Handmade Beard Bar Facial Soap | Natural Bar Soap | Rinse

One bar for the face and the beard underneath it. Dead Sea mud and bentonite clay in a cold-process bar with rosemary and peppermint — lather in your hands, work it through the beard to the skin, rinse. Daily, in the shower. Cut and cured by hand in Monroe, Georgia.

The problem with washing a beard with ordinary soap is that it strips the skin hiding under it, and that's where the itch comes from. This bar is cold-process, which keeps the natural glycerin most commercial bars remove and sell back to you separately. Dead Sea mud adds minerals; bentonite clay draws out the oil and grime that collect at the skin line without taking everything else with it.

Work up a lather in your hands rather than rubbing the bar directly on your face — you'll use less and distribute it better. Push the lather through the beard down to the skin, give it a few seconds, rinse warm. Follow with a facial oil or a tallow balm if your beard runs coarse. Stand the bar on a draining dish between uses and it will last considerably longer.

The scent is rosemary and peppermint, both real essential oils rather than a synthetic stand-in — sharp and herbal in the shower, faded by the time you're dressed. Made in small batches in Monroe, Georgia, where our family has been making soap since 2003.