Paper Street Soap Co. quotes from the film adaptation. One company that took the name actually produces certified organic personal care products, including an organic bug spray. Paper Street Soap Co. Paper Street Soap Co. is a fictional company created by Tyler Durden in the book "Fight Club" by author Chuck Palahniuk and popularized by its film adaptation starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. Paper Street is an allusion to fictitious entries on maps. 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
Chuck Palahniuk his father, Fred Palahniuk, had started dating a woman named Donna Fontaine, whom he had met through a personal ad under the title "Kismet". Her former boyfriend, Dale Shackelford, had previously been imprisoned for sexual abuse, and had vowed to kill Fontaine as soon as he was released from prison. Palahniuk believes that, using a personal ad, Fontaine was looking for "the biggest man she could find" to protect her from Shackelford, and Palahniuk's father qualified. After his release, Shackelford followed Fontaine and the senior Palahniuk to Fontaine's home in Kendrick, Idaho after they had gone out for a date.