Cleansing Soap Set of 3 with Charcoal and Hinoki Oil

Great body soap! It's got a great scent and makes my skin feel and look great after using it. Considering I don't need to use a lot of it and it's imported, it's a good value for the price. It's a great product.

I’m very much a lover of old Japanese culture, and I just love hinoki, sugi, etc. I had the pleasure of bathing in a several hinoki tubs in Japan, and they let off such a heavenly aroma when filled with steaming hot water. To my delight, I was able to purchase a larger bar of this soap at a Tokyu Hands in Kyoto a few years ago, but couldn’t bring myself to use it because it was to my knowledge irreplaceable. So I just used it as decoration, knowing any day I pleased I could start using it if I felt so compelled. Thankfully I found this item on Amazon, a package of three smaller bars of this marvelous bar soap. It’s incredibly fine-milled, and so a little goes a long way, easily working up a luxurious lather. If you’re into hinoki specifically, or just like the smell of aromatic woods, it doesn’t get much better than this, certainly not at this price-point. $20 may seem like a lot for such little soap, but because the quality is so high and it lasts so long, especially if you use it only as a facial soap as I do, it’s a well-justified investment if you love this sort of thing. Makes my shower just that much more refreshing and invigorating. I LOVE this stuff. If only they made the white horse soap variety as well!

While this soap seems like quality soap, if you are buying it for the hinoki aspect, be warned, you only get the scent of hinoki upon immediately opening the soap from the wrapper. After that, it's a pleasant enough and very serviceable charcoal soap that I would say decently moisturizes and exfoliates. But if you spend over $20 on three small bars of soap because you like the smell of hinoki and thought that would be consistent throughout the soap's use, you'll be disappointed like me. Update 7/13/2023: I am adding another star to this. I am still a little disappointed by the lack of hinoki scent but this is very much a quality soap. It is very well milled and lasts for a LONG time. I still have not finished my first bar.

I would definitely but this soap again. Has a decent smell and cleans really well anything with hinoki in it is usually a automatic thumbs up.

I have started getting into trying different soaps and this one is really great. The packaging it came in looks extremely lovely, if you want to give it as a gift it definitely feels like a luxury soap. Even the soaps are individually wrapped in a nice wrapping with japanese on it. The bars are small but they are extremely nice looking. It has almost a stone like color that doesn't really change after a few washes so it looks nice in your shower (some soaps just deform or turn scummy looking but this one is pretty solid). For how it uses in the shower, it isn't as harsh as some soaps you can definitely feel the higher oil content so you aren't just stripping it all from your body which is good. The scent is very strong when you first use the bar and tones down after a few uses. The smell is like pine but sweeter, it was a bit strong for me at first but after a few uses it was very pleasant. It is hard to describe but I personally liked the smell. It doesn't really linger after it's use if you aren't as crazy about the scent.

I've been using this brand of soap for a couple years now. I really enjoy the scent and texture of this brand particularly. The oil in the soap keeps my skin looking good and does not cause any irritation, which I normally have had with other non-all nature soaps. Even my teenage son has begun taking it for himself once he tried it.

This cleared up my boyfriend's acne on his arms and back and also faded the old scars he had from years of body acne and it worked very quickly. We were amazed! If you are dealing with the same thing, I very highly recommend trying this soap out

If not for the smell, I might give this a higher rating. The size for the price isn't exactly desirable either, but I could deal with that if not for the bizarre smell. It's not that I haven't had other activated charcoal soaps, it just smells like a very sterile hospital room. It has a potent medical smell, but even worse is the smell it leaves behind in the shower. After getting to the 2nd bar, I started noticing the smell of stale urine in my shower. I couldn't figure out where it was coming from so I cleaned the whole shower, including the drain, and threw out the bar thinking something may have tainted in the shower somehow. The smell was gone until after I opened up a new bar and used it for a week, the smell returned. I repeated the cleaning and left the bar in my other bathroom in a plastic baggy and the smell never came back. So that tells me something about the used bar or its used lather is causing this secondary urine smell. I've switched to another bar and haven't had any issues since.

I purchased this soap set as a gift for a friend. I was drawn to the charcoal formula and the traditional hinoki scent. My friend mentioned that the hinoki fragrance was very pleasant and relaxing. The set of three bars is also convenient and suitable for everyday use. Overall, I’m happy with my choice as a gift.

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Friend went to Japan and brought this soap back as a gift. Since then I've been ordering it. So far it's one of the best soaps I've ever used. It doesn't really have a scent but I love the way my skin feels after using this soap. Will be buying again and again.

Love this charcoal soap! A little expensive, the quality is really good!! arrived in time! in good condition!