Scubbing in Style:
If you like to pay fine attention to the mundane as I do, have a look at Soap in the City, a New York store specializing in handmade soaps of every conceivable size, texture, odor and sensation. It’s not cheap stuff, but fun to think of rubbing yourself with a cucumber/honey/cinnamon sugar mix with a great smell and feeling as your reward. I walked out with a bar of read clay something, that felt neat and looked like showering with a bar of raw earth.
Warning: Their site has a completely illogical, hard-to-navigate design but the clerk told me they do a decent ecommerce business and seem nice enough that they’d let you return a soap you didn’t like the smell of it. But I’d ask them first.