I got this soap in Tea tree & KawaKawa from the last BR vault to try something different as I rarely use soap bars, but have been influenced to give some natural ones a go as I know how much some BR ladies love lovely soaps!
This soap comes packaged in brown paper tied up with string, no frills. The soap is a creamy beige color with what I assume is flakes of dried KawaKawa leaf through it. It smells like standard tea-tree oil, not a pretty smell but a refreshing change from the usual sweet, floral and fruity scents of bath and shower products. The soap bar is very large, too large to use whole so I cut off a chunk with a knife to use at a time.
This soap put into action, not a fan. while it's densely buttery when dry, it gets very slimey when wet. Extremely slimey, When I grab the soap in the shower long goopy dregs string from it to the soap tray, like runny boogers.. It leaves my skin literally squeeky clean, overly so I think, I prefer some type of body wash that deposits moisture to the skin and this soap does not.
So I didn't enjoy this soap much, although I would still like to try the charcoal one, it might be different and I've recently discovered with another charcoal product that it's really good for the skin.
This soap is quite different from the sweet, girly scents that I usually go for, but I was actually very pleasantly surprised with it! It came in lovely natural, brown paper wrapping tied with twine, and was cut into a very generous sized chunk. I actually loved how it was very rustic in its packaging, and slightly roughly cut - it gave the soap a very earthy, natural feeling.
The scent is very strongly tea tree, which is great if you like the scent of tea tree. As it is tea tree and charcoal the soap was a black/dark grey colour, but I found it didn't stain my bathroom surfaces at all.
On the skin, this soap lathers up nicely and does not over-dry the skin. I love that this is a NZ band, and uses products that are known for their excellent natural cleansing qualities.
I did find the soap slightly slimy, but it didn't worry me too much.