Binding: Health and Beauty
Brand: Ivory
Feature: Ivory Clean with the Soothing Scent of Lavender New Ivory with Lavender combines the pure, mild cleansing of Ivory with the light, soothing scent of lavender for a clean that's gentle even on sensitive skin.
Label: Ivory
Manufacturer: Ivory
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Ivory
Release Date: 2006-07-13
Studio: Ivory

• Ivory Clean with the Soothing Scent of Lavender New Ivory with Lavender combines the pure, mild cleansing of Ivory with the light, soothing scent of lavender for a clean that's gentle even on sensitive skin.

• Ivory Clean with the Soothing Scent of Lavender New Ivory with Lavender combines the pure, mild cleansing of Ivory with the light, soothing scent of lavender for a clean that's gentle even on sensitive skin.

Customer Rating:
Summary: no more business from me
Comment: Even though the lavender soap was as I expected, I also ordered the aloe Ivory that I had been buying locally. When it arrived, I sent an email to Amazon to inform them that the item received was NOT the item pictured in the order. I was promptly sent an email informing me that I was wrong. I have good vision and had been using the correct item for some time. I did know what I was talking about!!! I kept the soap, donated it to our local homeless shelter and decided then and there to mark Amazon off my list of places to shop. Thank you for the chance to vent. Mrs. Barbara Barnes

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Customer Rating:
Summary: What can I say
Comment: Growing up in the 60s, soap was soap. It didn't promise to save the world (natural, environmentally safe), offer an experience (relaxing, invigorating) or claim health benefits (moisturizing, age defying). Our blue collar family of 7 used whatever our parents bought: Lifeboy, Ivory, Dial and Sweetheart to name a few. Their purchases were based on sale prices, not brand loyalty. "Soap is soap, it all does the same thing" my mother would say.

My seduction away from bar soap started rather innocently in the 1980s. At that time there was a big push for home users to switch over to liquid soap (Softsoap) and I was ready to go. It seemed that whatever I did, the bar on the bathroom sink was always mushy and slimy. Worse was the bar that I left by the laundry tubs. Since it was used less, it was dry, cracked and dirty looking, yuck. US advertisers were not yet pushing the concept of shower gels and since I shopped for my soap at the grocery store (exclusive bath shops were out of my league) I wasn't exposed to this wonder of the twentieth century. I was fine with using a bar in the shower as I had one of those wire soap holders in the tub which drained my bar perfectly (no slimy goop).

All of this changed with a trip to England. The hotel that I stayed in didn't have a shower bar, it had shower gel. Hmmm, I wasn't quite sure how to use it and when I tried it I wasn't sure that I liked it all that well. The natives informed me (over casual conversation) that bar soap was "unsanitary" a concept that I had never thought about. Unsanitary? I had always thought soap was very sanitary. After all, we used it to clean ourselves. But that did seem to be the mantra that the US advertisers picked up on and with enough subtle repetition I began to believe. Do you remember those commercials about "soap SCUM?" Soon the shelves in the grocery store and the tub in my bathroom had this modern marvel. How splendid it was in all of its many colors and fragrances. I also loved the fact that it didn't leave SCUM on my glass shower door. The advertisers must have been right.

I have to say that I forgot about bar soap for many years. It became like a comfortable pair of old shoes that I forget in the back of the closet. Year after year, bottle after bottle my affair with shower gel continued until, well... my wife. She was also hooked on gel but she started to develop severe eczema and it seemed like there was nothing that we could do about it. The itching was driving her mad. She switched to very expensive liquid cleansers with some relief but a solution was not at hand. That was until an acquaintance casually mentioned to me that she had eczema and found out that she was allergic to one of the many chemicals in shower gel. She also mentioned (with some subtle questioning on my part) that shower gel is really detergent, not soap, and so it strips the protective oils from the skin more effectively and therefore it is more likely to cause skin irritation.

I mentioned this to my wife, but like any addict she was unwilling to give up her shower gel drug. She was willing to buy products that didn't contain the offending chemical (propylene glycol) and that did make a difference. Most of those products were creamy in color and had gross fragrances like coconut, not manly enough for me . I stuck to the regular colorful, fragrant gels like Mango and Melon. Ah, well, um...I think those smells are more manly than coconut.

Fast forward about a year and you can see me scratching my neck like mad. Oh no, early eczema for me! Well it was time to change and maybe time to see if my old friend, soap, was willing to come back to me. I wasn't even sure if the stuff was still being sold as I didn't recall seeing it on the shelves anymore. I decided that a field trip to Kmart was in order. I elected to travel there during the work week so I could avoid the crowd, which would allow me to have the quality time that I would need for proper research in the bath and beauty aisle.

The trip was uneventful but eye opening. Soap did still exist but it was relegated to death row, the bottom shelf of the display case. Some of my soap friends seem to have passed on, Lifeboy, Sweetheart and others. Some remained, Ivory, Dial, Safeguard, but they had changed over the years in an attempt to catch the consumer's eye. Sort of like an aging actor who dons a new wig in an effort to compete with younger talent. The packages had new buzzwords that promised more than just getting you clean, they promised the user an experience. Individual brands no longer offered a simple choice of pastel colors, they seemed to come in a new plethora of formulations and fragrances. How confusing and how like their arch-rival, shower gel.

I thought I would stick with basics, Ivory. But to signify my shower gel sophistication I decided to walk on the wild side buying their "light lavender" bar. Anyway, the price was the same as regular Ivory and as a matter of fact, dirt cheap. I did some mental math (I was born before the advent of the calculator) and realized the shower gels that I had been purchasing were typically 3-5 times the cost of this simple bar, and I wasn't buying the boutique stuff. More research was in order. My mind quickly concocted an elaborate experiment (I had been a research scientist in the past) but pure laziness promptly extinguished that plan. Instead, I decided to explore the source of all truth and knowledge, the Internet.

To my surprise there wasn't a lot of research on the bar vs. gel question and I had to rely on other's opinions and my own savvy analytic mind. Two interesting points emerged:
Women use up cleansing products 2-4 times faster than men. This is surprising since we men typically have more square footage and (sadly) smell worse. The second point was more enlightening. It seems that a bar of soap (that is treated well) last the typical guy about a month of daily showers. The same can be said of a typical bottle of shower gel. Amazing, I was paying 3-5 times what I needed to. Isn't scientific research wonderful!

So what of my Ivory experience. Did it change my life? Give me younger more youthful skin? Invigorate or relax me? Sadly, no, it did just what my mother said 50 years ago. It cleaned me. How much more can you ask for? Oh, by the way, it doesn't irritate my skin.

Good, simple, soap. Not a lot of additives, colors or strong fragrances and it washes me as well as my expensive/irritating shower gel. I guess, what's old is new. Sadly, I still can't go back to the goopy soap dish but the shower bar is here to stay.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Ivory Lavender
Comment: Wonderful product, inexpensive, long-lasting. Leaves skin clean and soft and not dry. Lovely fragrance, and while not advertised, according to Wikipedia, it's the best antimicrobial made.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: all right by me !!!
Comment: This type of Ivory soap has that awesome lavender fragrance--and it really makes a difference! Regular Ivory soap doesn't really please me because it has a scent that I just don't personally like. This type of Ivory soap has a fine yet mild lavender scent that will not overwhelm you.

The soap, of course, goes a long way toward making my sensitive skin much smoother. That counts--my skin around the bridge of my nose and my feet is often so dry that it flakes all over and it's not exactly attractive. Ivory fights that successfully.

Amazon correctly notes that there is a mild scent to this soap. If you're allergic to scents or perfumes, choose another type of soap. I believe there is a type of unscented Ivory for sale on this website.

If you can catch a sale on this, stock up!

Overall Ivory soap with a lavender scent is a good type of soap to use when you want to feel clean and have a light deodorizing fragrance on your body at the same time. I highly recommend it.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: lavender ivory soap
Comment: I used to be able to find this soap at various supermarkets, but it must have been a limited-run or seasonal item, so I bought it online. At first I thought someone got the order mixed up because the soap I received was white (and not lavender as it was in the store), but it was the same soap. Good product at a good price, no complaints.

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