Dove Beauty Bar: a Guru Score of 74% from 11 skincare experts

What the experts use it for.

The concerns the experts tie this product to, in their own words. Paid and founder takes don't count.

Eczema1 expert

“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.”

Dr Dray, watch at 4:05

Skin barrier support1 expert

“They have conditioning ingredients and a pH that's more amenable to the health of the moisture barrier.”

Dr Dray, watch at 4:45

What the gurus are saying.

Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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Dimma Umeh

544k subs

~Yay

"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."

Abbey Yung

886k subs

~Yay

"This is my favorite brush cleaner, but it also works great for cleansing both your face and your body."

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"I'm just turning sponsorships down because I'm not impressed by the products, and that was definitely the case when a very popular makeup brand decided to dip their toes into the skincare pond. I try really hard not to judge a book by its cover, because I did that for a long, long time. For example, I would look at Dove Beauty Bar sitting"

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"I think that's really stop trying to make people feel bad for what they are or are not able to afford, it's gross. But before I spiral down that rabbit hole, I will say there are exceptions. Products like K18 and Olaplex that contain patented technology are obviously not something you're going to find a replica of at the drugstore. Dove Beauty Bar, though, is a different story."

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"This is my favorite brush cleaner, but it also works great for cleansing both your face and your body."

Dr Dray

2.69M subs

~Yay

"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."

All 10 takes from Dr Dray

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"If you are allergic to fragrance, no worries. You have the Dove original Beauty Bar. This is great. You can use this on the face. I mean, it's underrated."

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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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"Use a cleansing bar like Dove or a body wash rather than a true soap like Ivory soap or Irish Spring, for example, as these cleansing bars and body washes are not only formulated with moisturizing ingredients but also are formulated to be much gentler on the skin."

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"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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"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."

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"A classic example of a syndet is the Dove Beauty Bar. Syndets are more neutral to acidic pH, so they don't disrupt the pH of your skin barrier, and a lot of them also have ingredients added that can be deposited on the skin surface for a moisturizing benefit."

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"Dove has always had their classic Beauty Bar. They make one that's free of fragrance. It's moisturizing, it's not drying. Definitely a good option."

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"Dove beauty bars are formulated to be used on the face. They have conditioning ingredients and a pH that's more amenable to the health of the moisture barrier. [...] They're a fine option, not any better or worse than a gentle cleanser."

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"If you use a Dove Beauty Bar, it's fine for your face because it's a cleansing bar with moisturizing ingredients."

James Welsh

1.58M subs

~Yay

"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."

Darnell Cox | 50+ Healthy Aging Expert

55k subs

~Yay

"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."

208SkinDoc

2.10M subs

~Nay

"I feel like that soap is going to dry you out leaving it on for 30 minutes"

Caroline Hirons

250k subs

~Yay

"She would wash her face with a bar of Dove or something I mean her skin was great"

The Style and Beauty Doctor

222k subs

~Yay

"Many people don't know that there's a huge difference between synthetic [...] beauty bars, like your Dove Beauty bars, and soap. If you see a Beauty Bar it never has the word soap on it. That's because soap by definition is when you use vegetable oils and combine with a base solution like lye, and then in a process called saponification it forms the soap. Synthetic or beauty bars don't meet that definition of soap, but they're much gentler on skin."

Nipun Kapur

413k 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."

The Budget Dermatologist

725k subs

~Yay

"Dove Beauty Bar uses Dey technology, which combines a gentle cleanser called sodium laurel isothionate, a mild synthetic surfactant compared to the harsher surfactants found in ordinary soaps. Because of this Dey technology, this Beauty Bar is able to create a creamy mild lather that doesn't strip your skin while it deposits skin natural moisturizers as you cleanse, so your skin is left feeling soft and hydrated."

What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

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Sun protection is the best evidenced way to slow visible ageing, and the filters are what does the work. Mineral and chemical filters both protect when a product is applied thickly enough and often enough, which is where most people fall short rather than on the choice of filter.

Source: DermNet

Frequently asked.

What is Dove Beauty Bar?

A gentle cleansing bar formulated with moisturizing cream that cleanses without disrupting skin's natural pH, suitable for face and body.

Is Dove Beauty Bar worth it?

The gurus mostly approve it, but with enough reservations to keep it in the middle at a Guru Score of 74%.

What is Dove Beauty Bar's Guru Score?

Dove Beauty Bar holds a Guru Score of 74%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 11 expert reviewers we have collected.