Paper Soaps

After many years, I found my eyes on a pack of paper soaps. The ones which are paper, but when combined with water - voila, the lather emerges and a strong scent fills the air, and you can confirm its a soap alright.
I recall carrying a thin pack of those when travelling in the train. In those days, hygiene was really not one of Indian Railways' virtues. Now these paper soaps were strictly meant for loo-visits. If you don't visit the loo, you can't play with the soap! For a kid like me, it was fascinating to see a paper get all crumpled and the lather coming on with a weird strong smell. Wow, like imagine that! Paper with soap! So even if I really didn't need to go to the loo, I would pretend that I have to go - real badly. And each time the visit would last a couple of seconds and the handwashing - a couple of minutes.
I wonder who thought of it, anyway? Someone travelling in the train probably thought.. I wish I had a paper. A paper that was a soap! And I'll make it in different colors and different fragrances. And they'd all expel lather. And all kids of this country would fake loo visits to play with my paper soap.
Damn, that man was good!