In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Dial Corporation will make a $100,000 donation to the Breast Cancer Network of Strength in 2009. This year’s Dial Breast Cancer Awareness Product is Dial Natural Radiance Body Wash with White Tea and Vitamin E Pearls.
This body wash gently cleanses your skin, removing impurities and nourishing your skin with vitamins and moisture. This product comes in a liquid body wash, as well as a bar soap. Both leave your skin looking and feeling beautiful and naturally radiant.
Natural Radiance Body Wash with White Tea & Vitamin E Pearls is available in Wal-Mart, …read more

For years, I have been using products from Olay — face creams, moisturizers, cleansing cloths. Recently, I had an opportunity to try some new products from Olay and I was delighted.
Olay offers a lot of products beyond their classics. You can choose from the Definity, Regenerist, Total Effects, Complete and many other lines. But my new favorite product is very basic — I’m so surprised that I have never tried it before.
From the Olay Body Cleansing line, you MUST try the Olay Sensitive Moisturizing Bar. This “soap” is specially formulated for people like me who have sensitive skin. Created from …read more

If you are into natural beauty and bath products, you should check out the new collection of organic herb soaps from JK Soul Salts. These handcrafted soaps feature raw organic shea butter, Dead Sea salt and fragrant herbs, combined with organic essential oils. The result is a skin-nourishing soap that gently cleanses and exfoliates your skin to leave it silky soft and smooth.
These healthy soaps hydrate and nourish your skin, leaving it feeling as good as it looks. They also make fabulous gifts as they are wrapped in handmade paper and displayed beautifully. The JK Soul Salts Organic Shea Butter …read more

Here’s an interesting bath soap from the Simply Pure Soy Candlesshop at Etsy. I wish I wish that I could get a clearer photo, but there isn’t one available. It’s a glycerin soap that has polished stones embedded within it. How cool is that? I bet they are lovely.
The soaps are 3.5 ounce size and they are scented with a natural Vanilla Spearmint combination. This soap has a “wonderful smooth lather.”
You can contact the shop owner if you have any questions. I’m wondering what sort of stones they have in the soaps. My youngest, Sarah, collects stones and she would love this …read more

A couple months ago I wrote about Arcona’s Berry Fruit Bar which comes in a cute little case and is filled with natural ingredients and powerful antioxidants.
The Berry Fruit Bar is made for sensitive, easily irritated skin, but Arcona offers a variety of different options depending on your skin’s wants and needs. But you know what is kind of refreshing? When you go to their website, they haven’t taken the time to create a custom blend for every skin concern. Out of the six packages of five products (called the “Basic Five”) three of them contain the same bar housed …read more

I love it when I find bar soaps that are as pretty as they are effective. Barcelona Bath & Body offers a line of soaps that is handmade from scratch using olive oil, shea butter, cocoa butter, coconut oil and other fabulous ingredients. These vegan soaps help clean, hydrate and nourish the skin, while also protecting it from environmental factors.
Their hand soaps come in your choice of five “mood-balancing” scents:

Cinnamon Sandalwood
Grapefruit Ylang Ylang
Vanilla Lavender
Lemongrass Fennel
Coconut Bay Rum

These hand soaps come beautifully packaged in sets of two 3.5 oz. bars. Each set is priced at $12.
Barcelona Bath & Body also offers …read more

Hawaiian Bath & Body offers a selection of fabulous products that use natural ingredients to leave your skin looking and feeling healthy and fresh. From bar soaps to bath oils and body lotions to exfoliating scrubs, you are sure to find something you love.
Here are a couple of my favorite products from the line.
Mango Papaya Soap
Their handcrafted soaps come in fantastic scents. One of the best is the mango-papaya. It uses natural plant extracts, locally grown papaya seeds, coconut, soybean and olive oils, along with other terrific ingredients such as Kukui nut oil, Macadamia nut oil, turmeric, chamomile and calendula.
Coconut …read more

Sherri’s Scents and Soy Shop carries handmade soap with fun, swirly, color patterns and fresh scent combinations. Every bar is unique with variations in color, shape, and design.
The Indigo bar is a 5 oz bar of cold process soap that has a clean scent that is a mix of lavender, lemon, grapefruit, mint, and woodsy musk.

Indigo Vegan Soap
$5.75
The Honeysuckle soap contains skin smoothing oils like sunflower seed, coconut, avocado, apricot, and shea butter.

Honeysuckle Soap
$5
The Cut Grass bar has a grass-like striping and would make a lovely decorative Spring accent.

Cut Grass
$5.75
Image credit: Sherri’s Scents and Soy Shop at Etsy.com

The downside of using bar soap is that inevitably the bar develops a white film and becomes gross enough that it starts to defeat the purpose entirely. Whether your soap lives on your bathroom skin counter or perched on a shelf in your shower, it can’t hide from the bacteria you can’t see.
That’s why I was intrigued to read about the ARCONA Berry Fruit Bar, which comes in a lovely glass case for germ protection and portability (for your next impromptu out of town adventure!).
But the ARCONA Berry Fruit Bar is more than just a pretty face – beneath the …read more