for you! Soap! What about soap you ask or wonder why this topic? Well, this morning in preparation for getting ready for the day I jumped in the shower which most people do. If you don't that’s your business!
Anyway, as I showered I began to think about my soap and how it just wasn’t lathering very well and how I was annoyed because of it! I then thought about all the soaps that I’ve used – past to present. Let’s see there was Dial and Safeguard as I was growing up (yuck), then there was Lever 2000 and Pear soap…all compliments of dear mom. Mmmm, I’ve also used Irish Spring (which is interesting in itself – good lather though), Dove soap, and some homemade Oatmeal, White Tea Herbal concoctions’.
These days I am using Oil of Olay because it’s supposed to be so great, blah, blah, blah. So then I thought again about my soap and its lack of lather and wondered why, just why aren’t you lathering? Is my soap failing me? It’s bad enough I continually test various lotions! Are the mechanics of my body getting horrible? I know I am getting older…I mean wiser, but what gives? Why do things such as this annoy me? Showers in the AM are supposed to be refreshing and rejuvenating – they are supposed to jump start ones day!
I guess I shouldn’t complain or think too hard about it. I should just move on and test out a new soap – because it’s all about change, right? As the old saying goes, “Cleanliness is next to Godliness”! Well, really? Is it?
So the real question is: Is it just me or have others experienced the lack of lather? Any recommendations for a lustful lather? (Ignore the word lustful here…I think you get my drift!)
p.s Want to know where the phrase cleanliness is next to godliness came from…well there are tons of internet searches. Here’s one of many:
[CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS - "This ancient proverb is said by some to have come from ancient Hebrew writings. However, its first appearance in English - though in slightly altered form - seems to be in the writings of Francis Bacon. In his 'Advancement of Learning' (1605) he wrote: 'Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.' Near two centuries later John Wesley in one of his sermons (1791) indicated that the proverb was already well known in the form we use today. Wrote Wesley: 'Slovenliness is no part of religion.' Cleanliness is indeed next to Godliness.'" From "Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins" by William and Mary Morris (HarperCollins, New York, 1977, 1988). There are a couple more details in "Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" (1996) by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996): ".According to the fourteenth edition of 'Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,' it is an old Hebrew proverb used in the late 2nd century by Rabbi Phinehas ben-Yair. First attested in the United States in the 'Monthly Anthology and Boston Review' (1806). The proverb is found in varying forms."]
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