We're Kind Of Obsessed With Mistral Soaps Right Now
It's time to ditch the Irish Spring, you guys
Perhaps you're at a point in your life where paying over $8 for a single bar of soap seems silly when you can buy, like, a brick of a dozen soaps for $8 at your local bulk-a-go-go warehouse emporium. Listen. Reprioritize, will you? Those soaps are made by robots.
Mistral's gorgeous little Provence-made shea butter soaps are made by hand in the French countryside. This writer has never been to the French countryside, but if it smells like this (and has high-speed internet) then one may consider moving there when one's lease is up. Mistral comes in 30 heavenly scents, and each one begins its pre-soap life as its own fragrance, each more difficult to stop pressing up to your nose than the last. And oh, the lovely, straight-off-of-granny's-vanity nouveau packaging. It's all gorgeous flourishes and florals.
And, they're triple milled, which is why they last forever — Cedarwood Marine, from the men's collection, has been the soap de facto in our shower for well over a month now, and, as if by magic, it looks like it's got weeks left. And each bar is at least 7oz, which means they're about double the size of your average drugstore soap (see — bulky can be better!) Mistral soaps are made from fruit and vegetable oils, so they don't have that icky synthetic feeling, and they leave your skin soft, not all nasty and dry. Black Tea Mandarin, Melon Pear, Sweet Neroli and Garden Mint are faves, Sencha Blossom is almost too adorbs to open, while Black Amber smells like the platonic ideal of a hot guy.
As lame as it sounds, these soaps create an entire shower experience without being irritatingly cutesy or gimmicky. Or, most importantly, super-chemically. Like, you will actually look forward to showering not just to out of sheer necessity (or because you're not gross), but just to use Ciel Bleu. (And seriously, when's the last time you truly gave a shit about soap?)
And Mistral doesn't test on animals. Huge bonus. OK, so step your soap game up, reconsider your beauty budget, and, um, maybe start using baking soda instead as toothpaste or using one-ply. But whatever you do, invest in as many bars of this soap as you can. Bonne douche!
Mistral soap, $8, Mistralsoaps.com
