The 13 Best Bar Soaps to Lather Up With During Your Next Shower

Megababe's Space Bar Underarm Soap is made specifically for your pits. It's formulated with activated charcoal to pull toxins, tea tree oil to clarify, vitamin C to brighten and so many more great ingredients. Our favorite though? The sodium chloride in it that eliminates bacteria and fights odor. 

Kiehl's Ultra Facial Hydrating Concentrated Cleansing Bar gently cleanses skin while maintaining moisture and hydration. This is thanks to the squalane and glacial glycoprotein in the formula. 

The Beekman 1802 Milk Bar Probiotic Facial Cleansing Bar holds a cocktail of ingredients like goat milk and probiotic extracts to deeply nourish and keep skin balanced. With just a little bit of water, this bar lathers and cleanses like a charm. 

Made with shea butter, olive oil, and sunflower seed extract, the Off Court Exfoliating Body Soap hydrates, moisturizes, and soothes skin. Not to mention, there are white pumice and salt particles in the bar that help remove dead skin with use. 

The Aesop Body Cleansing Slab is an oversized vegetable-based soap that smells equal parts citrusy and sexy, thanks to natural infusions of bergamot, ylang-ylang, and lime. When mixed with water, the pH-balanced bar produces a barely-there lather that cleans skin without stripping it.

The Chanel No. 5 The Bath Soap makes one chic shower. Not only does it look elegant atop a soap dish (or really anywhere), but it also smells divinely like Chanel's iconic No. 5 fragrance. (Need we say more?)

Caress is an expert at infusing its products with luxurious-smelling fragrances. This bar, Daily Silk Beauty Bar, for example, elicits notes of orange blossom and white peach, which linger ever-so-subtly as you lather up — and after you dry off.

As you might have guessed, seaweed is the star of The Seaweed Bath Co. Exfoliating Detox Body Soap — but not the only one. Arabica coffee exfoliates and provides a boost of antioxidants, cinnamon invigorates skin and improves elasticity, and a blend of kukui, coconut, and sunflower oils leave the skin cells that haven't been sloughed off with a big boost of hydration. No wonder it received Allure's 2018 Best of Beauty Award for bar soap.

This Allure Best of Beauty winner looks like soap and smells like soap, but don't be fooled — it contains zero trace of the stuff. Instead, the Dove White Beauty Bar relies on a much milder cleanser, sodium lauroyl isethionate, to whisk away grime without stripping skin. On the contrary, this beauty bar leaves skin soft and supple, thanks to its composition of one to four moisturizing cream.

Similar to its liquid cleanser counterparts, this soap-free cleansing bar is a godsend for dry, itchy skin. Cetaphil's Gentle Cleansing Bar lathers without stripping skin of its natural oils, and it doesn't leave any semblance of residue. Plus, it's formulated for all skin types and features a mild, non-polarizing scent, making it a can't-go-wrong option for shared shower spaces.

If you've dismissed bar soap as a dry skin culprit, allow this one to restore your faith. Made from African black soap — i.e. ashes from the likes of plantains and cocoa pods — plus an infusion of shea butter, aloe, and oats, this multipurpose bar simultaneously soothes skin and targets acne blemishes. The SheaMoisture African Black Soap is so gentle, in fact, that it can even be used to calm eczema-prone skin.