Serum Body Wash Ultra Gentle hydrating cleanse with only 10 essential ingredients 18.5 Fl Oz

My skin's a little bit sensitive. I have combination skin - it's always been oily, but as I move on into the end of middle age, it's also dry, to the point that I can't use Marseilles soap any more as it dries the skin out to the point of itching. Never mind the occasional psoriasis flare, which can be provoked by stress, weird residues from products, or nothing at all. I liked Marseilles soap because it's a tried and true product with 3 ingredients, but it's over between us. For a long time, Aveeno body wash was my go to. It had a mild fragrance, it was slightly moisturizing, and got me clean without irritating my skin. But it got more and more expensive - I guess natural products like meadowsweet oil don't grow on trees - and just now it was "reformulated." The new formulation has other essential oils and gives the term "fragrance free" a bad name - it smells strong and foul, to the point that my first squirt of it was my last. I've changed back to the pink Neutrogena body wash, but it's a touch drying and has an incredibly strong aroma - for this migraine sufferer, it's like getting hit across the face with a baseball bat, either when I have a migraine or when I'd like not to develop one. Welcome, Dove Ultra Sensitive. 10 artificial ingredients, all chemicals I know from other cleanser labels. No color - it's clear like water. No aroma - if you really take a deep whiff, you can smell a tiny hint of something, maybe like sniffing high quality cardstock - a neutral and very, very faint aroma. I think a normal non-migraine person would say it has no odor at all. (For reference, I cut garlic 3 days ago, shower every day, wash my hands 5x or more a day; and I'd say my fingertips smell about 50x as strong right now as this Dove bodywash.) It got me clean, almost sticky, quickly and with no irritation. I confess I was curious so I let a little bit get into one eye - didn't sting, quickly blinked it out, no muss no fuss. And it all went down the shower drain - left no residue at all. I think, just looking around, that most folks prefer cleansers with strong colors and aromas. If that's not you, you're home. Have a seat and snuggle in.

This stuff is wonderful! Its so gentle on my highly sensitive skin that has multiple allergies. I have a lovely time taking a shower with this product. It lathers extremely well. I'm very intense with my cleaning routine and have certain OCD habits, and have usually needed to use lots of soap, adding more soap after washing each section of my body. Not so with this product. 3 or 4 squirts scrunched well into the rag is enough for my whole entire body! It's very soft and thick, and easy to apply throughout the body. It has no fragrance, which is great, because I'm allergic to all fragrance types. I love the size of the bottle too. It's Goldilocks-style just right. Not too big, not too small, easy to handle. The pump is the best part, which I was originally worried about. Other pumps are too stiff or loose, and the bottles fall out of my hands. I have roommates, so we can't have a soap rack hanging from the showerhead pipe any longer, because people fought over it. So now, people keep their things on storage racks, very organized, on a cabinet outside of the shower. We just rest our things on the tub sill when we use the shower. I have to sit down to shower because of my bad back. I worried about not being able to use the pump, because I have to hold the rag, hold the bottle and press the pump. Two hands only! I can hold the bottle with one hand and squeeze the pump with my thumb, which makes it super easy. The ingredients are very light and no harmful or harsh chemicals are included. My Contact Dermatitis, Excema and Erethea (body-wide "razor burn" from simple grooming) has significantly reduced since I started using this product. Their earlier sensitive skin product that similar to this was discontinued, and I was originally very disappointed. I'm not disappointed anymore. It has been greatly improved by many times. It has been more gentle on my skin, lathers better, and is overall a much more enjoyable bathing experience. It's quite pricy for me on Social Security, but I would rather pay extra for a product that is gentle on my skin, than continue using Dollar Tree brands that rip my skin to pieces with harsh chemicals that I'm allergic too, and cause me to be in absolute pain for a week, and shine red over my entire body, brighter than Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer's nose! Now I can actually bathe every day instead of having to wait a whole week to wait for my skin inflammation to go down! Since I'm disabled and don't work, I don't have to go anywhere, so I used to only shower once a week. Now I can be clean like everybody else. I cannot recommend any other bodywash more than this.

This is one of fewer & further between products I can use that doesn't cause a negative reaction. The consistency is more like commercially available, bottled aloe (think the pump bottle filled with green goo), than a creamy product that most of us liken to body wash. I feel like I have to use a little more than other body washes previously purchased & since it's a little more expensive, it definitely doesn't last as long. BUT! ..... It works for cleansing my body & I can use it as a shave gel. There really isn't any fragrance & it doesn't lather like other products. Just keep in mind to get a different outcome from any product, it's not really fair to compare it to other products (mostly a note to self). The only real downside I see is the pump style bottle leaves product in the bottom. I wish this were in a squeeze bottle that could be stored upside down in order for less product waste. Maybe I'll find a bottle here that I can transfer this into.

Great product as someone who has very sensitive eczema prone skin. I used this after having a severe eczema outbreak and it was so gentle and moisturizing to my skin, while still feeling clean. It really does not have a smell; I also used it on my lady parts and no negative reactive. Overall great product, just wish it came in a bigger size. I bathe twice daily so this size bottle does not last long for me.