Define a bar soap’s job as “getting dirt and other things off without damaging your skin,” however, and it’s a different story. First off, there’s a job just as important as cleaning off dirt that most bar soaps are not very good at doing: exfoliation, or removing dead skin, and leaving your skin free from pore clogging residue.
Skin is made of dozens of layers of cells. New ones are constantly being made on the inside and pushing the old ones to the outside, where they dry up and, if dry enough, will visibly flake off. Usually, however, they tend to come off invisibly when you wash.
And that’s what bar soaps are just not good enough at doing. They only get some of the dead cells off, and they leave behind a residue (including those dead cells) that tends to clog pores, which can even increase acne breakouts.
When you use a higher-quality exfoliating cleanser, you not only scrub more of the dead cells off, revealing the younger, fresher skin below. You also open up those same pores, so they don’t clog and cause breakouts. (On your face, removing more of that outer layer also means hair and beard follicles are better exposed, for a closer shave.)
But the other important reason to use something other than that “soap on a rope” your dad used is that bar soap contains grease-cutters which not only do their job, they overdo it. They cut through both the oils you build up during the day — and the oils you need to keep your skin from drying out. And it’s dry skin that ages, wrinkles, damages in the sun, and chaps in the winter.
A better-formulated exfoliating cleanser in combination with a moisturizer will enable you to be even cleaner than someone using that old yellow bar, while allowing your skin to keep its natural protection against aging and damage.
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Menscience Daily Body Wash
Jack Black Cool Moisture Body Lotion