I make my own soap! I don't do cold process, I just don't have enough room to feel safe having lye around. I've been selling it and I'm getting a lot of people with sensitive skin wanting to try it. So far, no complaints. So many things can give you dry skin, from how much water you drink to how dry the air is, and soap alone won't fix that, but it could help it from getting worse. For me, no matter how "gentle" of a soap I bought, I'd always come out of the shower with tight skin, itching, and with hives all over my chest. Since making my own, I haven't had that problem. Plus you have total control over what goes into it. I've also found that I can't use orange oil on my face, so I can avoid putting that into my soap. If you compare the price of buying supplies to make your own natural soap to buying the same amount of natural soap in the store, making your own is totally the way to go.