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[[File:Tyler Durden Business Card.png|thumb|Tyler Durden's Business Card]]'''Paper Street Soap Co.''' is a fictional company created by [[The Narrator (Fight Club)|Tyler Durden]] in the 1996 book [[Fight Club (novel)|''Fight Club'']] by author [[Chuck Palahniuk]] and popularized by its [[Fight Club|1999 film adaptation]] starring [[Brad Pitt]] and [[Edward Norton]].

Paper Street is an allusion to [[Fictitious entry|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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com/search?q=paper+street+soap+co.&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8|title=T-shirts}}</ref> One company that took the name actually produces certified organic personal care products, including an organic bug spray.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thepaperstreetsoap.co|title=Paper Street Soap Co.}}</ref>

A French Thai boxing club located in [[Schiltigheim]] in France is named Paper Street Soap Co. in homage to the film.<ref>[http://pssc.atspace.cc/ Paper Street Soap Co. Schiltigheim]</ref>

== See also ==

* [[The Narrator (Fight Club)|Tyler Durden]]

== References ==

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