Beer soap is a wonderful cleansing, lathering, and moisturizing experience...and a beer lover's dream come true! Since beer is made with hops, the properties and benefits of hops become a skin blessing when used as the base for soap. Hops is known as a relaxing herb and that relaxing affect stays with the bar after going through the soap making process. Try soaping up after a hectic, stressful day. Takes relaxing with your favorite brew to a different level, doesn't it? Other benefits to Hops: soothes irritated skin; contains polyphenols thought to account for its anti-bacterial and preservative effects (beer's long life); contains skin-softening amino acids. Depending on the brew, the amount and types of hops, malts, grains, fruits and nuts used in brewing the beer, each has its own signature light scent with a subtle, sweet undernote compliments of all of those beer ingredients. Many of this herb's properties and benefits become a skin cleansing asset when added to soap. Oats, barley and wheat are mineral-rich grains that add health promoting benefits to the soap.