Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

First, the soap. This is an overscented but basically fine palm-oil-based shower soap, sold in a package of three extraordinarily expensive bars. It works fine for what it is and has a "handmade" appearance, but it's nothing more special than a lot of products available for 25% of its price, much less is it as nice as the kind of premium soap you can get at this price point from brands like Pre de Provence or Savon Marseille. Second, the marketing. This product is made by Unilever, a gargantuan multinational corporation. But it has been deliberately designed to give the misleading appearance of a small "artisanal" brand with a sheen of charitable giving. Everything about it is designed to mislead, from the pseudo-brown-paper packaging to the text suggesting it's being sold for charity, which carefully neglects to mention what proportion, exactly, of the price will be going to the boasted showers-for-the-homeless efforts (it turns out the charities being funded by Unilever in this connection are all quite small and city-specific, and they boast of so far having showered a total number of people, over their entire existence, in the low tens of thousands). I'm forced to guess that the actual charitable contribution here is a matter of a few cents per bar of soap at most, so customers would be far better served to buy regular soap at a regular price, donate the excess cost directly to charities of their own choosing. And doing it that way will have the additional benefit that you're not, in the process, supporting a truly slimy attempt at charity-washing a massive corporation's overpriced for-profit product.