Soap news: What’s in, what’s out
Soap dominates the news this week.
SOAP NEWS #1: The Los Angeles Times reports. on April 17, 2007::
Drug tests exonerate punk rocker
[Don] Bolles, 50, the legendary drummer for the Germs, spent three days in jail after Newport Beach police said they found GHB, the date-rape drug, inside a bottle of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap in Bolles’ 1968 Dodge van.
Police ran a field test on the yellowish goop after stopping Bolles for a broken taillight on April 4.
But a more sophisticated analysis by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department crime lab detected no GHB in the soap, officials said Monday. As a result, all charges against Bolles will be dismissed, a spokeswoman for the Orange County district attorney’s office said.
SOAP NEWS #2: Reuters reports, on April 20, 2007:
Bar of soap gives caffeine kick in the shower
Inventors have created a soap infused with caffeine which helps users wake up in the morning.
The soap, called Shower Shock, supplies the caffeine equivalent of two cups of coffee per wash, with the stimulant absorbed naturally through the skin, manufacturers say. “Tired of waking up and having to wait for your morning (coffee) to brew?” ask the makers…
(Thanks to investigator Mary O’Grady for bringing the Dr. Bronner’s soap to our attention, and to investigator Tom Ulrich for alerting us to the caffeinated cleaner.)