<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Eastbay1K:
France has the lowest per-capita consumption of soap usage in western Europe.[/B]</font>
To be more specific, of
bathing (or toilet) soap which is a pricy item. The French still sell general purpose soap in large bars for laundry andother purposes and this sells in huge quantities. They're cut down to smaller pieces at home and used for bathing soap.