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Softness in a bar

Advantages: Moisturising properties
Disadvantages: Manky white layer

...I have recently been using oilatum bath oil as a shower gel, which has proven to be quite effective but rather messy. My grandma has been researching products in magazines and presented me with this soap bar, also by oilatum, to try. The idea behind her purchase being that it would have the same effect as the bath oil but without the messiness. The bar cost around £3.50 and can be purchased from places like boots. It is easy to identify it as the ...
...oilatum products, being a white box with blue text. Inside the box you will find a pink coloured oval shaped soap bar, which looks like any other standard bar of soap and is wraped in clear plastic. I opened the packaging and took my daughter upstairs for her shower. I find that baths dry out her skin even if I use the various bath oils which I have collected, and that a shower minimises the drying effect. So I stripped her off and put her in the ...

kthdsn 17.06.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Oilatum Soap Bar

I Wage War Against Germs.

Advantages: A good quality antibacterial soap
Disadvantages: None

Dettol is one of those brand names that has been with us for many years and I would imagine that most people have purchased at least one or two Dettol products during in the course of their lifetime. I would think that the most well known Dettol product would be the liquid disinfectant, the strong antiseptic smell is overpowering but it is a very capable and useful product. Just a small drop of Dettol antiseptic liquid poured into water is so good ...
...for my last bar of Dettol soap and I don't feel that it is a high price to pay for an anti-bacterial soap. The pale yellow bar weighs 125g and it is a hard soap so whereas soft soaps melt away in the hot water the harder bar of Dettol soap lasts me quite a time. The water in our area tends to be a bit on the hard side anyway and I do find that Dettol soap seems to give me little in the way of lather. But Dettol do say that it kills most germs including ...

Sarahjh1 10.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Dettol Bar Soap

Dove Cream Bar, leaves skin feeling comfortable and fresh.

Advantages: It moisturises as well as cleanses.
Disadvantages: More expensive than other soap bars

I tried Dove Cream Bar to see if I could use a soap on my face, without my face drying out, and I can. Dove Cream Bar smells beautiful, and is really attractive in the soap dish, with its unusual shape and Dove emblem. It left my face feeling soft, moisturised and I feel that I can at last use soap on my face without that dried out feeling that most soaps leave you with. My skin felt refreshed and I would recommend this to my friends. Although ...

Inspire8 12.11.2009 · Read full review

Review of Dove Moisturising Cream

palm oil soaps

Advantages: may be nice for skin
Disadvantages: decimates orangutans

Please note that many soaps contain palm oil or palm oil derivatives as mentioned in the previous review. While some may argue it is good for the skin, the irrefutable fact is that palm oil is NOT good for the planet. Palm oil is unsustainably produced on a large scale and is the main threat to the survival of the orangutan. Currently there is no sustainably produced palm oil on the market, although it is hoped that the first Certified Sustainable ...
...of 2008. Please, if your favourite soap contains palm oil, ask the producer of that product to source only 100% Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO) when it is available or use an alternative, such as Lush does in their Greenwash soap. Michelle Desilets Director Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation UK ...

savetheorangutan 24.11.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Palmolive Original Soap Bar

A good washbar is hard to find

Advantages: Mild but effective for sensitive skin
Disadvantages: Difficult to find in this country

...they were too harsh. Sebamed is *the* brand for mild cosmetics in Germany. It's used a lot by people with sensitive skin. The don't just have washbars, they have shampoos and all sorts of other things. The bar is 9cm long, green in colour, with a curved shape. It produces a soft white lather (though not very much of it) and has a very discreet, barely-there fragrance. You apply it like you would use a soap, either by spreading the leather directly ...
...Face washing with the Sebamed bar takes about 1 minute for full effect. Twice a day is normally best, but on certain days of the month, when my face gets greasy and feels sticky and dirty, I used to wash four or five times a day, without ill effects. You can also use the washbar for the whole body; it doesn't dry out or irritate those 'very sensitive' parts either. The particular feature of the washbar, and of all Sebamed products, is that it is ...

queen_rain 11.12.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Sebamed Cleansing Bar