BonLogic - Sandalwood Soap

Sandalwood is a cleansing scent, more masculine than feminine, it has been used for centuries as incense. This aromatic wood is said to have properties that assist in meditation. It helps to create a peaceful space where the mind can relax and has even been stated to have properties which mark it as an aphrodisiac.

 I requested a sample of BonLogic's sandalwood soap because there were two varieties, Sandalwood and Indian Sandalwood. I was curious as to the difference since I'd never seen the distinction before in a product. The scent itself is too masculine for me, I prefer lighter scents and this is a heavily scented soap so I decided to put it in the kitchen. I figured it would be a good place to let the whole family try the soap out.

We discovered some amazing things.

 It's not just great for your hands, it's great for your dishes too. You can get quite a few dishes done with just one swipe of a sponge over the soap. We used it for about two weeks on hands alone before my mom used it on a dish. She found it worked great so we started experimenting.

 What could this soap do in the kitchen? There are a lot of questions that go with that, can it replace standard quality liquid dish soap in all things? What about heavy baked on messes, greasy pots and pans, how about sugar based glazes?

 I did my best to answer these questions. I started out trying it on small things, butter knives, the spoons used for peanut butter, a pan after cooking hamburger in it. I also tried it on a pan my mother used to make a peach glaze, the meat had been cooked in the pan as well so it was greasy and covered in baked sugar. The results, it works on just about everything.

 I found that if I used a little of the liquid soap on the heaviest baked on pans I could use BonLogic's sandalwood soap on the rest and everything came up faster and with less hassles than if I'd used just liquid soap.

 Normally, for these heavy baked on dishes I rinse them and put them in the dishwasher but for this review I washed them by hand. It works great on standard dinner dishes, plates, glasses, silverware, I tried it on a popcorn bowl it worked great.

 I actually prefer it to the liquid soap.

 In regards to amount. It's kind of hard to judge because one is a solid the other is liquid so I based the test on the number of times I had to reapply the soap. The liquid soap had more suds, in fact, it made loads of bubbles. BonLogic didn't make nearly the amount but you could tell there was still soap on the sponge with each swipe over the dish. I washed dishes until I couldn't tell there was soap. I had to go back almost 2x's as much with the liquid soap as with BonLogic's.

 I was concerned about the residue that might be left, scent primarily on the dishes using such a strongly scented soap like BonLogic Sandalwood but I found that the scent doesn't linger particularly long on the hands and lingers for even less time when used on dishes, by the time the dishes were dry they no longer smelled of the soap.

 It doesn't dry out my skin or my mom's we're the type that when doing dishes it's usually a good idea to consider rubber gloves. My skin peels or gets dry at even the slightest bit of abuse from hot dish water and most dish liquids. It is nice to pull my hands out of the hot water dry them off and not have to go find a bottle of lotion. Good for your skin and good for your dishes.

It also works great to remove the scent of garlic and onions from your hands. I rate it an A++++ across the board and would recommend it to anyone who had delicate skin.

My mother and I are already talking about making BonLogic a permanent part of our kitchen.

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