Channel your inner French girl with an updated bath and shower routine. Quite a few Coveteur team members will wax poetic about the power of bar soap (specifically, the classic Dove beauty bar), and that’s understandable. Keeping your favorite brand in an elegant dish on the side of your sink or tub is quite chic. In our quest to channel the best of French-girl beauty, upgrading our go-to shower gel to a bar soap seems like an easy choice to make, especially since...

Bar soap has a bad reputation for being basic and drying. But times have changed and so have the ingredients in them, making them suitable for a variety of skin types. They can be a great eco-friendly solution to liquid soaps that are filled with fragrance and other irritants. There is a right and wrong way to use bar soap on your face. Do not use it directly on your face. You will want to wet the bar and create a...

Remember when Imperial Leather soap – “Luxury you can afford every day” – was as high-end as taking your creative director to NYC on Concord for lunch at the Four Seasons Grill? Not a comparison that has aged well. More recently, bars of soap have gone the way of cash or Christianity: something that you only find in hotel top drawers or down the back of your mother-in-law’s sofa covered in hair and lint. Nowadays, men are more likely to coo over...

Plastic-free and gorgeous formulas We’re all washing our hands more than ever due to the coronavirus crisis, which means we’re getting through soap at a rate faster than we’re used to - and creating more plastic waste as a result. If you’re feeling conscious of the amount you’re throwing away, now is an ideal time to switch from liquid soap to a soap bar.  The traditional form of soap is having a resurgence thanks to shoppers becoming more aware of their...

My dad is a simple man with but one indulgence: a beautiful bar of soap. I never fully understood why this was his luxury of choice and the only thing he ever asked for when my family was stuck on what to gift him. At least not until these times of social distancing, when my daily shower took on a new significance, transformed into a serene act of self-care that I came to cherish at the end of the day. When, for...