Dove Is Under Fire For Race War- Go For The Real Handmade Natural Soap !

Better Skin Starts with Real Soap: The Truth About Commercial Bars, such as Dove

From Dove Beauty Bar and Olay Beauty Bar to Dial Antibacterial, Irish Spring, and Cetaphil Cleansing Bar, many of these products are not “true soap.” While they are commonly found in the soap aisle, most are actually synthetic detergents—often called “syndet bars”—formulated with lab-made cleansing agents rather than traditional soap ingredients.

Even products marketed as gentle, like Cetaphil Cleansing Bars, rely heavily on synthetic ingredients to cleanse the skin without using true soap.

The Hidden Impact on Your Skin

Using synthetic cleansing bars regularly can lead to:

• Dryness and irritation due to harsh surfactants
• Disruption of the skin’s natural pH balance
• Removal of beneficial oils that protect and nourish your skin
• Increased sensitivity over time

While these bars may feel moisturizing initially, many contain fillers and silicones that create a temporary soft feel rather than delivering real nourishment.

What Is “True Soap”? Grandma’s Natural Handcrafted Soap!

True soap is made through a process called saponification, where natural fats or oils—such as olive oil, coconut oil, or goat milk—react with lye to create soap. This process results in a gentle, naturally derived cleanser that works in harmony with your skin.

In contrast, many commercial bars replace natural oils with synthetic surfactants. These ingredients are designed to create a consistent lather, extend shelf life, and reduce production costs—but they often come at the expense of skin health.

Why Popular Brands Aren’t True Soap

Many well-known brands avoid calling their products “soap” for a reason:

• Dove Beauty Bar and Olay Beauty Bar use synthetic cleansers and moisturizing agents instead of traditional soap bases
• Dial Antibacterial and Irish Spring often contain detergents and chemical additives for fragrance and antibacterial claims
• Cetaphil Cleansing Bar is formulated for sensitive skin but still relies on synthetic ingredients rather than real soap

These products are engineered for consistency and cost efficiency—not for preserving your skin’s natural balance.

Why Many Popular Bars Aren’t Soap

Brands like Dove and Olay label their products as “beauty bars” rather than soap for a reason. They are formulated with synthetic detergents instead of traditional soap bases. Similarly, antibacterial bars like Dial often include added chemicals such as triclosan (in older formulas) or other antibacterial agents that can disrupt the skin’s natural balance.Worldwide Spotlight wrote:

Black Celebrity Gossip – Ghetto Visual Productions just broke the hectic news, the company that makes your favourite soap bar, Dove, is under some hectic fire right now for an advertisement they put on Facebook that seemed a little racist. In the ad, there is a black girl, taking off a dirty shirt, indicating that she is dirty, and was about to jump in the shower.

Social media went absolutely crazy, saying that the Dove company is insinuating the black girl at the top of the ad is dirty, and the white girl at the bottom of the ad is clean. What do you think, is this a racist advertisement?

Megha Mohan 

@meghamohan

Is @Dove soap’s marketing strategy
Before – black & dirty
After – Caucasian & clean
Also *who* is approving these ads?

Do you know the difference between Natural and Commercial Soap?

 Well I think It speaks for it’s self. There are other differences such as one is mass produced and one is hand/home made. I hope you enjoyed this quick little article about the differences in soaps. If you want to get your hands on natural soap 

1. A Volcanic Ash Clay Natural Soap has been embraced throughout history for its extraordinary health and cosmetic benefits. For a deep clean and a ~pulsating feeling~ that works wonders in clearing stubborn cystic acne.

​Volcanic Ash Soap helps address skin rashes, cellulite, blemishes, damaged skin, wrinkles, eczema, psoriasis, acne, and even stretch marks. It is also an exfoliating soap, especially if you have oily skin.

• Using volcanic ash clay for your face as a pack can help with acne and pimples
• It helps remove dead skin cells, and that makes the skin glow from within.
• Shaving Soap
• All skin types
• Volcanic ash, being insoluble in water, creates a clay-like substance called volcanic ash clay,it can have immense health benefits.

2. An organic moisturized soap beloved by people of all skin types for reducing redness, dryness, inflammation, oiliness, and acne — just to name a few.

Handmade Artisan Four Bar Set Soaps Natural Handcrafted Soap
 : 7 oz. Each soap bar is hand-crafted using all-natural ingredients, it includes 100% pure essential oils and organic botanicals.

.This soap is my go-to product for deep moisturization that isn’t going to break me out.
It equalizes your skin tone. I have dark spots and acne scars that altogether disappeared after using this product. works its magic.” Review from  —Vero

• No preservatives, colorants, or fragrance oils added to our products, just pure natural ingredients. “I never write reviews, but I'm honestly so in love with this product, and here's
• why: It means it doesn't clog your pores. I have very bad eczema on my face, so getting acne and trying to moisturize isn't fun.

3. A cult-favorite Grandma’s goats’ milk soap that’ll reduce pores and is a savior for both acne sufferers and people with flaky, dry skin.

Farm Fresh Goat’s Milk – Review – An all-natural goat milk soap
An all-natural goat milk soap that’ll make you say, “Goat Milk?” Goat’s milk soap is very good for eczema and for soft, glowing skin in general. I am allergic to scented ingredients in many natural products. I was happy to find this soap, which is simple and pure. SC Madison from New York

4. An espresso soap  to promote increased skin elasticity and reduce puffiness —

Performance Characteristics: Scent Experience: Strong, alluring coffee, vanilla, and hazelnut aroma during use.Odor Elimination: Exceptional at neutralizing and stripping unwanted kitchen and outdoor smells.Skin Benefits: Uses real ground Brazilian coffee for physical exfoliation and cocoa butter for deep moisture.Longevity: Natural aging processes make the bar harder and last longer, which naturally reduces its raw scent intensity over time

• Reduce under-eye puffiness – While it may not get rid of those dark circles under your eyes (which are often hereditary), the anti-inflammatory properties of caffeine in coffee help minimize under-eye redness and inflammation. It also helps prevent the build-up of blood under your eyes, which contributes to those dark circles. You may discover it as an ingredient in many eye creams.

5. An organic facial soap – copaiba and coconut milk to gently cleanse your skin without overly drying it or stripping away essential natural oils.

Rainforest Copaiba and Organic Coconut milk is the secret of Brazilians for beautiful, young, and healthy skin.

Brazilian Copaiba Soap with Coconut Milk

Ships Same Day on Orders Placed Before 11AM EST

6.  Australian tea tree to bring balance to any particularly itchy or dry skin — tea tree oil is great at fighting acne and is a natural repellent.

Artisan Balancing Soaps: Natural Handcrafted Soap Company’s Australian Tea Tree Soap counterbalances the purifying tea tree oil with highly moisturizing fats, including organic olive oil, organic coconut oil, jojoba oil, and cocoa butter. This formulation is targeted directly at soothing dry, itchy, or acne-prone skin without causing flaking. Google for more

7. A Dead Sea Mud Soap that harnesses the power of natural minerals to tighten skin and tone pores.

Besides the Dead Sea mud, this mask contains oils and butter and is cruelty-free.

• Helps improve psoriasisReduces skin impurities
• Provides relief for arthritis.
• Helps treat acne

8. An Ancient Greek Olive Oil Soap, because it’s not just a great moisturizer — people also swear it helps promote the skin to appear more revitalized and youthful.

Olive oil soap provides anti-inflammatory effects to help heal skin abrasions, rashes, and even sunburns.
Olive oil soap is known to provide relief to skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis.

• Our Extra Virgin Organic Greek olive oil is hand harvested and unfiltered
• Using traditional farming techniques and without the use of pesticides or others chemicals
• Grown in the mountain of Southern Greece were the Mediterranean climate and rocky soil are best.
• Since ancient times olive oil has been used as a way to moisturize the skin

NATURAL HANDCRAFTED SOAP – MADE FROM SMALL BATCHES NO ARTIFICIAL COLORS OR CHEMICALS LIKE COMMERCIAL SOAPS  BUY FROM NATURAL HANDCRAFTED SOAP 

. NATURAL HANDCRAFTED SOAP COMPANY  

1. A facial Greek Olive oil soap 

Handmade Soap Artisan soap Natural Soap AMAZON.COM EXTRA LARGE OLIVE OIL SOAP

2. A clean daily the natural way with citrus handmade soap

This is Citrus Tangerine Orange from Florida  BUY HERE  FROM AMAZON HANDMADE

3. A facial and body soap to gently wash your skin, leaving it looking refreshed and lovely.

Brazilian Oil Soap \ Love this bar  BUY HERE

4. An Beer Lover –

You know, the way a beer should be!

More people from Long Beach , California -Love this  Beer soap -Stout is a great gift for for anyone that has ever enjoyed a beer. GET THIS SOAP HERE

5. A Coffee is what all the buzz is about! Caffeinated soap

3 coffee Brazilian and Hawaii blends Yeahhh Coffee anyone like  –

6. A beautifying, and purifying the human body.

… Buy coffee soaps HERE

Natural Bar of Soap

Commercial bar soap-it’s slippery, clunky, and loses its shape after a single use.
How could it possibly compete with a luxurious body wash? But Natural handcrafted soap  does  left my skin feeling hydrated,  smells wonderful ,invigorating without being too strong” and “leaves you feeling refreshed.” . Not convinced? Try easing yourself back to bars with these slightly more luxe options.
Natural Luxury  – Coffee  Soap

Tightens pores and removes dead skin cells, making the skin looking younger. It also displays (anti-wrinkle and anti-cellulite) .

Greek Olive Oil Organic soap

The earliest recipes for Aleppo soap date back to 2400 B.C. Local villagers harvest the olives and laurel berries, which grow wild in the forests of northern Syria and southeast Turkey.
They then press and boil them. This soft mixture is set in cave-like storage areas to dry for 6 to 9 months until it hardens into a naturally (green soap) that develops a golden outer skin as it ages.

Buttermilk Soap

Butter milk is richer in fats and emollients than whole milk. For centuries, milk has been used as a natural, soothing skin cleanser and skin softener. This gentle and soft soap is made with buttermilk, a natural, soothing skin cleanser and moisturizer.We add honey ,which calms irritated skin and adds moisturizes to the skin.We use fresh creamy buttermilk made from farm fresh milk in our soap.( We never use powdered buttermilk or water).

Dead Sea Mud Soap

Dead Sea Mud with Sea Salt

Beauty Products from Natural Handcrafted Soap

Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 10:15 AM
Beauty Products from Natural Handcrafted Soap

All the time people buy brands like Olay, L’Oreal Paris, Covergirl, Pantene, Vidal Sassoon, Suave, Dove, Maybelline, Garnier, The Body Shop,

Nivea, Eucerin, and  many more.
When you shop the natural soaps at naturalhandcraftedsoapcompany.com ,
you can luxuriate in beautiful , {Handcrafted Artisan Soaps} – This company/small business was created with the idea to make soap the way it was made centuries ago..

Artisan (one that produces something (as cheese or wine or soap ) in limited quantities often using traditional methods , this was the idea, to go back in time and make soap the way it was meant to be made,, using all natural, healthy simple ingredients that would not only make your skin feel clean all day with lots of wonderful lather, but also a product that was good for the skin, anti aging, acne, wrinkles, spots, sensitive skin, dry and oily skin and more. We use family recipes and techniques from over 100 years ago, also we use recipes and the method of the making of Aleppo soap where it all began centuries ago.
Natural beauty soaps , that you look forward to using every day .
Get ready for a must-have look that’s all your own.

Naturalhandcraftedsoapcompany.com  offers an array of beauty and natural soaps for a whole range of skin care.

• Women’s World Magazine – January – Issue
• Oil (lipid) content, which affects your skin’s softness
• Sensitivity level

A Natural Artisan Handmade Soap Bar can be practical  addition to any good skin care regimen. But many people have been using the same type of soap for years without ever thinking about why.
Scientifically, we know that the skin is constantly changing which is why something as simple as changing your soap can make a big difference in results from a skin-care routine. In fact, there is a good natural handcrafted bar for every skin type. To make the process a little less overwhelming, I have put together a few favorites, depending on the skin type.
Sensitive Skin: People with sensitive skin have trouble with irritation from many products. Often, the irritation arises from fragrance or harsh detergents in the commercial soap. A favorite recommendation from dermatologists everywhere is Natural  Soap for Sensitive Skin. Like  Milk  and Olive Oil Soaps .  It is unscented and has mild cleansing ingredients that gently clean the skin without excessive irritation. It’s always a good idea to follow

Sensitive skin care soaps

cleansing with a gentle moisturizer to soothe sensitive skin.

Products like Dove are not soap

Handmade SOAP and Dove SOAP


Just because you buy a product that comes in the form of a bar, doesn't always mean its soap. It can be a cleanser, but that's not necessarily a bar of "soap". Establishing this difference is important because a typical bar of soap most often has an inherent pH of 10. Products like Dove are not soap in the same sense, Dove contains, petroleum derivatives, synthetic coloring and fragrances, and chemical preservatives rather a blend of ingredients in a bar form, but not soap (remember their ads say that Dove is ¼ cold cream). Just as you wouldn't choose a facial soap that causes dryness and irritation, you should choose a product designed and formulated for the specific purpose of cleansing your sweetest spot.  That's where we come in with our Face and Body Soap from Natural Handcrafted Soap,using natural herbs, spices and  clays and are scented with 100% pure essential oils.  These completely natural soaps contain no artificial colors or fragrances gentle wash and doesn't have a loaded ingredient listing. 

 

Here's a non-scientific graph that gives you insights into the pH of common drugstore soap brands.

Brand Name pH
Camay 9.5
Dial 9.5
Dove 7.0 (neutral)
Irish Spring 9.5
Ivory 9.5
Lever 2000 9.0
Palmolive 10.0
Zest 10.0

By Kiki of Face and Body Soap

This soap has extra rich lather, with bits of lavender buds folded in, it makes for a mild natural exfoliant with velvet like lather . We dont stop there, we also add crushed lavender buds to give it an amazing relaxing scent of the French countryside !

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wild lavender's original home. Every skin type benefits from lavender oil, but it is particularly good for dry skin. It can be used in the treatment of acne as well. With a base of olive oil and the addition of shea butter perilla seed ,and palm oil, it makes this soap soothing, creamy and extra moisturizing, and smells wonderful , you will feel like you taking a shower in the French counrtyside in a lavender field.