Do you remember your mom using good old Ivory bar soap? The soap that floats? (Remember those commercials?) I sure do, and likewise I always used Ivory to bathe my little girl, because I thought it was the gentlest soap on the market. Now that my baby is all grown up, I haven’t purchased Ivory soap for years. In fact, I had totally forgotten all about it, until I saw Ivory bar soap in a new scent … Lavender!
I absolutely love the smell of lavender, but I like real lavender, not those chemical duplicates that are so often used. Ivory soap is now a regular in our household once again! And it contains natural lavender oil!
Product Description
The Ivory Lavender soap I purchased comes in a four pack. Each bar weighs 4.5 ounces, for a total of 18 ounces (510g) in the package. The packaging is colored in a very light lavender color, with a picture of lavender flowers growing in the left hand corner.
It says it is bar soap for baby smooth skin, and that it will leave skin feeling soft and smooth, naturally. Smelling clean with just a hint of lavender. Ivory has always advertised their soap as being 99.44% pure.
Ingredients
Sodium Tallowate, Sodium Palmate, Water, Sodium Cocoate, Palm Kernelate, Lavandula Angustifolia Oil Lavender, Glycerin, Sodium Chloride, Fragrance, Coconut Acid, Palm Kernel Acid, Tallow Acid, Citric Acid, Sodium Citrate, Tetrasodium EDTA, Red 33, Green 3, Green 5.
It retails for $2.80 for the four pack, so that is quite reasonable.
My Experience
I don’t typically use soap to wash my face, but I did try Ivory Lavender just to see how well it would perform, and I was pleasantly surprised that it didn’t leave my face feeling dry. It lathers nicely, either in my hands or on a washcloth, and it rinses clean leaving no soapy residue behind. I also use this in the bath. I usually use shower gels when I take a shower, but I do like to use soaps when taking a bath. If you’ve ever lost your soap to the bottom of the bathtub, you should know this won’t happen with Ivory. It really does float. This soap does give off a light clean scent, and the lavender is very subtle and not at all overpowering. It almost has a sweet smell, and it lingers for a couple of hours after getting out of the tub.
In looking at the ingredients, I was surprised to see tallow listed. Well, not really surprised, since tallow comes from the fat of sheep or cattle, and has been as an ingredient in soap making for many years. What surprised me was that you just don’t see that ingredient used very often, so many companies these days use petro chemicals instead. Personally, I’d rather use animal fat than petroleum products! In fact, the oil from whale blubber is still used for soap and candle making.
My grandmother used to make her own soap using lard and lye. Lard is just another form of animal fat. So my using Ivory brought back some nostalgic feelings, reminding me of my grandmother. Ivory has been making their famous floating soap since 1879, and I’d say that is a pretty good track record!
I found it very interesting that Proctor & Gamble got the inspiration for the name “Ivory” from the Bible. The 45th Psalm reads, “All thy garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of ivory palaces”.
To conclude, I love this soap because it doesn’t dry out my face or skin, it leaves a light lavender scent, and it is natural – yet it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg like some “all natural” products do. Ivory is a winner, and Ivory Lavender is a great addition to the Proctor & Gamble family.
