fine but the container has flaws
The gel soap seems fine - the cedar scent is strong but nice and not flowery (which is what I wanted) but the container has some serious flaws.<br />The bottle is attractive made of smooth metal - so when it's wet it becomes very slippery (which is the normal status when taking a shower).  However, when I pressed the button to dispense the soap - nothing happened - no soap came out but the button didn't really depress, so I thought it must be locked and I'd need to twist it to unlock it.<br />Wrestling with this slippery wet bottle with my wet hands didn't seem to be working - I couldn't feel any give or clicks as I tried to twist the very small nozzle button in the wet - and without my glasses on I couldn't see if there were any markers or arrow directions....but I braced the slippery bottle as firmly as I could and kept trying until I suddenly noticed a stream of foamy soap coming out and dropping to the floor of the tub.<br />As I proceeded with my shower, I continued having challenges.  This bottle has a VERY firm button.  It wasn't actually locked, but my small 54 yr old female hands didn't have the strength to manage it at all (one handed).  Especially as the bottle was wet and smooth and dang slippery!  I ended up having to brace the bottle with one hand and push the button with the other - which left me with no palm available to catch the actual soap coming out.  I wasted a bit of soap before I figure out I needed to twist the hand holding bottle to catch the stream of soap which let me catch about half.<br />There's definitely a design flaw in choosing that bottle and button dispenser!!  It's very attractive but the tension spring for the dispenser button is crazy strong.  Maybe they took the idea of masculine soap too far and have chosen bottles that can only be used by men with stronger hands too?  Added with the smooth but hard bottle (metal doesn't provide any give when you squeeze hard) that becomes super slippery when it's wet (which is the expectation when taking a bath or shower) this doesn't seem very well thought out.  Bad operations and marketing choices!
Rating: 2 stars