🧼 Is Your Soap Sabotaging Your Skin’s Natural Barrier?

Noticed your skin feeling tight, flaky, or red after washing? That’s a red flag—standard soaps can be too alkaline, stripping away your skin’s natural oils and disrupting its protective barrier protected by a healthy pH range of ~4.5–5.5.

Why It Matters

• Damaged barrier = moisture loss, sensitivity, and irritated skin.

• High-pH or harsh cleansers don’t respect your skin’s delicate ecosystem—leaving it dry, reactive, and unhappy.

🔑 The Solution: Gentle, Organic, Moisture-Rich Soap

Potager’s cold-process, plant-based soaps are made with certified organic ingredients—high oleic sunflower oil, olive oil, coconut oil, RSPO palm oil, and shea butter—that cleanse softly while preserving hydration and skin health.

Potager’s commitment to certified organic, fair-trade, cruelty-free ingredients ensures quality, gentle formulation made right in Concord, MA.

🛁 Skin-Saving Potager Soap Picks

French Lavender Bar Soap

A bestseller for a reason. Made with calming lavender essential oil and rich shea butter, this bar soothes the skin and the senses. Perfect for dry, stressed, or easily irritated skin (French Lavender Bars).

Secret Garden Bar Soap

Blends organic lavender, patchouli, and geranium essential oils with high oleic sunflower oil and coconut oils. Gentle and aromatic—this soap cleanses without drying and turns your daily wash into something actually pleasant (Secret Garden Soap).

Rosemary Lemongrass Soap

A refreshing, uplifting blend of rosemary, lemongrass, shea butter, and plant oils—designed to cleanse gently and leave skin smooth, not stripped (Rosemary Lemongrass).

Unscented Oatmeal Soap

For the minimalist, sensitive, or fragrance-averse. This gentle bar uses organic oats to calm and soothe irritation, with no added essential oils or fragrance — just pure, skin-loving ingredients (Unscented Oatmeal).

🌟 How These Soaps Protect Your Skin

1. Plant Oils + Shea Butter: Nourish and support your skin barrier with fatty acids and antioxidants.

2. Glycerin-Rich Formula: Maintains hydration and prevents dryness after rinsing.

3. Balanced pH: Cold-processed method yields soap closer to the skin's natural pH—gentle and protective.

✅ Final Word

Tired of bar soaps that feel like sandpaper? Choose one of these Potager favorites to cleanse gently, moisturize deeply, and support your skin’s natural barrier:

• French Lavender – calming, soft, and a total classic.

• Secret Garden – floral, grounding, gentle on the skin.

• Rosemary Lemongrass – energizing, smooth, and non-stripping.

• Unscented Oatmeal – no fragrance, no drama, just relief.

Explore the full collection here and finally give your skin the love it’s been asking for every time it flakes off in protest.