Shampoo?

As usual.

Have you ever tried soap for washing your hair?

No, not the ones for the hands.

There are very nice products especially for hair.

Mild and fine, suitable for sensitive scalps.

The catch: where in the shower cubicle should the small bars be placed safely?

The wet soap likes to slide off conventional shelves.

Or it softens and drips away because the underside always remains damp and wet.

Not good at all.

Fortunately, there are special holders with magnets.

Thorsten Winter

Business editor and internet coordinator in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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Something like this is available in stores and consists of two parts: a suction cup with a built-in metal base - it does not have to be drilled into the tiled wall - and a small plate with a magnet. This plate looks like a bottle cap and is simply pressed into the soap. All you need is a place on the wall in the shower cubicle or by the bathtub. Press the magnetic plate onto the metal base of the suction cup and the pretty soap holder is ready.

If you are inclined to do it yourself, you can also tinker with the do-it-yourself version.

This requires a square timber, a hand saw with a chopper, to miter two parts of the square timber.

In addition, wood glue, a magnet, all-purpose glue, some sandpaper and clear varnish along with a roll and waterproof double-sided adhesive tape;

everything is available in a hardware store or specialist retailer you trust.

Not to forget a bottle cap.

First saw the wood into a shorter and a longer piece.

Glue both parts so that they form an angle, grind the surface and seal against moisture with a roller with clear varnish.

Then either glue the magnet on or, if it has a hole in the middle, screw it onto the longer part.

Now press the bottle cap into the soap.

Finally, the adhesive strip must be on the back of the shorter part in order to attach the holder to the wall of the shower cubicle.

With the soap down.

Then there is usually nothing left to do.