🧼
A bar of soap, sometimes shown with bubbles, the emoji represents washing up, used for hygiene reminders and handwashing content. It also covers self-care routines generally, playing the same clean-and-basic role in real life that it does in the emoji lineup.
What 🧼 means
A rectangular green soap with a couple of soapy bubbles on and around the soap. The 🧼 Soap emoji represents a bar of soap/detergent used for bathing and washing. It symbolizes cleanliness, cleansing and the fact that something can be slippery or soapy!
How and when to use it
- While texting someone about a slippery situation, one that's quite difficult to stabilize on, use 🧼. Like, "This one's a slippery slope, I'm telling ya 🧼" or "How do you expect me to fall for someone who's so unstable all the time! 🧼".
- Not just bathing 🧼 may be used to indicate the need of the hour in any matter; cleansing. For example, "Ugh. Wash your filthy mouth! 🧼" or "You really need to cleanse your perspective, man 🧼".
- If you're describing agitation in a post caption or responding to an agitating conversation or subject of conversation, you may use 🧼.
- Speaking of "washing one's mouth", 🧼 could be brought into sarcastic contexts of mockery as well. For instance, "Oh. I'm sorry. Did I hurt your fragile ego? I'mma wash my mouth for it! 🧼".
- If you're sharing informative content on bathing; bath bombs, bathing routines, bathing essentials, and soaps (indeed) use 🧼 in the caption.
Other Names
- 🧼 Bar of Soap
- 🧼 Bathing Soap
- 🧼 Hand Wash Soap
- 🧼 Green Soap
- 🧼 Detergent
- 🧼 Washing Soap
- 🧼 Lather
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › household
- Codepoints
U+1F9FC- Emoji version
- Emoji 11.0
- Shortcodes
:soap:- Keywords
- bar, bathing, clean, cleaning, lather, soap, soapdish
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🧼 Soap or 🍨 Ice Cream?