Naturium

 The Revealer Sulfur Body Wash

Most Helpful Critical Review

Insanely difficult to wash off!!

TLDR: I was excited for this, but it leaves a residue that is *incredibly* difficult to fully rinse off or even wash off. I had to use multiple soaps and finally *shampoo* to get the residue off, and my skin is not happy 🥲 I am a big fan of Naturium body washes for my sensitive skin and was excite...d to try this sulfur one. Sulfur has a lot of anti-inflammatory properties, and I'd used sulfur spot treatments just fine in the past. Naturally, I expected a sulfur smell while using a sulfur product. While in the shower, the smell was not nearly as strong as I anticipated, actually. I lathered not even a full pump (sulfur can be drying, this was just a test run) over my arms, torso, and back, and let it sit for a minute or two for the sulfur to work its magic. It spread easily and felt pretty nice, like it would be surprisingly moisturizing. I always thoroughly rinse products in the shower to avoid irritation from surfactants / actives residue. This is where my problems started. As I tried to rinse it off, I immediately noticed a residue. Like a slight tackiness to my still-wet skin but somehow kinda silty? Rubbing and rinsing, more rubbing and rinsing—it wouldn't come off. I didn't think too much of it then since, again, I wasn't overwhelmed with a sulfur smell, had just rinsed very thoroughly, and was about to moisturize anyway. However. (This is where I'm going to sound crazy.) After I got into bed, there was no way I could fall asleep: the sulfur had somehow come back with a vengeance. Like it was seeping out of my pores or something. It absorbed into my pjs and sheets, I couldn't escape it. It began to irritate my eyes and throat—and that isn't something I'll blame on the product, I *am* sensitive to some "fumes." My issue with the product is that I'd already rinsed and rinsed after not even using a full pump spread over a large area, yet I had to get out of bed to take *another* shower and soap up multiple times with multiple different products to get this sulfur residue off me!! I thought surely a second shower and a fresh set of pjs would be enough for me to get some sleep. Wrong. 😭 After even more tossing and turning in this STILL-irritating smell and STILL-weird residue on my skin, I got up for my THIRD shower of the night. Insanity. My last resort at whatever time it was, was to literally use shampoo to get it off me. I had to take two more showers and use *shampoo* all over my poor skin to fully remove a body wash????? What on earth?? Barely any sleep, super irritated eyes, nose, and throat (I had to take allergy meds), already sensitive skin now dry as a desert from having to scrub and scrub with sulfatey shampoo. And again, I'm not blaming Naturium for the fact that my respiratory system is apparently sensitive to sulfur now, I'm only upset about how WILDLY difficult it was to finally get the product OFF my skin! I always spot test products before I use them all over and had no issue when I washed my hands with the body wash over eight hours before using it in the shower, so I thought I was all good. Nope. And I don't even have hard water! (Hard water *can* make products a lot more difficult to fully rinse off.) Maybe it's because I had the body wash in contact with my skin just long enough to be used as a hand soap rather than the extra minute I let it soak in while in the shower???? Truly couldn't tell you. …I'm sleep deprived writing this. At least this happened on a weekend?? I dunno, proceed with caution, I guess 😭 I'll have to find the time to return this since I'm neverrrr using it again.