Buy Green: Bar Soap

Bar Soap From Save Your World

Why We Like It: Bar soap from Save Your World uses organic, sustainably grown Yerba Maté and aloe vera for exfoliating and soothing, while the production methods retain all of the natural oils and glycerin for moisturizing.

Eco-Factor: Along with the all natural ingredients, essential oils produce three subtle scents?Oasis Fruit, Rainforest, and Regal Blossom. Plus Save Your World offers a unique bonus feature: With every purchase, the company promises to lease an acre of rainforest for one year, saving it from deforestation.

Ingredient to Know: Yerba Maté, a native rainforest plant, contains all the major vitamins?including A, C, E, B1, and B2?as well as nutrient-rich amino acids and caffeine for antioxidants.

Where: Save Your World

How Much: $5-$9

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Body Bar From Nui

Why We Like It: Certified-organic body bars from Nui get their intense moisturizing benefits from virgin coconut oil found in Fiji, while tropical scents like Lemongrass, Lavender, and Lime and Coconut bring the islands to your bath.

Eco-Factor: The Australian company promises its products are made without synthetic chemicals, ammonia, or sulfates, and boasts that they're "unabashedly tested on humans." The bars are also handmade under Fair Trade guidelines—giving small island communities more economic opportunity?according to a process based on traditional soap-making.

Ingredient to Know: Known as "The Tree of Life" in traditional tropical communities, the coconut plant produces an oil that's 92 percent fatty acids?which nourish skin.

Where: Nui

How Much: $6

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Natural Soaps From A Wild Soap Bar

Why We Like It: A Wild Soap Bar Natural Soaps are handmade in Texas from cold-pressed olive oil (no heat means no breakdown of the moisturizing oils and less energy consumption) mixed with coconut, organic palm, high oleic sunflower, and castor oils?and varieties range from classics like honey oat and wildflower to the more unusual horsemint and prickly pear.

Eco-Factor: Those scents?and others, including blue bonnet, mesquite, mustang grape, sassafras, and sunflower?take advantage of natural and organic herbs, botanicals and flower to give the soap different properties—from an energizing minty scent to a spicy cinnamon exfoliation. The soaps are also entirely biodegradable, free of synthetics, and packaged without excessive wrappings.

Ingredient to Know: Though each variety of soap has its own key ingredient (see them all on the site), they all need palm oil for durability. A Wild Soap Bar uses certified organic palm oil to protect the rainforest.

Where: A Wild Soap Bar

How Much: $6

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Natural Moisturizing Body Bar From Method

Why We Like It: Method's natural moisturizing body bar, made with olive oil and vitamin E, leaves skin soft?and softly scented, with light, natural fragrances including olive leaf, white tea, and almond butter.

Eco-Factor: Method's home and body cleaners are reliably effective?without the parabens, synthetic chemicals, and EDTA that wind up in traditional soaps?and even the box is made from 80 percent recycled paper.

Ingredient to Know: High amounts of monounsaturated fatty acids and vitamin E make olive oil a key component for healthy, moisturized skin?plus it contains the anti-aging/anti-inflammatory compound oleocanthal.

Where: Method

How Much: $10

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Bar Soap From Just Soap

Why We Like It: Just Soap bar soaps are made using the cold batch process?so each bar holds onto the nourishing, moisturizing oils and natural glycerin?and are cured for two months to make sure they're hard enough for daily use.

Eco-Factor: At Just Soap, even the stirring is energy efficient: Founder Frederick Breeden developed a bicycled-powered blender that mixes all the soap ingredients. Finished products are biodegradable, cruelty-free, and simply wrapped.

Ingredient to Know:> Essential Oils

How Much: $3

Photo courtesy of Just Soap