I started to use activated charcoal soap when my mother bought me some for Christmas one year.
I was impressed by how clean it got my skin whenever I’d use it in the shower.
I immediately went to the store to buy more of it once I had used the entire bottle. Unfortunately, this charcoal soap isn’t the cheapest thing in the world. It’s a phenomenal product, but I’m not completely sure if it’s something I can use on a regular basis. Aside from acting as an abrasive material, charcoal also absorbs odors. There are bags full of activated charcoal that you can purchase for cars, drawers, and other small spaces to reduce odors because they get absorbed into the charcoal. That’s also why charcoal pills are used to absorb poisons and toxins when they are accidentally ingested by a human or animal. I even found air conditioner filters that were sprayed with small crystals of activated charcoal. Originally these filters were phenomenal products, and they would actively reduce the pet odors in my home. Unfortunately, the production standards for these filters reduced drastically with time. The last time I bought a charcoal air conditioner filter, it shedded in my air conditioner and got small charcoal particles all over my evaporator coil. That forced me to call my HVAC company to send out a technician to clean the inside of the air handler. It cost me $200 at the end of the day. That’s an expensive blunder over a $15 HVAC filter. Needless to say, I quit buying charcoal coated HVAC filters.