Review (3/5): Average soap bar - mix of natural ingredients and harsher surfactants...
I have kind of mixed feelings about this soap. I love neem and I love natural essential oil based soaps. The design of this soap was actually really cool and I wasn't expecting it. It has a cool floral print with a lot of neem bark bits (I think so anyway?) that really help with exfoliation. The smell is a bit funky but it also is clear to me that it's only using neem and those essential oils listed, neem is a funky smell. I do feel like the feel was nice and it lathered and cleaned well.
However I think for the price the ingredients are kind of junky. You can see that they make a big deal about it having shea butter, etc, but that's way down on the list of ingredients. This is mainly a glycerin based soap with a harsh surfactant/foaming agent in it, Sodium Stearate, as well as a lot of other ingredients that I haven't seen in a long time in a natural soap bar. I didn't have a bad reaction to it and it doesn't have sulfates but I try to stay away from foaming agents and given the price I don't understand why they are trying to play both sides by acting like this is an "all natural" soap when it's a more traditional soap with shea butter, neem, and other stuff added. It's true though that glycerin based soaps can be less harsh on the skin but even the glycerin based soaps I've used don't have all these extra ingredients in them.
I don't think I'd buy this again, although my husband had no problem with it - check out Neem Tree Farms for legit neem soap.