Soap Bar in the UK is sometimes "cut" with ground up glass and other crap for some Insane reason! I never smoked any soapbar, but we get a lot of Bubble Hash around here, made by friends, family and so on, not that difficult to make bubble hash really, and I always wondered why the soapbar has sand,sometimes ground up glass ,etc. in it?! I guess some of the shady hash dealers in the UK do not care about "repear business" IMO..only time I smoked hash in Europe was in amsterdam, and Bubble Hash is still better than any imported hash they have there,at least in my experience, although the hash in amsterdam does not include the best I ever smoked which was while I was on a trip in Eygpt, and another american who moved there 10 years before I came to visit, he had made excellant connections there for hash and opium ,both of which are grown/produced in Eygpt, the hash was blondeish/grey, it had been aged for several years in a proper way, and the opium was aged several years as well and was the best opium I ever smoked as far as potentcy wise..The hash I smoked there was a locals personal supply,so it would never make it to Amsterdam or to the "streets" of Europe or anywhere else..lol
In my Area, Memphis and when I lived in New Orleans, LA, hash is usually in Memphis the Bubble hash someone made and is strong. In New Orleans, we had Bubble Hash, Jamaican hash which was actually very good hash, unlike the average Jamaican hash which is not that great usually. Also hash from South America was sometimes around in New Orleans, and was typically decent , but not on par with Bubble Hash, or morroacan Zero-Zero, which is a very good type I smoked in Amsterdam, as was Tibetan Temple Balls and some hash from India, don't remember it's name though.
I'm from southern Cali so we have tons of shops around here. A homie of mine even has some sort of wax that he makes that gets you really fucked up and it tastes really good. Very seldom do the concentrates suck around here. So come to Cali