Natural Dead Sea Mud Soap

If it weren't for the heartwrenching review by poor-hermit-who-rarely-left-the-house//dropped-out-from-school//life-was-a-wreck-for-years//finally-found-happiness-via-this-little-bar-of-soap: K.Uyehara's review.... I possibly might have thought twice about purchasing this product.Those "miracle-drug-soap-cure-etc's" just don't exist......... or do they?Apparently, as we age, life tosses you crap.Apparently, I've now 'adult-onset eczema' on my poor little fingers. It's painful, ugly, and costly. The so-called remedy cortisone cream thins your skin to the point that anything you touch leaves bruises. The tiny cracks & slivers of papercut-like skin lesions are painful.... lotion doesn't help and actually stings rather than helps - thus is painful when used. The 3-6 bandaged fingers daily are time-consuming, costly, and 'oh-so-lovely' to look at. The only help I've found is generic Vit E cream (not lotion) applied constantly all day @ work in order to keep my hands moisturized (and for some reason is not painful like lotion). While the Vit E cream helps some, it is in no way a miracle. My bruised & bandaged hands almost constantly look like a 94 year old's. My biggest thrill in life is that 1-2 week period when 'all has calmed down' and I'm bandage-less. My biggest fear is that (usually, at the worst opportune time) the outbreaks shall return.K. Uyehara talked me into trying this product.K. Uyehara gave me hope.K. Uyehara was right!THIS STUFF ROCKS my world!!!It nourishes, it moisturizes, it kills bacteria, it quells the pain, and more importantly - quells my outbreaks.I keep a bar right there by the kitchen sink and use it after every dishwashing and also for no reason at all. I probably wash my hands with this stuff 12+ times a day!!This little bar is a MIRACLE!!!Albeit, not a fix.... but miracle enough to give me much further times between outbreaks. And not only that... some outbreaks don't require bandaging with cort cream and Aquaphor.... they sort of heal themselves. You'll notice the benefits of this soap right away...your skin is NOT left feeling dried out -- it feels nourished and happy -- you won't even need lotion afterwards. I'm 1 month into using this product and can't even believe what this mud has done for me. It's done so much, that I'm back for more!!!Since I can't get to the Dead Sea, I've now brought the Dead Sea to me.......for this little bar of mud is the BEST mud I've ever experienced!!!!!(and perhaps the only mud I've ever really enthusiastically enjoyed)This little bar of mud has spoken so loudly to me that I've gone over to saltworksusa and picked up a 5lb bag of course grain Dead Sea bath salt. Soaking my feet in that is 'over the top' after a long day on my feet at work. And while the salt is fab.... this mud rates 10 stars above and beyond even it. Even a quick wash of my feet with this mud at the end of a day makes my feet feel 30 years younger and less used :)I've told friends about it - they've bought it and they absolutely love it!I've given it as gifts to family... they can't thank me enough! (who gives soap as a gift? I do now! ;)I'm now back for my 3 more bars!I shall NEVER be without my Adovia mud soap!!!!It's now in travel kits, work locker, and 2 locales @ home.Thank you K. Uyehara!!!!Thank you Adovia!!!!Thank you Dead Sea!!!!Thank you all!!!==================================================02/20/2011 UPDATE:Sadly, it appears that those of us who take time to share a great product with the rest of the world has a nasty implication otherwise.While always a fear prior to writing a positive product review here, it appears that positive reviews 'bellow up' those corporate minds who sell these products and hence they decide to greedily increase their prices.In less than 1.5 months, the cost of this little bar of soap has gone up almost threefold. It was $7.99, sadly it is now $19.99.Perhaps it is a misprint? Perhaps due to the Middle East uprising at the moment?I could only hope.Misprint or not.... I refuse to pay my hard-earned money to such greed. I've found another brand and am ordering 3 bars from them. And even with those 3 bars, I am still paying less than today's one bar price from this seller.Try the Jericho brand folks!Haven't rec'd it yet, but if it is as this soap was - what's the difference in a name?I will update after receipt both here and @ Jericho's page.I absolutely refuse to pay $20 for a bar of soap. Funny how soap from the same origin can vary in price, even if due to the Middle East situation at the moment.ADOVIA//resellers ------- I sure hope you are listening! ***********************03/17/2011 UPDATE:I am a busy gal... I've not much time for 'review writing', even moreso for 'updates'... but here I am yet again.Brief, I'll hope this time ;)1st off: It's nice to see that the price came back down (again, hopefully just a misprint prior). But it is exceptionally sad to see how my fears have seemingly proven correct. Too many postive reviews and the price went up (sure, other factors involved, but we all know that's not all to it). Twas $7.99 approx 1.5 months ago, tis now $9 something as I write this update.Something 'sick' has been going around @ work... caught it twice. This 2nd time, my poor little fingers seemed to respond to the 'daily stress of enduring life while sick' more than ever before. PAINFUL sliver-like papercut-like wounds brought me almost to tears at times.This soap IS STILL AND FOREVER SHALL BE MY GOOD FRIEND (I shall never be without it), but of recently, it has now brought only the smallest bit of relief and for a lesser amount of time. Soaking my hands in the 'also-above-mentioned' salt prev purchased has also been of help --but again only a short-term relief (less than 1 hour). Neither helped as it has before but thIS mud HAS AND STILL OFFERS A CALMING RELIEF (albeit only temporarily during outbreaks). The night I bandaged 8 out of 10 fingers before bed..... I'd HAD ENOUGH!!!I now offer this update only in the attempt to help others out there who are painfully living a life that 21st century medicine should have already helped us with otherwise......If I sound like you,if you are at your wit's end,if you're holding back the tears over excruciating painful eczema moments as I have these last 2 weeks,if you don't know what to do now and have finally relinquished yourself to spending half of your life's savings in hypafix tape, gauze/telfa, and cortisone cream....LISTEN ALL & LISTEN NOW...... again ---no miracle, but...Give this a try:DERMAREST Eczema Medicated Lotion(you'll find some of the best prices here on Amazon)Yep, at some time they'll raise the price because of the positive benefits of this product shared here on amazon.... but when utter pain becomes relief, who the heck cares when it can help the poor human who possibly can't live without it!?!Nope, you'll find no review written about it on amazon's product page by me this time around.... but if you found this, then you'll find that hopefully. I personally am keeping the secret safe this time around and allowing others to give it 5 stars elsewhere.The above-mentioned product is A GIFT FROM GOD.The initial application was a slight and somewhat 'sting', but settled down almost immediately. The 'sting' never returned and application #2 was less than 30 minutes following app #1.... anything to help the pain and THIS WAS HELPING THE PAIN! I had applied this stuff probably 4-5 times in less than 2 hours.... just hoping for (and needing) 'actual' relief (no itching, just PAIN).The relief slowly came.... I just kept re-applying it as I deemed necessary.The first night however, I still applied my cort cream and bandages...and then....Two days in and I found incredible relief/healing.Three days in and I was off to work attempting no bandaged fingers.Four days in and the big red welt on my wrist (how'd it go from only fingers to wrist?!?!!) was dissipating.Nothing has completely healed, I've still painful areas... but this outcome FAR OUTDOES any other I've found to date.YEP, I still bandage at night - but not to the same extent as before.Perhaps 2 fingers each hand (or less? depends obviously)... but I'm still a FAR HAPPIER INDIVIDUAL and less painful soul than I was less than 5 days ago.I now carry this stuff with me to work and then back home with me. I ignore the instructions and apply it as I SEE FIT. So far I haven'd died from 'over-application'. The healing in just almost 4 days time is almost what I might call miraculous (albeit not, but still a 'finger-saver') (not to mention a bandaging $$ saver at this point also).The tears too, well, they've been saved for another time.I'm back for 6 more bottles of this stuff.... for home, for work, for travel, for backup. I shall never be without BOTH my mud and THIS DERMAREST STUFF. Adovia Mud IS STILL EXCEPTIONALLY FAB, however not a longterm relief when an outbreak occurs. This DERMAREST Eczema -- egaaads, it's beyond the bee's knees!!! I've really no words for this stuff and am still thanking 'that above' for it. In fact, I'm only back here at amazon to order a bulk 6-pack of the stuff --and only 4 days into using the stuff!I just thought, that along the way --- I'd update my review here in order to include this info to other poor suffering fools like me and perhaps offer even the 'painfully-almost-in-tears' folks out there a second hope. This little bottle has changed my life in just 4 days.... perhaps it can for you too? We are all one humanity. If I can benefit from this little bottle of lotion.... then so shall the rest of you perhaps --future cost increase aside.Obviously, no promise, no guarantee to anyone out there... but when I compared the cost of the ER (with no real feasible relief offered in the long run) to perhaps another 2 weeks or so of trying whatever I could get my hands onto and hope for relief along the way (based only on reviews via the internet).... well, here I am, back again and babbling again, and hopefully offering a bit of hope otherwise to those of us 'infected' with this nasty and ugly condition.So there, whatever! - take that you corporate suits!!!Raise the price! Go ahead... I dare ya!We'll all know why when you do!Yep... you've a product that is exceptional, it sells, and better yet -- sells only to a few special folk in need! Why not gouge our wallets, you'll get richer and well... we'll keep buying what we must ----but hey mr suit - can you spare a dime? I've a family to feed and not much to feed them with.But on the upside mr corporate suit --thank you!You've changed my day-to-day life.While not perfect, and I've still somewhat painful lesions... you've offered me hope and hopeful healing!That oughta be worth a-meal-a-week-or-so out of my paycheck eh?For that, I guess in this day & age that I can't really complain.Please though... all I ask, is that you remember 'that I am not as rich as you' and never will be.While the healing properties may not last (they have so far with me; the lotion is medicated), this stuff DOES work, at least for me, and at least for today.I feel better, and the label ingredients have also talked me into taking Zinc daily (just in case that'll help too)Today is St. Patty's Day...I sip & toast to all of us suffering with this dreaded condition who may have perhaps finally found a possible 'help' to alleviate the pain accompanying our sorry state!Cheers and green beer to all! :)==================================================================================================================

A few months ago I had an allergic reaction to a prescription and my skin was itching so bad I had to put tape over my fingernails or I would have scratched all my skin off in my sleep. Dermatologist recommend this specific brand of soap. It was like magic to stop the itch! I didn't bother to rinse it off, I would just moisten my skin with water and rub the soap on and then leave it - the itch stopped instantly!The skin issue I had is long gone so I no longer "need" this soap but I continue to use it and my skin has never felt better. I leave it on my skin - after a shower or bath I rub the soap bar all over and then get dressed. It doesn't leave any smell or residue and my skin feels soft and hydrated all day!Don't get it in your eyes though, it stings.

I love this product. I have guttate psoriasis on various portions of my body. I read that dead sea mud could help alleviate psoriasis symptoms, so I bought this soap, as well as a dead sea mud shampoo. The shampoo I didn't love - not muddy enough. However, this soap is phenomenal. I have been using it for about 3 weeks. Since that time, I have seen tremendous relief of my symptoms (redness, flaking, size of area affected). I am almost clear. I have to admit, though, that I didn't like the product much at first, because I really felt that it was drying my skin out. I would shower at night, moisturize like crazy, then sleep with the moisturizer on overnight. After a week or so, I noticed that my skin seemed to have adjusted, and I no longer needed to slather on moisturizer. After 3 weeks, I rarely moisturize.One characteristic of the soap that I really like is that it sticks to your skin when you put it on. It leaves a slight film. So, I like to lather up as soon as I get in the shower, then do my other stuff, then rinse the soap off last. I think you get better results that way. I really love it!! I've really seen results.Also, since this works so well, I have purchased a dead sea mud masque, which I apply directly to my scalp with a paint brush, to help treat my scalp psoriasis. So far, really good results. Right now, I'm treating with topical steroids, but I'm adjusting down from an ultra high potency (clobetasol dipropionate) to a medium potency steroid (betamethasone valerate). While the medium potency steroid helps control some of the itch and inflammation, it doesn't completely eliminate my symptoms. I've found that the dead sea mud masque, applied to a wet scalp, for 30 minutes to an hour (put a shower cap on - very messy), is very effective in calming the scalp and gently exfoliating (no flakes). Don't scrub or use your nails. I wash out with Hair One tea tree conditioning cleanser (can buy at Sallys, or use Wen if you can afford it). Great results.