Natural Pine Tar Soap for Men and Women, 4 oz Bar, 20% Pine Tar - Handmade Body Soap to Help Relieve Symptoms of Eczema and Psoriasis - Creosote Free - Strong Smoky Campfire Like Scent

I’ve purchased this several times now and think it’s the best pine tar soap I’ve tried to date. It does not dry your skin out like some others I’ve tried, probably due to the lack of sodium. It lathers well and leaves me feeling clean. It does have a strong smell that would be off putting if you don’t like smelling like a camp fire or are sensitive to smells, but that’s the nature of pine tar. Lastly it has zero pine oil added to it so no concerns of smelling like Pine-sol. My only complaint is its intermittent availability.

Holy Frijoles - if you've read the review, you should get the flavor by now, but just in case....If you have only ever used "pine scented", or "Pine Soap by Dr. <Name>" or "Duke <Name>" before, this may be a bit strong for you. Now if the texture of those soaps made you happy, and the film of semi-dry, semi-soft skin left behind made you feel joy, you might like this. But be aware, the scent is STRONG compared to those others. The upside is, it fades once you're out of the shower, but it lingers on your skin for a few hours where the other stuff just kind of faded period. So for a few hours, you still have the pine tar scent. I love it, personally. But while in the shower, the pine tar smell is strong, and the water is dark. If you aren't used to it, it can take adjusting.Most of the complaints here are from people who haven't used "real" soaps before. Guys, real soaps are made with tallow. That means animal fat. Or with root and oil, which means the same basic concept....it melts in hot water. The only soaps that resist melting in hot water, so you can rub them directly in the water and have them last for months are those made using glycerins or other stabilizing agents. So the same chemicals that most of you are buying this kind of soap to avoid. Natural soaps are a bit different.Get yourself wet, turn off the water (or step out of the path of it), lather up your with hand or scrubbing cloth, PUT DOWN THE SOAP SOMEWHERE OUT OF THE WATER, and then scrub. It won't take much to scrub you down, it's STRONG stuff. Repeat as necessary.Here endeth the lesson from someone who grew up using natural soaps - and they last just fine, if you don't treat them as if they were glycerin stabilized, chemically treated bricks of eternity bar.

I love this soap and I want to use it daily. I also love this company but I gotta be critical for similar use cases such as mine. The following critique isn't really about this particular soap but how I imagine any pine tar soap experience would go.What happens is I'll use it in the morning and the smell will wear off (I do enjoy the smell). I'll work all day and not a whiff. However the first day I went to the gym after using it in the morning (8 hours later), when my body heat builds up, the smell came back. Keep in mind I work outside about 50% of the time (I tow cars), and it wasn't an issue. I smelled it on myself the entire time at the gym and especially in the sauna. Whether or not that's a bad thing is up to you. I smelled like a walking campfire and while I don't think it bothered people, they were probably wondering who came straight to the gym after making s'mores.I'll stick to using it on days I don't plan on working out or when I'm gonna be mowing the grass or hiking as I hear the mosquitos and bugs hate it

I bought this soap because I have eczema. My skin gets red, flaky and itchy often. I noticed that when this happened to my scalp, Neutrogena T-gel was the only thing that helped it (besides prescription stuff) and I had tried rubbing the shampoo on my body as well.I decided to look for a pine tar soap, but the overwhelming majority of the ones I found seemed to be using it purely to evoke an 'old timey' scent rather than do any medicating. The fact they use it for the scent is mind boggling to me because pine tar (and coal tar) smell like motor oil. That may be the biggest downside of this soap, it will make your shower smell like a garage and you may want to get a soap case to keep it in when you aren't using it.This brand was one of the only ones that actually tells you how much pine tar is in it and focused on medical benefits, so I gave it a shot. It works well when my skin is flaky and helps take it back to normal. It doesn't do much if my skin is just red and itchy, but the flakiness is the hardest part to get rid of for me (and probably causes some itchiness). It isn't a miracle worker, but it does the job and works better than normal soap. I use it whenever I have a flare up. It is pretty cheap too, so they have acquired a new customer for sure. I also use their other soaps which are great for people with sensitive skin.