If you’re truly a typography geek, then why stop at just outfitting your office and your bedroom with lust-worthy fonts? We just spotted this rad translucent soap created by Debbie Chialtas at The Soap Lab on the design site FredFlare. The square soap features raised letters and punctuation and we’re geeked about the fact we can get clean and look fresh while doing so. Just one thing to note – the “Crushed Ice” scent means it smells like peppermint, though logic says it should be fragrance-free. Well, that’s it, we’re off to sniff the ice in our freezer. And, for writers, The Soap Lab also offers a “Writer’s Block” soap that features a gluttony of words to get your brain churning.

Any job well done requires getting your hands just a little dirty. Unfortunately, the soiling of one’s digits is usually followed by a fierce bout of scrubbing that doesn’t always remove the grit and grime to it’s desired effect. If your maximum amount of elbow grease isn’t up to the task, perhaps you should up your intimidation factor and show that sludge what might happen if it doesn’t take notice of who’s boss. Harlem-based design company Spye has just the thing to send quite a fright through your filthy fingertips. Their soap knuckles cast from the genuine brass kind and made from all natural glycerin soap are sure to make that which is unclean glow anew with a sparkly shine…or else.

The minds behind New Soap, Old Bottle are marketing multifuncionality in the form of new liquid soap sold in reused plastic and glass bottles. After being sanitized, the former Coke and Heineken bottles are filled with home or car cleaner, topped with child safe caps, and sold at $4 a pop. “Big companies aren’t going to do this on their own. So we’ll do it for them,” said Scott Amron, designer, electrical engineer and founding principal of New York’s Amron Exprimental. “We buy brand name liquid soap by the barrel and package it in old bottles here in America.” Recessionistas and green thumbs rejoice– we love this work.

Can anyone guess the bottles above? First one is pretty easy…