Dove Beauty Bar: a Guru Score of 77% from 6 skincare experts

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What the gurus are saying.

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✓Approved

"I'm kind of at a stage now where I'm trying the different scents that they have. Typically for the longest time my go-to scent was the original one, the white and blue one. Very recently I tried the pink one, loved it. Went to the store recently, saw that they had the green one, the refreshing one. I got that as well. Dove also not as expensive as even the Dove shower gels."

Mixed Makeup

1.47M subs

✓Approved

"I use Dove and I love it. It's so good for the skin. Like I've always used it and I loved it and I just feel like my tan really likes the hydration that it gives from that."

Dr Dray

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✓Approved

"The nice thing about the Dove Beauty Bar is that if you like the scent, provided you're not allergic to it, that's what's in the original, but the sensitive one is fragrance-free. This is gentle enough to adequately cleanse, but not disrupt skin's outermost pH to a point where it causes the enzymes there to be haphazard in terms of their function and not help with barrier integrity the way they need to. It also leaves behind moisturizing ingredients, so it cleanses and moisturizes at the same time. I highly recommend this. It's great for you, and you can also use it to wash your hands. These work really well for hand washing. Keep your eyes peeled because the Dove fragrance-free Beauty Bar often goes on sale for Black Friday."

All 4 takes from Dr Dray

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"This rinses off the skin really well. They have a 16 pack here for $18.49, so that's about 30, 31 cents per ounce. If you are not allergic to fragrance and you like the smell of Dove, you can also get the scented version."

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"A cleansing bar, like a Beauty Bar, it's mild and meant to remove dirt, bacteria, dead skin cells, but have minimal impact on the pH of your skin so as to not disrupt the skin barrier. It's a myth that these mild cleansing bars don't actually get you clean. They do. They have a surfactant in them that goes to work to take off that stuff and let it rinse down the drain. You don't need to add in an antimicrobial in there."

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"Traditional soaps are actually pretty harsh on the skin. They're very drying. They disrupt the acidic pH of the skin barrier and that can lead to enhanced irritancy, redness. The Dove Beauty Bar is enriched with moisturizers. It was formulated with a creamy moisturizing cream. The Dove Beauty Bar does have a signature fragrance, but they make a fragrance-free version. This can be used to wash the face, the body. If you have eczema growing up, if you ever saw a dermatologist, there's a chance that maybe they told you you should be washing with Dove soap."

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"The nice thing about the Dove Beauty Bar is that if you like the scent, provided you're not allergic to it, that's what's in the original, but the sensitive one is fragrance-free. This is gentle enough to adequately cleanse, but not disrupt skin's outermost pH to a point where it causes the enzymes there to be haphazard in terms of their function and not help with barrier integrity the way they need to. It also leaves behind moisturizing ingredients, so it cleanses and moisturizes at the same time. I highly recommend this. It's great for you, and you can also use it to wash your hands. These work really well for hand washing. Keep your eyes peeled because the Dove fragrance-free Beauty Bar often goes on sale for Black Friday."

James Welsh

1.58M subs

✓Approved

"It wasn't just another soap. It was a gentler alternative that still cleaned your body and killed bacteria whilst also moisturising your skin at the same time. And although that sounds so basic now, it was actually the first of its kind and it helped position Dove as something closer to a beauty brand than a typical soap brand. They really leaned into that moisturising aspect of the product with all their ads focusing on the fact that their bars contained a quarter moisturising cream. Dove was a modern, scientific and aimed at women specifically as a way of caring for themselves. Fans of the brand also love the strong fragrance that Dove added to their beauty bars."

Darnell Cox | 50+ Healthy Aging Expert

54k subs

✓Approved

"I'm not using any sort of fancy soap or anything like that. I'm just using a Dove bar soap and scrubbing my skin. That's how you get it to where your body and your skin is behaving the way that it did when it was younger. We had better circulation when it was younger. Our cell turnover was better when we were younger."

Nipun Kapur

401k subs

✓Mixed

"The good part about Dove is that it's not drying, so even now I don't feel my skin is drying. It just feels like a regular face wash. It has these little mini beads and maybe that's why they call it exfoliating, and it is exfoliating, but it doesn't feel anything special."

Common questions

Frequently asked.

What is Dove Beauty Bar?

A mild cleansing bar formulated with moisturizing cream, designed to gently cleanse the skin without disrupting its natural pH or drying it out.

Is Dove Beauty Bar worth it?

Mostly yes. 5 of the 6 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 77%.

What is Dove Beauty Bar's Guru Score?

Dove Beauty Bar holds a Guru Score of 77%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 6 independent expert reviewers we have collected.