Buck Naked

Which Buck Naked soap should I start with?

The bars differ more in what they do than in how they smell. Pick the row that matches your skin and the scent follows from it.

How is this different from a supermarket bar?

Buck Naked handmake their bars in small batches using the traditional cold-process method. Most drugstore “soap” bars are synthetic detergent bars produced by a different process entirely.

As with many handmade soap bars, keeping the bar dry between uses is the thing that extends its life. How long a bar lasts depends on the oils, the cure and its size as much as anything else — but a bar left sitting in water will always disappear faster than one that drains.

What are the bath salt soaks for?

They are for soaking rather than washing — you run the bath, add a scoop, and get in. Buck Naked makes them on three different bases: dead sea salt, himalayan salt, and a magnesium blend in the old fashioned soak.

The coconut milk baths are the softer alternative: milk powder and clay instead of salt, which suits skin that finds a salt soak drying.

Do the sugar scrubs replace soap?

No — a sugar scrub exfoliates but does not really clean, so it goes on before the soap rather than instead of it. Use one once or twice a week on damp skin, rinse, then wash as normal.

Scrub scents mirror the soaps: vanilla chai, jasmine and charcoal, geranium and purple clay.

Beard care and gift bags

There is a small men's line here too: bergamot and black pepper beard balm and cedar and sage beard oil. The essentials bags collect several products into one ready-made gift, which saves assembling a set yourself.

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