Thread: Adding things to a soap?

Originally Posted by shaver0011

It is ok for me, but it leaves my skin a little dry and just seems like it isn't the slickest later either.

I can't understand how people can say it dries their skin. I have the VDH Deluxe, too, and the shea in it leaves my skin very well moisturized. Are you sure you're rinsing the soap off completely? Slickness: don't use too much water in making the lather and it should provide adequate slickness. Seriously, VDH Deluxe is a good soap, performance-wise. I don't like the "scent" (more like hand soap odor) but it sure works nice, has good skin conditioning properties and is easy to lather.

Originally Posted by AxelH

I can't understand how people can say it dries their skin. I have the VDH Deluxe, too, and the shea in it leaves my skin very well moisturized. Are you sure you're rinsing the soap off completely? Slickness: don't use too much water in making the lather and it should provide adequate slickness. Seriously, VDH Deluxe is a good soap, performance-wise. I don't like the "scent" (more like hand soap odor) but it sure works nice, has good skin conditioning properties and is easy to lather.

I have used other things before, and it does seem to leave my face dry afterwards around my chin and mouth. The other products, Kiss My Face and Williams never seemed to do that. VDH sometimes leaves my face feeling "tight" in a bad way. Since the product says it is 40% moisturizer (sorbitol with the tiniest amout of shea butter and aloe) by weight I wonder why it dries out my skin but it does seem to.

Either way, my only real problem with it is leaving my skin dry. I will just add a moisturizer and humectant to the later, probably just glycerin and maybe some more pure aloe vera leaf gel. I hope that fixes it. I will see if just adding less water will fix the slickness problem, too. I guess I can't add anything for that. Thanks everyone for all the answers.