Being a fan of both handmade soaps and Doctor Who, the moment I heard about TARDIS soap, I knew I had to get one. The first one I heard about is made Geeky Clean. There was a bit of a mix up that I will talk about later in this entry, but it resulted in me also purchasing another TARDIS soap by Luxury Lane Soaps.
I’ll talk about each soap individually, but in the above photo, the Luxury Lane soap is on the left and the Geeky Clean soap is on the right.
Geeky Clean’s TARDIS Soap
Geeky Clean’s soap is available on both their site and Doctor Who North America for $10. The soap measures 6″ x 1.5″ and weighs about 14oz. As described, it smells like a vanilla custard, but I’m also getting a bit of citrus.
The police box sign and windows are printed on paper and attached to the plastic wrapper. The soap is extremely detailed on the front and sides, but there’s no detail on the back.
As I mentioned above, there was a problem with my order that was probably due to the fact I placed my order with a thousand other people who bought one after Wil Wheaton mentioned it on his Twitter. I placed my order at the end of October and after about a month, I contacted the shop owner via both e-mail and twitter. Twitter was much more effective, for anyone needing to contact Geeky Clean. Still, it was about another month before my order was finally shipped out, The shop owner was very apologetic and offered a partial refund and a free soap. It seems I was unfortunate enough to get lost in the shuffle of the pile of orders, but I did appreciate the effort made to finally get my order to me. I have a couple other Geeky Clean soaps that I bought and have to try, but I would probably order from them again.
Luxury Lane Soap’s TARDIS Soap
Luxury Lane’s soap is available from their site for $12.50. It weighs about 8oz. and measures 4″x2″x2″. The soap has a really lovely rose scent that’s more green than powdery. It’s my favorite kind of rose scent!
The order arrived from Luxury Lane in about a week. I’m keen to try her other soaps, but I wish the rose scent of this Tardis soap was available in a soap bar. I would buy those in an instant!
[Update: Kylee Lane contacted me via Twitter to let me know that the TARDIS Rose scent is available in her hemp bath line! I have purchased a hemp beauty bar and a hemp massage bar and will be reviewing those.]
The police box signs and windows are also printed on paper like the Geeky Clean soap, but there’s a bit more detail and they are attached to the soap itself. The soap can be viewed from any side and there’s nice wood grain texture on all the surfaces.
The Luxury Lane soap is my favorite of the two Tardis soaps. Of course, it’s so pretty that I can’t really bring myself to use it. Instead, I’ve put it in a glass jar with some fake moss. If you decide to do this too, here’s a tip: cut a piece of plastic to put under the soap or else it will absorb the dye in the fake moss and leave green spots!
It looks great sitting on a mirrored shelf in my bathroom!
I haven’t actually used either soap as… soap, but both of these are quite nice and worth the purchase. The different attributes of each might make you decide to buy one over another, so I hope this review was helpful!
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