It's Just Soap, Folks.
Written: Dec 05 '07
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Product Rating:
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Pros: It gets you clean.
Cons: Far too expensive and full of itself.
The Bottom Line: Don't believe the advertising. This isn't magical, it's soap.
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| Darkmistress's Full Review: Fresh Sugar Soap Lemon 1 Each |
As you may or may not know, I received a gift set of fresh Lemon Sugar stuff for Teacher's Day last March. Teacher's Day is a Korean holiday where students traditionally brought flowers to their teachers to show their appreciation. I work in a rather wealthy school so flowers just wouldn't do the trick. No, there's a lot of competition among the parents over who can give the snazziest gift. I ended up getting a lot of very expensive gifts I would never have sprung for using my own money. I also review the other parts of this gift set, the body wash (which I loved) and the lotion (which is merely okay in my eyes.) The last part of the set was a bar of soap.
The soap is the only thing I let my husband use. I laid claim to the fantastic body wash immediately and stashed the lotion where my husband won't find it. (Hey, just because I didn't think it was wonderful doesn't mean I want to squander it on him.)
It was a good sized bar of soap and it did have a pretty good scent, but not as strong as the body wash or lotion. That scent didn't linger very long either and it didn't make the bathroom smell good. Honestly, it didn't make the bathroom smell anything. And it melted about as fast as Dove, the fastest melting soap in the market this side of straight glycerine. It didn't make my skin all that soft either. The body wash leaves me feeling slippery, but the soap didn't. In the end, when it finally melted away to nothing, I didn't miss it all that much and never considered buying a bar of my own. Good lord, at $13 a bar, forget it.
Then I went to the website as part of my research for my reviews and I read this:
"It all started with soap. Such a simple thing. So everyday. And yet in 1991, it proved impossible for Lev and Alina to find one that met their criteria."
Now, I'm not completely innocent to the wiles of advertising copy. I read S.I Hiakawa's Language In Action and I've written a little copy myself, but please. Is it possible that there are people who believe this hogwash. The soap is nice, but it ain't that nice. I think if I had been on the fence about buying more (as if that would happen with that price tag. My husband thinks I'm going crazy when I spend more than $1 on a bar of soap.) that ad copy would have driven me right off.
Honestly, it's just soap. Don't buy the advertising.
I can't find ingredients for the Sugar Lemon, but from the looks of things, aside from scent, the soaps have most of the same ingredients. This is the list for Mangosteen.
Ingredients:
SODIUM PALMATE
SODIUM PALM KERNELATE
WATER (AQUA)
GLYCERIN
PALM ACID
BUTYROSPERMUM PARKII (SHEA BUTTER)
FRAGRANCE (PARFUM)
SODIUM CHLORIDE
SODIUM HYDROXIDE
TETRASODIUM EDTA
TETRASODIUM ETIDRONATE
ANISE ALCOHOL
BENZYL BENZOATE
CITRONELLOL
LIMONENE
LINALOOL
BHT
Recommended:
No
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