Smooth move!

Reasons to be glad you can say goodbye to shaving cream:
1. Shaving cream companies test on animals (Barbasol being the exception and my go-to... until now)
2. The waste you produce tossing that can every few weeks

3. The dreaded rusty ring
4. It's bulky and non-travel friendly

At long last! After searching high and low for a cruelty-free shaving cream which actually delivers a perfectly smooth shave and leaves zero bumps on my super sensitive skin.... I've got it!

It's not often I'm so excited by something as simple as a bar of soap, but you'll see what I mean if you suds up with this little bar of magic! Cruelty free, 100% organic, AND there's a great story (who doesn't love a great story?!).

SheaMoisture is the extension of the founders' Grand Ma Sofi's legacy. In 1916, she began gathering and trading Shea Butter and other harvests at the Bonthe village market in Sierra Leone, to support her young family. Four years later, she opened a tiny shop selling her home made products using Shea Butter, Palm Oil, Coconut Oil and other local produce. In 1992 the SheaMoisture Company was founded, offering her home remedies and their healing properties to their friends and extended family.

SheaMoisture's African Black Soap with Shea Butter incorporates the ancient medicinal properties of Black Soap and the enriching, hydrating properties of Shea Butter to cleanse and balance problem skin. SheaMoisture's Black Soap recipe contains palm ash, plantain peel extract, tamarind extract, papaya enzymes and salicylic acid to balance dry skin and treat eczema, acne, oily skin, psoriasis and other skin ailments. This rich lathering bar deep cleanses without stripping moisture.

The company also sells a myriad of other lovely products which I intend to try next... like a little ball of lovely-smelling solid conditioner, hand soaps, body scrubs, lotion, etc...

Available at Target and many online retailers (The African Black Soap is $4-5 and will last a lot longer than that rusty can of shaving cream)

Historical Tidbit:
African black soap originates from Ghana, is made from plantain skin and is a natural source of vitamins A & E and iron. The skin of the plantain is dried under the hot African sun, then roasted in a clay oven. The roasted plantain skin is mixed with palm oil and palm kernel oil to form the soap. And in some recipes, the shell of the cocoa pod is used instead of plantain.