What does an exfoliating soap bar do? If you’d like smoother, softer skin, body lotion isn’t the only product you should be using. An exfoliating bar sloughs away dry skin and makes it easier for moisturizing products, like lotion, to seep into pores. Exfoliating soap bars, while effective, are considered gentle alternatives to dry brushing and chemical body peels. Many bars also include nourishing ingredients, like shea butter or olive oil, to soothe and soften skin. We’ve put together this...

Time to raise the bar. It might have been a long time since you've picked up a bar of soap to wash anything but your hands. In fact, you've probably never actually put one near your face. Your mother told you not to, the beauty counter salesperson told you not to, we probably told you not to. But thanks to a new generation of cleansing soap bars, that's all changed. The soaps of old would strip your skin of dirt...

A bar of soap? I can’t remember the last time I used one. My bathroom always has a liquid hand wash and lotion by the sink, and the thought of washing my body with anything but shower gel just feels plain wrong. But it turns out that, after decades of being shunned in favour of hand washes and shower gels, the good old-fashioned bar of soap is officially back. Last year, sales rose by 2.9 per cent, with shoppers spending...

I’ve written at length about single use plastics in the past – and it’s an issue that isn’t going anywhere. The beauty industry produces 120 billion units of packaging per year and by 2050, it’s estimated that there will be 12 billion tonnes of plastic in landfills generated by the cosmetics camp alone, according to research conducted for zero waste week last year. And that fact hasn’t gone unheeded by consumers. Indeed, we’ve been busy voting with our purses and...

Via It Takes Time By Andrea Fabry When you invest in a bar of natural soap, you may pay more in the short run, but more than likely you will benefit in the long term with softer skin. Your overall health will benefit as well since more than 60 percent of anything we put on our skin is absorbed into the body. (Chemicals found in personal care products are now being linked to breast cancer, birth defects, infertility and more.) Learn...