Pamper your skin everyday (Nivea Creme Soap Bar with Almond Oil)

Member Name: Whizz11

Product:	Nivea Creme Soap Bar with Almond Oil
Date:	13/10/08 (227 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Smells fresh and clean

Disadvantages: Not enough moisture

Pamper your skin everyday!!

We all like to smell nice and clean (well, sometimes quite a few people on the tube in London like to dispel this rumour but anyway...) and one of my favourite companies for doing this is Nivea. We all know Nivea, the global skin and body care brand. They products are very recognizable as they come in blue containers with white writing on the front and promote a very clean, polished marketing look. The company was actually founded in 1911 by the Germany company Beiersdorf.

Like I said Nivea is known for its clean fresh products that do not use any dyes or colourings in them, etc. In fact the owner of the company Oskar Troplowitz actually named it Nivea after the Latin word niveus/nivea/niveum meaning snow white. This now makes sense as to why it is called what it's called and in my opinion is a very fitting and just name.

I am actually going to review one of their soap products as it is a favourite of my husbands but in some ways not a favourite of mine even though I do like most of their products. The soap in question is the Nivea Crème Soft Cream Soap with mositurising almond. The soap comes in a bar which is probably about 7cm long and 3cm in height. It weighs 125g. I like that it is quite a thick bar of soap and is curved at the edges to make it easy to hold onto. It has the name Nivea embossed in the middle of the soap. I would say that each bar of soap between two people in our household probably lasts for about 2 weeks which I think it quite good value. To buy a pack of these at Sainsburys (a pack contains 3 bars of soap) it will cost you £1.25, quite good value I think.

The soap has such a clean, fresh smell with no fruit smells or spa type smells which is really nice. It does make you feel like you are getting a quality, fresh product that will work well as it has no preservatives or chemicals in it.

On the packet it informs you that the soap, "gently cleanses and cares for your skin leaving it feeling soft and smooth." Now, this is the one thing I don't like about the soap. When I get my hands wet and lather up the soap I find it seems to strip my hands of moisture and makes them almost squeaky clean and not in a good way. It feels like they are not getting the moisture they attest to. However, after I have dried my hands they do not seem to be dry and chapped though so maybe that is the way the soap works, to me it just does not feel like they are being covered in a nice rich crème to which the title would suggest.

I would say all in all a good soap and my hands smell very fresh after using it but perhaps not the nicest soap out there on the market.

Summary: Nivea Creme Soft Cream Soap