Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Short review: smells great, less than my ideal lather, left with dry skin, and sketchy answers to pH levels in Q&A. Long review: I liked using SebaMed body wash, but I was not a fan of their scent. Skin always felt awesome after using it, and I attributed it to the 5.5 pH level of their body wash. So, I searched on Amazon for similar products with a better scent. I came across Puracy, and after reading the ingredients and a reply from one of the reps to a Q&A claiming that it was a pH level of 5.5, I gave it a try. I was very pleased with the scent, but I wasn’t very fond of the small lather. In my experience, I had to use around 4 pumps in a loofah to start showering and an additional 2 pumps to keep the lather going. Is lather necessary? I don’t know, but it’s what I enjoy when showering. So, that’s where the 1st gets knocked. After going through both bottles, my wife and I both agreed that it left our skin severely dry. The skin near my fingernails started cracking from becoming excessively dry. I can only attribute it to the body wash because it never happened while I was using SebaMed, or even other run-of-the-milk body washes. I stay very well hydrated, and I add an electrolyte solution to my water daily. So poor hydration was never the issue. So, I knocked off another star. I was trying to look for answers as to why this product would cause such bad dry skin, and I searched for pH again in the Q&A. I didn’t see when first researching Puracy, but I saw 3 different answers regarding questions to pH. The COFOUNDER replied the pH level is 6.5 neutral, another rep said the pH is 5.5, and the same rep replied to another question stating 5.5-6.0. Someone, somewhere is lying. A .5-1 pH variance may not seem like a big number, but in pH values, it matters siginicantly. It effects enzymes and proteins in the in the skin, even the pH of blood can’t have an extreme variance like that. It has to stay within a pH of 7.35-7.45; a variance of only 0.1. I think they just threw 5.5 out there to steal SebaMed users, and they don’t really know the pH of their product. For that, I took an additional 2 stars. I don’t recommend. I’m going back to SebaMed.