imperial leather soap (with the magnet)

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Splitting off from the smells that remind you thread......

It reminded me of the time I used to go travel as a child
down to Listowel to my Aunt's house who for some reason always had the most expensive soap and yellow listerine
and arm and hammer pink coloured tootpaste. Horrific as none of these products as a child were nice.

The only postive memory I had in my child hood when it came to the items in the aunts bathroom was the soap.

She always had Imperial Leather Soap. This came in a peach like colour and had a very thick metal black coloured rectangle shaped logo on it. What made this special and stood apart from other soaps at the time was that it was designed to actually fit onto a stand where a magnet held the soap off of the sink. This was truely amazing to a kid that knew nothing about magnetic forces at the time and to every other adult at the time it was considered a posh thing to have.

Same Aunt was the only person I have ever met (at the time) to have an automatic electric can opener! that lasted over ten years before it finally broke and the same Aunt who was the only member of the family to get a toasted sandwhich maker at the time! Same aunt was the first person to buy me a pair of levi blue jeans with the golden coloured threads
where at the time in Ireland wearing a pair of jeans when not a fully grown adult was unusual for the times.

While over the years there has been several varients of this magnetic soap
if anyone finds the exact model used by Imperial lether please post pics!

~B