Paper Street Soap Co.
Paper Street Soap Co. is a fictional company created by Tyler Durden in the 1996 book Fight Club by author Chuck Palahniuk and popularized by its 1999 film adaptation starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.
Paper Street is an allusion to fictitious entries on maps.
Purpose in novel
Tyler Durden creates and uses Paper Street Soap Co. as an anarchic and simultaneously capitalistic enterprise that produces soap out of rendered human fat stolen from the dumpsters of liposuction clinics. The soap is then sold by Durden to retailers, particularly department stores, as a high-end product. The money made from these sales serves at first as a side income to Durden, who works part-time as a projectionist and waiter, and later becomes his sole source of revenue as the members of his Fight Club become the dedicated workers of his soap factory – the soap production becomes a full-time, round the clock enterprise that pays for the expenses to house and feed its members and to finance the guerilla tactics of Project Mayhem.
Cultural impact
Numerous web pages have been created under the name to pay homage to the fictional company and story of origin and often sell t-shirts with the name and related quotes from the film adaptation.[1] One company that took the name actually produces certified organic personal care products, including an organic bug spray.[2]
A French Thai boxing club located in Schiltigheim in France is named Paper Street Soap Co. in homage to the film[3].