The Cleansing Bar Edit

Well, now that cleansing is all the rage and it’s never been more important to be aware about staying clean, we thought it was time to talk about an eco-conscious trend that was becoming increasingly popular… cleansing bars!

Cleansing bars are meant to replace your usually plastic heavy products, ones that often are used up quickly and frequently, leading to quite a bit of waste which affects the environment hugely…. In this feature, we’re focusing on ones for the face and hair.

These cleansing bars are not only good for the environment, but they’re all jam packed with loving ingredients to nurture your skin as they cleanse… they’re not going to strip you dry but will give your skin a loving hug.

Eco Warrior – Sensitive Facial Bar

Sensitive skin babes – this is for you! This gentle facial bar utilises Chamomile & Calendula Essential Oils for a gentle but effective cleanse – beautiful.  What’s also great is that it’s made from 99.9% naturally derived ingredients.

Eco Warrior – Clarifying Charcoal Bar

This is for those of you who have more oily skins… it contains a mix of charcoal and tea tree to cleanse the skin effectively. This fab bar is made from 99.5% naturally derived ingredients.

Buy the sensitive bar for £4 from Boots
Buy the charcoal bar for £4.50 from Sainsburys

Gallinee – Cleansing Bar

This cleansing bar has everything that you could ask for in a modern cleansing bar- it’s soap free – its ph balanced – it protects your skins microbiome- it is a pre biotic bar- it has lactic acid – its gentle – you can use it on your face and your body! Leaves your skin smooth and silky.

Buy the Gallinee Cleansing bar for £10 from Gallinee

LIHA Ose Gida Black Soap

Now this is not just any old soap, this vegan soap is a handmade African Black soap, jampacked with skin nourishing goodies such as organic shea butter, coconut oil, hemp seed oil and moringa. Every single ingredient in this soap serves a skin nourishing purpose.

Buy the soap for £12 from Liha

Love Absolute – Blue Moon Cleansing Bar

Buy the Blue Moon cleansing bar for £15 from Wow Beauty

Maison Meunier – Natural Charcoal Cleansing Bar

I discovered this charcoal cleansing bar while judging for the Beauty Shortlist and became addicted. Apart from activated charcoal this lush bar contains shea butter, cocoa butter,  olive oil, castor oil, tea tree oil, rosehip oil and lavender oil and it smells gorgeous too. it’s perfect for face and body and is particularly good at drawing out dirt and impurities that may be blocking your pores.

Buy the soap for £6 from Maison Meunier

Fat and Moon – Shampoo

This shampoo is described as one for all types of people and hair types – love that! It utilises Rhassoul clay to cleanse the hair gently but effectively.

I appreciate that this is a foaming shampoo as I was a little concerned that it wouldn’t. It lathers up well when applied directly to the scalp and gives the hair a nice gentle cleanse without stripping it – really lovely.

Fat and Moon – Conditioner

This conditioner is called an everlasting gobstopper for the hair – that it lasts AGES and I have to say, even after using it a few times it doesn’t seem to get any smaller, which is great! You rub this under water and then glide it through the hair to condition – it does take some getting used to but it does feel nice on the hair. One of the key ingredients in this is cocoa butter to nourish the hair.

What I also appreciate with this brand is that you can request to be sent the product without the tin – meaning that you don’t end up hoarding too many of them with repeat purchases – you can just reuse the tin over again. I get through a lot of shampoo and conditioner (well, conditioner more than shampoo to be honest) so being able to not add more waste into the environment this way makes me feel good.

Buy the Fat and the Moon Shampoo for £16 from Live in the Light

Buy the Fat and the Moon Conditioner for £16 from Live in the Light