{"id":2340,"date":"2010-08-17T15:42:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T21:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2010-08-17T15:42:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T21:42:58","slug":"man-versus-soap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/17\/man-versus-soap\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Versus Soap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>WHY<\/b> does soap have to be so complicated? The other day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/cckaty82\">my wife<\/a> handed me some alleged body wash that apparently claims as its primary function &#8220;exfoliation&#8221; &#8212; or &#8220;moisturizing&#8221; &#8212; or some other ludicrous buzzword. Look, soap marketing people, here&#8217;s what I want when I take a shower:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stuff to shampoo my hair<\/li>\n<li>Stuff to condition my hair<\/li>\n<li>Stuff to clean my face<\/li>\n<li>Stuff to clean my body<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I do not need or want to <i>infuse<\/i> my hair or any other part of me with complexities, I don&#8217;t care about the bottle texts&#8217; creativity, I just want to wash off, okay? Though&#8230;I admit&#8230;this might be fun to try out:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=width: 400px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/showershock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/showershock.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Much Too Much\" width=\"400\" height=\"297\" wp-image-38\" srcset=\"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/showershock.jpg 400w, https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/showershock-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caffeinated soap<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>P.S. I blogged this while about 30,000 feet over New Mexico and Texas!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-flattr-button\"><a class=\"FlattrButton\" style=\"display:none;\" href=\"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/17\/man-versus-soap\/\" title=\" Man Versus Soap\" rev=\"flattr;uid:DouglasLucas;language:en_GB;category:text;tags:Health,Kate,Nature,blog;\">WHY does soap have to be so complicated? The other day my wife handed me some alleged body wash that apparently claims as its primary function &#8220;exfoliation&#8221; &#8212; or &#8220;moisturizing&#8221;...<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHY does soap have to be so complicated? The other day my wife handed me some alleged body wash that apparently claims as its primary function &#8220;exfoliation&#8221; &#8212; or &#8220;moisturizing&#8221; &#8212; or some other ludicrous buzzword. Look, soap marketing people, here&#8217;s what I want when I take a shower: Stuff to shampoo my hair Stuff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,15],"tags":[100,105,107],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-kate","category-nature","tag-health","tag-kate","tag-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6429,"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions\/6429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}