Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

These bars last a really long time. We have been using them as everyday hand soap. They keep everybody's skin on the knuckles, where it belongs, and the value factor is significant when you consider that, so far our first bar has lasted over six months. Maybe we're just not great hand washers? But I don't think so. I think the soap really does last a long time. Smells divine, too - and stays that way. Customer for life! ______ Update: My family still uses Pre de Provence Artisanal Vegetable Soaps. I have several varieties on Subscribe and Save, and I recently received several bars from Amazon Vine. Now seemed like a good time to give you more thorough impressions of each scent. Starflower, the first bar I reviewed, is a light clean neutral floral fragrance that works very well for soap and hand lotion. It isn't cloying or overpowering. Lemongrass smells like lemon drops. It's sweet and uplifting and has been great in the shower for back to school. White gardenia is heady and sophisticated. It smells great in the shower and, thankfully, does not linger afterward, because, as good as it smells, not everyone wants to smell like that all day. Rose petals smells exactly like roses. Exactly. Jasmine smells like the jasmine grasses of Provence, not like commercial facsimiles of jasmine.It's way better than those and is a warm, calming fragrance. Actually, none of these soaps smells like cheap drugstore perfume. They all smell like actual fruit, flowers, and herbs. Sage is lovely and a tad masculine. It smells like a summer herb garden. And peony smells sweet and fresh and very light. Finally, raspberry smells like raspberry pie. It is a sweet, almost mouthwatering fragrance that my son loves. As with the other vegetable soaps, the smell doesn't linger after the shower, so you do not end up smelling like pie all day. I started using these soaps as handsoaps, but my husband and son both swipe them off the sink and bring them into the shower. They do not last as long in there, but they do last as long as many conventional soaps, any one of which would leave my lupus-cursed skin in tatters. None of these soaps ships with an ingredients list, so I looked them up: Sodium Palmate Palm Kernelate Water Glycerin Shea Butter Sodium Chloride (Petals or leaves from the botanical the soap is named for) Sodium Hydroxide* this is an ingredient of concern in some jurisdictions - however, the concern level is low Tetrasodium EDTA Tetrasodium Editronate (sometimes other botanical oils or extracts) Sunflower Oil Fragrance* this can mean just about anything, but Pre de Provence says that it does not use parabens or paraffins. The fragrance and the botanicals can cause allergic reactions in people who are sensitive. Always pay attention to what your body is telling you. Itching, trouble breathing, sneezing, watering eyes are signs that something is not okay.