Want to cleanse both your body AND you mind? Well, now to can! Just buy this incredibly depressing, land mine-shaped soap and viola! The world is a better place.
From the site:
"Soap can be molded into any shape, and soap diminishes and disappears with use... a very poetic metaphor for landmine removal - as the soap disappears, so do the landmines. Through its use, Cleanup enables people to participate in the campaign against landmines with a simple, everyday occurrence."
At first I thought was a very weird, but pretty cool idea. Then I read this:
"About This Soap
Cleanup retails for $8.00 per bar.
$2.00 per bar is earmarked for donation to our de-mining partners."
As someone who has made soap and knows how little it costs to make, I have to say that I find this to be a total rip off, and for what? If $2 goes to de-mining efforts, then the soap should be $3. Period. Damn art school bastards (to see what the hell I'm talking about, click here
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