ArtWash Web Log

1. • Sneezy • Exotic places • Childhood baths • Elderly ladies • Spring breeze 2. • Hotels • soaps brought back from France as a present • when we were kids • menthol shampoo • laundry • yuck • soapy cucumberrt • granny • lemon sherbet • toilet duck • imperial leather 3. • Caretakers • Hippy • Cycle tyres • Hotel soap • Industrial • Lemon • Family 4. • Wrights Coal Tar, my father 5. • Is 10 imperial leather? A soap I would buy my father every Christmas 6. • School soap • Cheap soap • Sandy soap • Soft soap • Swimming soap • Lost soap • Agreeable soap • insoluble soap • grey soap • floor soap • soggy soap • cracked soap • liquid squeezy soap • liquid tip-up • liquid ooze out soap • fragrant sneeze soap • multipack regretted soap • 7. • kid swould never smile and never whiff if soap could clean with just a sniff 8. • Sunlight (fairy) Doing washing in the river, on a smooth flat stone 9. • Hospital • lemongrass/bergamot • jasmine • rats will eat soap my friend Kerry will always be found in the soap isle – smelling and opening the lids of shampoos • musky/patchouli/Indian soap • bubblegum • mop buckets and caretakers • childhood • soap for washing clothes is great 10. • The smell of Coal Tar soap reminds me of my grandfather, who used to spend and hour in the bathroom reading or rather looking at porn which he hid inside the cover of the Radio Times. 11. • Evokes an imaginary Victorian childhood • Proper soap –clean soap • Smells that hide 12. • Fairy Liquid as shampoo • Lots of squeezy bottles for Blue Peter projects (just in case) • Roger gallet soap in Mum’s knicker drawer, hidden pearl • Never wash with it, it’s a waste of fragrance 13. • Lemony frangrant squeezy • Oily • Super lemony/ disinfectant • Floral Victorian • Hotel bath • Coal Tar – manly • Herbal medicine • Fresh lemon woods 14. • Refreshers • School floors • My mum’s bedroom drawer • Poster paints 15. Queuing to sniff, I get a whiff Of Ricketts leather camay And sunlights liught Mild fairy boys To pears of castile lux And here we trail off cos we lost the soap plot. 16. • chemically over scented • pungent • overwhelming loos and school 17. • Junior school • Childhood bath time • Pot porri • Grans • Bonfire night • Well to do B&B owner • Music course near Alton Towers • Opal fruits • Herbal bath salts • Too much soap wont come off in soft water 18. My young son threw a very expensive soap from the Middle East that his grandma had brought back froma holiday into the garden bushes – it was never found again. 19. I still remember as a child using “Le Chat” soap. A square block of white soap. I would be frantically washing my hands with this soap until eventually it dissolved to a small lump hiding a glass marble I wanted to get: i.e. “the cats eye”. 20. Lemon for me every time

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