06/16/2024
“According to Ashley Olmstead, founder and owner of Quail Store, rotating soaps and wall-mounted holders have been used in public washrooms throughout France since the 1950s—you’re supposedly meant to get a thousand hand washes out of every bar. ‘Because it’s not sitting in a dish and deteriorating in water, it makes it last so much longer,” she says. “For those big commercial usages, it was preferred. I think even the sensory experience of using that oval is so cool; it’s a fun, nice hand washing experience’.”
Even washing your hands is a better experience in Paris
