Cream, amber and dark bars in a flat lay on weathered wood with dried flowers

4.8 · 118

Kokum & Shea

Repairing bar for cracked, weathered skin

₹400Incl. of all taxes

Nothing added for smell, and superfatted to eight percent — meaning roughly a twelfth of the oils are left unsaponified on purpose, sitting on the skin after the rinse. Kokum butter comes from the Western Ghats and is harder than cocoa, which is what keeps a bar this rich from turning to paste in the dish. We send this one to people whose skin has stopped tolerating things.

Smells like

No added fragrance
Faint nuttiness of the butters

Size

40 left from batch 05

Batch: 05
Poured: 14 JUN
Cured: 6 WK
Net: 100 G

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What is in it, by weight

Olive oil
36%
Kokum butter
20%
Western Ghats, cold-pressed
Shea butter
18%
Unrefined, Ghanaian
Coconut oil
12%
Kept low on purpose
Castor oil
6%
Lye water
8%
Superfat held at 8%

Saponified with sodium hydroxide. None remains in the cured bar.

The rest of it

Everything else worth knowing first.

1Anywhere skin has cracked — knuckles, heels, elbows.
2Leave the film it deposits. That is the superfat doing its work.
3Safe on infants over six months.

Verified purchases

4.8

118 reviews · 3 shown

Batch 06 · July
Four years of eczema, first thing that worked
I had written off bar soap completely. Two months in and the patches on both hands have not come back. I do not know what else to say about it.
Ananya R. · Bengaluru · Verified purchase
Batch 06 · July
Very rich, very slow
Almost buttery in the hand. It does need to dry properly between uses or it softens, but ours has lasted nine weeks.
Joseph D. · Thrissur · Verified purchase
Batch 05 · June
Bought for the baby, kept for myself
No fragrance to speak of, nothing that stings. Our paediatrician had no objection, which is more than she said about the last thing we tried.
Shreya B. · Guwahati · Verified purchase