The Brick pH Balanced Bar Soap for Men – Woodsman, Cedarwood, Medium Grit

Cedarwood, green clay and a medium grit of luffa, pumice and quartz. The Woodsman is the bar for cold mornings, long days and hands that make things, and for the man who would rather trust what has always worked.

Tradition isn’t the same as correct. Lye is traditional. It is also why every bar made the old way comes out at pH 9–10, against skin that sits at 4.5–5.5. The tight feeling afterwards is not honesty and it is not clean; it is skin that has been stripped and will spend the day rebuilding. This bar keeps the ritual and fixes the chemistry.

In the bar. Montmorillonite green clay, olive fruit oil, shea butter, avocado and jojoba oils, oat kernel meal. Earthy, dense and slow to wear down. All-natural, and produced in North America by a maker who has been pressing bars for decades, Hunter Amenities.

The grit. Medium: enough to feel on a back and forearms, not enough to argue with. If you want more, the Smith is waiting; if you want less, the Seafarer.

4.5 oz (127 g). Free shipping in the contiguous US, thirty days to change your mind.