Seen in a Helsinki hotel:

“Vegetal Base Soap”. I was surprised that this was important enough to bother shaping into the soap bar, although the effect is nice. Are many soaps still animal-based? If I were philosophically vegetarian, would this concern me in a hotel? What would I use if the soap had not been marked? Shampoo? Would I remain loyal to the hotel because of its consciousness, as demonstrated by the choice of vegetal soap? Is the green color (very unnatural for soap) meant to signal concern for the earth and its inhabitants?

Note: the plastic wrapper on the soap was so hard to remove that the housekeeping staff had left the package partially cut open.