Boston - March 13, 2007

Clean Getaway

Cor Soap

When it comes to skin care, your face has gotten the Goldilocks treatment.

From pasty creams to homemade avocado masks, the results are all over: too flaky, too tight, too slick, too shiny. The perfect skin potion proved elusive.

Until now. Plank, the Boston brand that also puts out digital-image yoga mats, gracefully stumbled upon a keeper: soap with silver.

Cor looks like an ordinary bar of glycerin soap, but it’s made of silver, four types of collagen, and a silk protein. Basically, in one little rubdown it supposedly suffocates bacteria, evens skin tone, balances oil levels, maintains moisture, and provides three hours of sun protection.

It lathers easily, tingles slightly, and works on every skin type.

And even though you’ll pay the price for perfection, we can’t help but say it:

This one feels just right.

Available at Making Faces, 15 Walnut Road, Hamilton (978-233-4112); online at blissworld.com.