What kind of body wash do you use? Are you a loofah girl or do you prefer to use bar soap?

For the most part, I’ve always been a loofah girl myself. Most of my encounters with bar soap or “hotel soap” since that’s usually where I find myself using it have left me with dry skin and a sort of clammy, filmy feeling. It goes away eventually but it always feels like you’ve used some inferior soap-like thing that you’re hoping actually got your skin clean and now you need some moisturizer in the baddest way.

But one advantage to bar soap that I’ve often thought about is the environmental impact – all those plastic body wash bottles add up, never mind the loofahs we use to wash with (I suppose you could use a washcloth, but in my experience the loofah just does a better job distributing the soap). My point is that I’ve sometimes wished I were a bar soap gal just for the simplicity and what I’m assuming is a more environmentally friendly purchase.

I recently received a pack of “beauty bars” as well as a bottle of body wash from Caress’s Evenly Gorgeous Skinwear Collection. With burnt sugar and karate butter, it claims to help moisturize while gently exfoliating and cleansing your skin, revealing “even-toned, radiant and silky skin.” I have used their body wash before so I decided to try the beauty bars to compare and I have to tell you, I was so pleasantly surprised!

The bar is shaped into a sort of curvature which I found helped to keep the bar in my hand while I soaped up. The exfoliating worked really well, I liked the scent a lot and my skin felt so much more soft than any bar soap I’ve ever used has left if feeling. I still think I prefer using the body wash, but I would have a much easier time to converting to bar soap with the Caress Evenly Gorgeous Beauty Bars if I decide to.

My husband tried the beauty bar also as he prefers bar soap for some bizarre reason. He liked the exfoliating bits also and thought it did a good job cleaning – although in the shower he confessed the scent was a bit over powering. But once out of the shower the smell was much milder and didn’t bother him at all. If Caress makes a slightly more masculine scented version of these bars I think he’d love it.

WIN IT!

Thanks to Caress, we’re giving away a set of Caress beauty bars to one lucky Mommas Review  readers. Here’s how you can enter to win:

1. Tell us: What is your favorite brand of body wash? Do you prefer a liquid body wash or bar soap? This is mandatory – if not done, all other entries will be null and void.
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This giveaway is open to U.S. readers only and will end at 12:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, February 10, 2010.

This post was written for Family Review Network as part of a program for Caress, who supplied the product for review.  All opinions expressed in this post are 100% mine.