Pre de ProvenceArtisanal Soap Bar, Enriched with Organic Shea Butter, Natural French Skincare, Quad Milled for Rich Smooth Lather, 8.8 Ounce, Rose PetalCompact by Design (Amazon-developed Certification)

For a lemon verbena soap, this is arguably the best option. The scent is pleasant, the lather is rich and the soap leaves your hands feeling clean and smooth. It is also a good value; it is about 1/3 less than L'OCCITANE's similar bar, it is bigger than some other options and it lasts a long time. All-around this is a top-notch choice.

This is my first time buying this scent, but the soap itself is amazing. It lasts awhile depending on the use, but it could be because I usually buy the bigger option. What you see is what you get according to the size, and the aromas are awesome. I've already bought several variations, and I will tell you that most of the soaps have a mid-rough texture that helps with exfoliation. Great products and a lot of variety.

Best soap I've ever used. Back years ago when I had acne this soap cleared up my skin in a matter of weeks. It smells amazing. The lavender is strong and the lather is of high quality fine milled European soaps. The bar is huge too.

I tried this brand some months ago - bought various fragrances - a blue color , very refreshing ; "milk" ; and this one, rasberry. The bars are big and generous, each bar lasts for months. Creates a lush soapy thick lather in seconds, on the netted sponge. Leaves my skin soft and clean - no soap residue. I particularly love the rasberry scented one. True luxury, worth the price ! When the bar gets small, I break it in pieces and use the scraps in my hand soap dish on bathroom sink. Treat yourself to this beautiful soap from France !!

These bars last a really long time. We have been using them as everyday hand soap. They keep everybody's skin on the knuckles, where it belongs, and the value factor is significant when you consider that, so far our first bar has lasted over six months.Maybe we're just not great hand washers? But I don't think so. I think the soap really does last a long time.Smells divine, too - and stays that way.Customer for life!______Update: My family still uses Pre de Provence Artisanal Vegetable Soaps. I have several varieties on Subscribe and Save, and I recently received several bars from Amazon Vine. Now seemed like a good time to give you more thorough impressions of each scent. Starflower, the first bar I reviewed, is a light clean neutral floral fragrance that works very well for soap and hand lotion. It isn't cloying or overpowering.Lemongrass smells like lemon drops. It's sweet and uplifting and has been great in the shower for back to school.White gardenia is heady and sophisticated. It smells great in the shower and, thankfully, does not linger afterward, because, as good as it smells, not everyone wants to smell like that all day.Rose petals smells exactly like roses. Exactly.Jasmine smells like the jasmine grasses of Provence, not like commercial facsimiles of jasmine.It's way better than those and is a warm, calming fragrance. Actually, none of these soaps smells like cheap drugstore perfume. They all smell like actual fruit, flowers, and herbs.Sage is lovely and a tad masculine. It smells like a summer herb garden.And peony smells sweet and fresh and very light.Finally, raspberry smells like raspberry pie. It is a sweet, almost mouthwatering fragrance that my son loves. As with the other vegetable soaps, the smell doesn't linger after the shower, so you do not end up smelling like pie all day.I started using these soaps as handsoaps, but my husband and son both swipe them off the sink and bring them into the shower. They do not last as long in there, but they do last as long as many conventional soaps, any one of which would leave my lupus-cursed skin in tatters.None of these soaps ships with an ingredients list, so I looked them up: Sodium PalmatePalm KernelateWaterGlycerinShea ButterSodium Chloride(Petals or leaves from the botanical the soap is named for)Sodium Hydroxide* this is an ingredient of concern in some jurisdictions - however, the concern level is lowTetrasodium EDTATetrasodium Editronate(sometimes other botanical oils or extracts)Sunflower OilFragrance* this can mean just about anything, but Pre de Provence says that it does not use parabens or paraffins.The fragrance and the botanicals can cause allergic reactions in people who are sensitive. Always pay attention to what your body is telling you. Itching, trouble breathing, sneezing, watering eyes are signs that something is not okay.

Pre de Provence is my go to soap. This one has a gentle, non-offensive fragrance with a rich lather. The bar is so large that I can’t hold it. That could be a negative but, on the plus side, it will last FOREVER.I would look for it in a smaller size in the future, if I live long enough to need a replacement bar.