The Black Stuff Black Stout Natural Handmade Irish Soap
A body wash with 17 ingredients, including exfoliants.
Overview
What it is
Body wash with 17 ingredients that contains exfoliants
Cool Features
It is reef safe
Suited For
It has ingredients that are good for fighting acne, dry skin, oily skin, reducing pores, scar healing and better texture
Free From
It doesn't contain any harsh alcohols, parabens, silicones or sulfates
Fun facts
The Black Stuff is from Ireland. This product is used in 8 routines created by our community.
We independently verify ingredients and our claims are backed by peer-reviewed research. Does this product need an update? Let us know.
What's inside
Ingredients List
Sodium Olivate
CleansingSodium Cocoate
Cleansing
Sodium Palmate
CleansingSodium Shea Butterate
Cleansing
Beer
Skin ConditioningGlycerin
Humectant
Sodium Castorate
EmulsifyingAbies Sibirica Oil
Masking
Kaolin
Abrasive
Avena Sativa Kernel Flour
Abrasive
Avena Sativa Kernel Meal
Abrasive
Piper Nigrum Fruit Oil
Masking
Cedrus Atlantica Bark Oil
Masking
Pumice
Abrasive
Mel
EmollientEugenia Caryophyllus Bud Oil
Masking
Sodium Chloride
MaskingKey Ingredients
Benefits
Concerns
Ingredients Explained
Sodium olivate is created by saponifying olive oil. It is a sodium salt of olive oil and has cleansing properties.
Saponification is the chemical process of turning fats/oils into soap by reacting them with an alkali, typically sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide.
Sodium cocoate is a salt created by saponifying coconut oil. It has cleansing and emulsifying properties.
As a cleansing agent, this ingredient helps reduce the surface tension of dirt, sebum, and other residue in skin and hair. This makes them easier to be rinsed away with water.
Sodium Palmate is a surfactant and used to saponify fatty acids. It can be derived from palm oil or synthetically created.
As a surfactant, it helps lift dirt and oil off the skin to be cleansed.
Sodium Palmate is also used during the soap-making process to saponify fatty acids. This helps soap creates bubbles without leaving residue on the skin.
This ingredient is sometimes called saponified palm oil.
Learn more about Sodium PalmateSodium Shea Butterate isn't fungal acne safe.
We don't have a description for Beer yet.
Glycerin (or glycerol) is a compound naturally found in your skin. It's a powerhouse humectant that pulls water into the stratum corneum.
Topically, glycerin does several things at once:
Your skin makes glycerin on its own (mostly from sebaceous oil breakdown) and shuttles it to your outermost layer of skin, or your epidermis, via aquaporin-3.
Aquaporin-3 is a transporter that is essential for normal skin hydration, elasticity, and repair. Interestingly, mice lacking in AQP3 have dry and less elastic skin that can be fully corrected with glycerin.
This ingredient is non-irritating, plays well with almost every ingredient, and works across all skin types. Typical use is anywhere between 3-10% but can go up to 79% in some leave-on products.
Just know very high concentrations (>40%) can feel tacky in low humidity.
Glycerin is the name for this ingredient in American English. British English uses Glycerol/Glycerine.
Learn more about GlycerinSodium Castorate s created when castor oil is saponified.
Abies Sibirica Oil is a fragrance and is an oil.
Kaolin is a clay. It is used for oil control and to help minimize pores. Like other clays, kaolin has the ability to absorb excess sebum or oil. This can help clean out pores and mattify the skin.
Some types of kaolin may have exfoliating properties. When water is added to kaolin, it becomes a paste with small abrasive particles.
Most kaolin is a white color, but may be pink/orange/red depending on where it comes from.
The name 'kaolin' comes from a Chinese village named 'Gaoling'. Kaolin clay comes from rocks rich in kaolinite. Kaolinite, the mineral, has a silicate layered structure. Kaolinite is formed from chemical weathering of aluminum siilicate minerals.
Besides skincare, kaolin is commonly used to make glossy paper, in ceramics, toothpaste, and as medicine to soothe stomach issues.
Learn more about KaolinOatmeal flour is created by grinding down the kernels of oats. Oatmeal helps sooth, hydrate, and protect the skin.
Oatmeal kernel flour has abrasive, or exfoliating, properties.
Learn all about the skin benefits of colloidal oatmeal here.
Learn more about Avena Sativa Kernel FlourAlso known as "oatmeal". This ingredient is made by grinding down the kernels of oat.
According to INCI, or International Nomenclature Cosmetic Ingredient, this ingredient has abrasive properties and functions as a mild exfoliant.
If you are looking for skin soothing oat - check out Avena Sativa Kernel Extract.
Learn more about Avena Sativa Kernel MealThe fruit of the black pepper tree is called peppercorn.
This ingredient comes from the bark of the Cedarwood tree.
Though this oil exhibits antibacterial and antioxidant activity, it is also contains skin-irritating fragrances such as limonene.
In 2023, it was listed as an EU known-allergen.
Learn more about Cedrus Atlantica Bark OilPumice is an exfoliant.
We don't have a description for Mel yet.
Eugenia Caryophyllus Bud Oil is a fragrance and is an oil. It can cause irritation.
Chances are, you eat sodium chloride every day. Sodium Chloride is also known as table salt. This ingredient has many purposes in skincare: thickener, emulsifier, and exfoliator.
You'll most likely find this ingredient in cleansers where it is used to create a gel-like texture. As an emulsifier, it also prevents ingredients from separating.
You might see people debate whether Sodium Chloride is comedogenic, but there actually haven't been any comedogenic tests done on it. Either way, the overall formulation of a product matters a lot more than any single ingredient.
You might see this ingredient used in scrubs as a primary exfoliating ingredient.
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The Black Stuff is a Irish brand
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