Which black soap?

[Uumellmahaye]

Read the thread on switching from shower gel to soap with interest, and saw several posters recommended black soap.

For those that use it, which black soap? There seem to be lots to choose from when googling. Please post links!

Thanks in advance

I use Akoma black soap, which is vegan and made with coconut oil rather than the palm oil that many others are. I get it on amazon. It's lovely stuff.
I have heard that some of the cheaper black soaps have dyes in.

Thanks @SealSong just ordered from Amazon and it's on way

In the old days soap used to be made from lye produced from ashes. If this wasn't filtered properly, the lye would be full of fine ash and the soap would be black.

A very, very basic soap can even be made by adding ashes to animal or solid vegetable fat and just mashing together. It will be vile and greasy to use, and is of interest only to extreme survivalists! African Black Soap was originally made this way.

A modern 'black soap' such as Akoma has some ash (burnt cocoa pods) added to reproduce this traditional product. However the soap itself is made from coconut and shea butter. Coconut is listed as first ingredient. High coconut oil soaps will be very cleansing, possibly a little drying and if the percentage is high enough, the unique property of sudsing in sea water.