Best Bar Soap For Face?
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Best Bar Soap For Face?
I'm still on the hunt for the perfect bar soap for my face and body. So far I've had no success in finding one that didn't either dry out my skin or clog my pores.
Here's some I've used to no success:
Basis Sensitive
Yardley US
Trumper's Spanish Leather
Santa Maria Novella
Dove (several kinds)
Ivory
Caress
Purpose Bar
Pangean Organics
Suki Sensitive Bar
Kiss My Face
Fa
Musgo Real
Some Whole Foods brands
etc.
Perhaps I'm doomed to face wash?
Here's some I've used to no success:
Basis Sensitive
Yardley US
Trumper's Spanish Leather
Santa Maria Novella
Dove (several kinds)
Ivory
Caress
Purpose Bar
Pangean Organics
Suki Sensitive Bar
Kiss My Face
Fa
Musgo Real
Some Whole Foods brands
etc.
Perhaps I'm doomed to face wash?
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Basis and Purpose are two that are brands typically recommended by Dermatologists. If you’re having problems with all the soaps on your list including the above two, then a consultation with a dermatologist might be reasonable. Their first question will be: Is this a new problem, or have you always had difficulty with soaps? From there they will proceed to determine the problem, and make recommendations regarding products perhaps not readily available or by prescription. Given the number of soaps you’ve already tried, and the number left to experiment with, the Derm consult might be the shorter route to success. Unfortunately, while the recommendations here will be very informed (the depth of knowledge here is quite astonishing), it’s still a hit or miss proposition, since skin reaction/tolerance to topical products is highly individual.
Steve
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Here's a fancy word for what you're looking for 'comedogenic' or the tendency to clog pores and cause acne and skin problems. So you need a soap listed as non comedogenic and containing glycerin which is aquaphillic, another fancy word for likes water and doesn't suck it out of you like the Ark of the Covenant in Indian Jones.
One listed is PEARS.
One listed is PEARS.
Here is a chart on Non-comedogenic Oils. http://www.soapnuts.com/noncomo.html
I don't agree with all of it, but it will give you a better idea.
I don't agree with all of it, but it will give you a better idea.
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I would second that. The NB mild facial cleanser does an excellent job of cleaning without irritating one's face. However, even in it's current reformulation, the product is still too runny in consistency, a minus when you're in the shower and that $15/6 oz. is spilling out of your palm.Thalay Sagar wrote:Nancy Boy.
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Greek "Kings & Queens Tobacco Soap". (Black as your hat, with a strong whiff of those good ol' nitro musks you don't smell any more.)
(Grik is proud country, don't giving a feck about the stupid the EU the rules on what men is allowed to smell of innit. Is good enough for the Socrates, is good enough for the myself, endaxi?)
DAMN fine soap. Probably the best.
(Grik is proud country, don't giving a feck about the stupid the EU the rules on what men is allowed to smell of innit. Is good enough for the Socrates, is good enough for the myself, endaxi?)
DAMN fine soap. Probably the best.
Michael
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This one, Michael?
http://www.nivenandjoshua.co.uk/body/so ... oyal-soap/
drugstore.com has various varieties here in the States, but apparently not the tobacco soap.
http://www.nivenandjoshua.co.uk/body/so ... oyal-soap/
drugstore.com has various varieties here in the States, but apparently not the tobacco soap.
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That's the fella. But I'm glad I didn't read that promo copy before I bought it. Complete doubledegook, unless the rules of chemistry have suddenly changed...rsp1202 wrote:This one, Michael?
http://www.nivenandjoshua.co.uk/body/so ... oyal-soap/
drugstore.com has various varieties here in the States, but apparently not the tobacco soap.
Michael
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People say it's never too late. How wrong they are. --Felix Dennis
+2. Their bar soaps are awesome too.m3m0ryleak wrote:I would second that. The NB mild facial cleanser does an excellent job of cleaning without irritating one's face. However, even in it's current reformulation, the product is still too runny in consistency, a minus when you're in the shower and that $15/6 oz. is spilling out of your palm.Thalay Sagar wrote:Nancy Boy.
It's only 12.75/6 oz if you're in the NB club
You're right about the "new" consistency though; they didn't seem to make it that much thicker. I wash my face before bed at the sink, so I can modulate how much of the cleanser I use.
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