Bath salts and scented candles are popular poorly-planned gift items that came into currency in the early- to mid-eighties, striking the final blow to the gift-giving ritual culture of the Dobe Ju/'Hoansi people, Japan, and the entire American south, where they used to give each other squirrel heads with the brains and stuff still in there instead. They supplanted funky colorful carved candles from shops at the beach, which had at that time been the major force in the stagnant poorly-planned gift market since 1922, when large deposits of cheap wax were first discovered by hiker Warren Harding under the Teapot Dome.