‘Omg the disrespect’: New York woman tries new Bath & Body Works ‘slime’ soap. Then she tests it in-store
While slime as a toy first hit shelves in the 1970s thanks to Mattel, it really blew up over the last decade, when kids and adults started posting endless slime videos online.
Brands took notice. Now you can find slime textures in makeup, body products, and, in Bath & Body Works’ case, a shapeable soap that TikTok is calling “slime soap.”
So a New York shopper decided to see what the hype is about.
Tiktoker Puts Bath & Body Works ‘Slime Soap‘ to the Test
TikTok creator Aiyanna (@aiyannace) documents the whole thing in a viral clip that follows her from the front of the store to the sink.
“I’m seeing videos that Bath & Body Works has slime soap,” she says as she walks inside. “I know. I love slime anything. And I do like washing my hands.”
She heads to a worker and asks, “Excuse me, do you have slime soap?” The employee hands her two bottles of the brand’s shapeable soap to sample.
“Is this the sample? I would love that,” she says, before taking both into the bathroom to give them a real test. “Let me test these out and see if they’re worth anything.”
Once she’s at the sink, she has high expectations. “First of all, she said these are $20, so this better blow my socks off.”
The first few seconds with the product don’t go well.
“Oh, this is not good,” she says as she sprays a lot of product out, and it starts getting everywhere. “We’re off to a bad start already.”
She looks genuinely surprised by how much it spreads. “Why? I didn’t know it was that much.”
Still, she keeps playing with the texture, stretching and squishing it. “Well, this is actually fun,” she says, then immediately gives it a caveat: “But this is too messy.”
She also questions how practical the product is as actual soap. “I don’t understand how this is supposed to get your hands clean,” she says. Then she finally starts lathering it properly onto her hands, and her tune softens.
“OK, now I get it,” she says.
Even with that, she keeps circling back to the price and cleanup. “But for $20, I don’t know,” she says. “I don’t know if this is worth all the mess. This is too much. If I gotta clean my sink to wash my hands…”
Her final verdict is mixed: “I don’t know. I mean, it’s fun, but I couldn’t see myself wasting my money on this.”
The next shot, however, is of her at the register with a bottle in hand.
“Hello, Queen,” she tells the cashier as she checks out.
@aiyannace Moldable Slime Soap ? #bathandbodyworks #slime #soap #hands ♬ original sound – Aiyanna?
Viewers Call Out the Mess
In the comments, viewers focus less on the texture and more on how much product she uses during the test. Some people, especially those who say they work at the chain, feel like she goes overboard.
“As a Bath and Body Works employee, please don’t do this,” one person wrote.
Another viewer couldn’t get over how much slime soap went straight down the drain instead of onto hands. “YOU THROWING AWAY PRODUCT IM SCREAMING,” they said.
Not everyone wanted to cancel slime entirely, though. Some suggested she try a different version from a competing brand. “Lush! they have ACTUALLY slime soap,” another commenter said, likely referring to the Gloop! shower slime from Lush.
For now, Bath & Body Works’ slime-like shapeable soap seems to sit in that middle space: fun enough to play with, chaotic enough to annoy employees, and just practical enough that even a skeptical shopper still decides to buy it.
We reached out to Bath & Body Works and to Aiyanna via email for comment.
This story was produced by our friends at Gee Thanks.
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