Exfoliating Luffa Bar - Daily Body Exfoliation for Smoother Skin - 4 oz (113g) Soap Bar with Built-In Luffa, Tea Tree & Grapefruit

Your body sheds skin more slowly than it used to, and almost nobody exfoliates as often as they mean to.

Those two facts sit badly together. The loofah went slimy and got thrown out. The scrub is in the cupboard behind the shampoo you did not like. And so the build-up gathers on shins and elbows and the backs of your arms until one Sunday you decide to do something about all of it at once, which is neither pleasant nor particularly effective. The problem was never willingness. It was that exfoliation was always an extra step.

This is what a luffa set into a bar of soap does about that:

• Natural luffa, fourth of fifteen – poured through the bar rather than sold beside it, so it lifts away dead skin cells every time you wash.
• Shea, cocoa and mango butter – three butters on one ingredient list, which is why a bar that exfoliates does not leave you tight afterwards.
• Coconut oil and glycerin – second and eighth, and the reason it lathers thick rather than squeaking its way through your skin.
• Tea tree and grapefruit oils – the scent, sharp and green and citrus, and the reason the shower smells of something rather than nothing.
• A firm bar, not a sponge – kept dry between uses it stays a bar, where a loofah on a hook is grey within a month.

Left as an extra step, exfoliation is the thing that quietly stops happening, and skin from the knee down is where you see it.

Exfoliating Luffa Bar from VERA is a handmade 4 oz, 113 g bar of fifteen ingredients with the luffa set into it. Add warm water for a thick lather, wash as usual, and keep it dry between uses for extended longevity.

• Smoother shins and elbows without a separate step in the shower
• Skin that comes out comfortable rather than stripped
• One object in the shower instead of a soap and a sponge you keep replacing

🧽 It is firmer than you expect, and it softens

Dry out of the wrapper the luffa feels stiff, almost scratchy. Under warm water it relaxes within seconds and the bar becomes something you can run over a shin without wincing. Anybody who decides it is too harsh has usually judged it before it got wet.

💧 Keeping it dry is the whole difference

Every bad review of every luffa bar ever made comes down to one thing: it sat in a puddle. A bar left in standing water goes soft and disappears in a fortnight. On a rack where it can drain, it stays firm and lasts. The directions say so for a reason.

🍊 The smell is sharp, not sweet

Tea tree and grapefruit is a clean, medicinal, citrus sort of smell rather than a dessert. It fills the shower and it has gone by the time you are dressed. If you were expecting mint, there is no mint in this bar.

📅 Daily beats occasional, and it feels different

A little luffa every day is a much lighter touch than a jar of grit once a fortnight, and the result creeps up on you rather than arriving in one shower. That is the point of it. There is no session to schedule and nothing to brace for.

🧍 Not everywhere, and not every day for everyone

Shins, elbows, knees, feet and the tops of your arms take it easily. Thinner skin does not need it, and if your skin is on the sensitive side, every other day is a better place to start than every day. Skin in midlife is drier than it was, and more is not automatically better.

🧼 What it is not

It is a body bar, not a face bar, and it is not a treatment for anything. It washes and it exfoliates, and everything claimed on this page is about how your skin looks and feels afterwards.

This is a cosmetic and it is written as one. It cleans, it lifts away dead skin cells, and it leaves skin feeling comfortable rather than stripped. Over a few weeks of daily use that shows up as smoother shins and elbows and less build-up to deal with. That is the whole honest scope of a bar of soap with luffa in it.

It is not a treatment, and it will not settle a skin condition. If a patch of your body is sore, itchy, spreading or simply will not calm down, a soap is not the answer to it and VERA would rather point you at a doctor than sell you a second bar.

Two notes on the label. Hemp extract appears on the ingredient list with no quantity and no plant part stated, so this page makes no claim of any kind about it. And no percentage is printed for anything in this bar, so none is quoted here. What is checkable is the order, and luffa is fourth of fifteen.

Patch test on a small area first if your skin reacts easily, and keep the bar away from your eyes.

This was made for a woman who knows perfectly well she should exfoliate and is never going to add a step to do it.

It's especially for you if:

• There is a loofah in your bathroom you have been meaning to throw away for months
• You own a body scrub and use it about four times a year
• Your shins and elbows go rough between one shower and the next
• You want fewer things in the shower rather than more
• You would rather be told what is in a soap than be told it is natural

Handmade, 4 oz, 113 g, fifteen ingredients, luffa fourth on the list and three butters further down it.

It is not for you if you want something for your face, because this is a body bar. It is also not for you if scent is a problem, because tea tree and grapefruit fill a shower. If irritation occurs, stop using it, and rinse thoroughly with clean water if it gets in your eyes.

Chances are, this is the exfoliation you will actually keep doing.

Your order today is backed by our 90-day guarantee. If VERA isn't right for you, return it within 90 days of delivery for a full refund. Simple as that.